Advanced Laboratory Technician - In vivo Research

Job title: Advanced Laboratory Technician – In vivo Research

Department: Global Research

Location: Måløv, Denmark 

Your impact begins here

You will support in building the experimental foundation of a new interdisciplinary team in Global Research, established to generate and validate innovative therapeutic concepts in cardiometabolic disease and healthspan. As one of two Advanced Laboratory Technicians in In vivo Research, you will turn scientific questions into well-executed rodent studies and shape the team’s capabilities from the start. Your work helps bring new projects into the early discovery pipeline.

What you will bring

You are a trained laboratory technician, hold a relevant technical qualification, or bring equivalent practical experience.

• Strong hands-on experience in rodent research, including mouse and rat handling, dosing and sampling.
• Relevant training and authorisation for the animal procedures you will undertake, as applicable.
• A careful, organised approach to experimental work, documentation and data quality.
• The ability to work independently within agreed study plans and to coordinate with colleagues.
• Curiosity, practical problem-solving skills and an interest in learning new methods.
• Confidence in sharing observations, suggesting improvements and asking questions.
• The ability to communicate and document your work in English.

Useful, but not essential:

• Metabolic phenotyping, including food intake, body composition, glucose regulation or indirect calorimetry.
• Behavioural testing and neuroscience-related experimental methods.
• Rodent surgery and postoperative care.
• Tissue dissection, sample processing and ex vivo methods.
• In vitro assays supporting pharmacological or mechanistic studies.
• Establishing new laboratory methods or workflows.

You are not expected to bring experience in every technique. We welcome complementary profiles.

What you will do

Working closely with scientists and fellow laboratory technicians, you will contribute to studies that test new ideas and help set up how the team works in the lab. More specifically, you will:

• Plan, coordinate and perform mouse and rat pharmacology experiments, including dosing, observations, sampling and relevant physiological measurements.
• Perform metabolic phenotyping and contribute to behavioural studies, according to your expertise and training.
• Collect and process biological samples for ex vivo and laboratory analyses.
• Contribute to developing, optimising and troubleshooting experimental methods.
• Record, quality-check and organise experimental data, and flag observations that may affect interpretation or later studies.
• Bring practical expertise to study planning and to discussions of results.
• Help establish laboratory workflows, maintain equipment and coordinate materials and study activities, working to relevant procedures, animal welfare requirements and the principles of replacement, reduction and refinement.

Depending on your experience, you may also contribute to rodent surgery, specialised neuroscience methods or in vitro assays. Training will support the introduction of additional techniques.

Who you will work with

You will join a new interdisciplinary team in Global Research, part of Research & Development, working alongside scientists and laboratory colleagues with expertise in physiology, pharmacology, neuroscience and molecular innovation. Scientific and technical colleagues plan experiments together, deliver them together and interpret the observations together, so your view counts at every step. The team is headed by Christoffer Clemmensen.

You will also work with animal facility staff and laboratory specialists across the organisation.

What you can expect here

You will help shape the experimental practices of a new team. Your technical judgement, observations and suggestions will be valued as part of the research process, and you will be trusted to work independently within agreed study plans.

Salary and Benefits: The Annual Base Salary ranges from 499,600.00 to 734,400.00 DKK, corresponding to the level of the position. The placement within the salary range will be assessed during the recruitment process based on the candidate’s skills, competencies, knowledge, and relevant experience. 

A competitive benefits package is offered, including a pension scheme (currently 13% employer contribution and 5% employee contribution) in accordance with the applicable Collective Agreement for Salaried Employees (Indutriens Funktionæroverenskomst or “IFO”).

Benefits package also include a free choice account of currently 10% and 4% holiday allowance.

Start now

Your impact begins today. If you are ready to turn scientific questions into well-executed studies and help build a new team’s lab from the ground up, apply for the Advanced Laboratory Technician – In vivo Research role by 22 November 2026. We review applications on an ongoing basis, so apply as soon as you can.

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.