Fragment-based job listings

The fragment-based community is very diverse, with practitioners coming from biochemistry, biophysics, chemistry, computational chemistry, and many other disciplines. Communicating job openings to such a fragmented community can be difficult, but we think Practical Fragments can provide a common place for employers who want to build up fragment expertise of any flavor. If you have an opening you are trying to fill, please add it as a comment to this post. These comments will then be listed in the “Job Openings” link under the “Links of Utility” heading on the right side of the page, so they will always be easy to find.

(Note: this is for positions in fragment-based drug discovery only. There is also a LinkedIn group that lists jobs with a broader but overlapping focus.)

Hidden Talent Pool

I have a question for the followes/readers here. Is there a hidden talent pool of recent Ph.Ds who have training in FBDD and can immediately walk into a pharmaceutical company? I am aware of two companies that had openings for FBDD people. Both companies wanted only freshly minted Ph.Ds or just post-doctoral experience. There is a big and deep (and obviously more expensive) pool of FBDD out there who would jump for these jobs.

I was also under the impression that industrial post-docs were largely a thing of the past. So, two questions: 1. are there academic programs/labs who are specifically training NMR-FBDD people, and more in general FBDD practitioners at all? 2. If not, are jobs like these a way for management to dip their toe in the water without actually resourcing FBDD efforts?