# Biologists / life scientists

Organizations whose current-needs assessments include **biology-life-sciences**. These are inferred from public information, not confirmed job openings; verify directly. Needs unreviewed for 6+ months are flagged.

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- **[3Helix](/pages/3helix.md)** · `https://greatutah.work/pages/3helix.md` · Salt Lake City · Website: https://www.3helix.com — Likely needs include peptide chemists, drug-delivery engineers, diagnostic assay developers, and business-development operators who can license CHP outside BASF's personal-care exclusivity. Manufacturing and regulatory expertise matter if the company advances imaging or therapeutic IND programs. *(reviewed 2026-07-14)*
- **[Ancestry](/pages/ancestry.md)** · `https://greatutah.work/pages/ancestry.md` · Lehi · Careers: https://careers.ancestry.com/ — Likely needs include engineers for search, data pipelines, record ingestion, identity resolution, and machine learning; product leaders who understand subscription retention without degrading trust; historical-record specialists and professional genealogists; privacy and genetic-data counsel; and security/compliance operators who can handle sensitive consumer data. Ancestry is a plausible fit for… *(reviewed 2026-07-14)*
- **[ARUP Laboratories](/pages/arup-laboratories.md)** · `https://greatutah.work/pages/arup-laboratories.md` · Salt Lake City · Careers: https://www.aruplab.com/careers — **No specific openings are established from the captures.** The About copy names medical directors, subspecialty pathologists, clinical and variant scientists, and genetic counselors as consultation experts **already on staff**, not as vacancies ([official site](/pages/arup-laboratories-official-website.md)); its only hiring language is the generic "Explore exciting career opportunities across a … *(reviewed 2026-08-11)*
- **[Atavistik Bio](/pages/atavistik-bio.md)** · `https://greatutah.work/pages/atavistik-bio.md` · Salt Lake City · Careers: https://jobs.lever.co/atavistik-bio — Hiring skews chemical sciences and clinical (DMPK, biostatistics) and is Cambridge-based, not Utah-based. Broader fit still includes medicinal chemists, structural biologists, allostery-focused biochemists, computational chemists at the ML/structure intersection, clinical development leaders for oncology and rare-disease trials, and manufacturing/CMC capacity as programs advance. Later-stage tria… *(reviewed 2026-07-14)*
- **[Batu Biologics](/pages/batu-biologics.md)** · `https://greatutah.work/pages/batu-biologics.md` · Salt Lake City — The University of Utah's current startup portfolio marks Batu Biologics active, but no public openings were found. At its reported preclinical stage, the smallest supported contributor needs are oncology researchers for mechanism and preclinical validation and clinical-regulatory expertise for an eventual IND path. Funding needs may also exist, but no current financing request was verified. *(reviewed 2026-08-11)*
- **[BioEnergenix](/pages/bioenergenix.md)** · `https://greatutah.work/pages/bioenergenix.md` · Salt Lake City · Website: https://healthcare.utah.edu/press-releases/2014/07/partnership-spinoff-company-may-soon-lead-clinical-trials-of-metabolic — Cannot be stated reliably without current company contact. If still active, a PASK program would likely need medicinal chemistry, metabolic-disease clinical development, regulatory affairs, and capital for IND-enabling work and Phase 1/2 trials. If inactive or absorbed, contributors should verify status before investing time. *(reviewed 2026-07-14)*
- **[BioFire Diagnostics](/pages/biofire-diagnostics.md)** · `https://greatutah.work/pages/biofire-diagnostics.md` · Salt Lake City · Careers: https://jobs.jobvite.com/biofiredx/jobs — Hiring runs across engineering, software/IT, manufacturing, scientific/R&D, and commercial support — QC and packing technicians, field system engineers, clinical applications specialists, medical science liaisons, market-access and account managers, and HR/supply-chain partners. Assay-development and molecular-biology scientists, regulatory-affairs specialists with 510(k)/De Novo/CE-IVD experienc… *(reviewed 2026-07-14)*
- **[Bioparin](/pages/bioparin.md)** · `https://greatutah.work/pages/bioparin.md` · Salt Lake City — Bioparin is at lab scale. The company likely needs synthetic biologists with carbohydrate metabolism expertise, process engineers with biosynthesis scale-up experience, carbohydrate chemists, and regulatory affairs specialists familiar with drug biosimilar pathways. At this stage, non-dilutive federal funding (further SBIR/STTR awards, NIH grants) is the most plausible near-term capital path, wit… *(reviewed 2026-07-14)*
- **[CaLycia Biosciences](/pages/calycia-biosciences.md)** · `https://greatutah.work/pages/calycia-biosciences.md` · Salt Lake City · Website: https://www.calyciabioscience.com — Likely needs include cell-therapy process development engineers, macrophage transfection and expansion specialists, neurosurgical and neuro-oncology clinical advisors, IND-enabling study operators, and seed or strategic capital. Macrophage engineering is technically harder than T-cell CAR workflows — shorter ex vivo lifespan and harder genetic modification — so manufacturing and persistence are c… *(reviewed 2026-07-14)*
- **[Carterra](/pages/carterra.md)** · `https://greatutah.work/pages/carterra.md` · Salt Lake City · Website: https://carterra-bio.com — The company's homepage and careers navigation point to instrument sales, applications support, and software for kinetics and epitope analysis — roles spanning biophysics applications scientists, microfluidics and optical hardware engineers, and software for high-throughput biosensor data ([official site](/pages/carterra-official-website.md)). Specific open requisitions were not captured here. *(reviewed 2026-08-11)*
- **[Culmination Bio](/pages/culmination-bio.md)** · `https://greatutah.work/pages/culmination-bio.md` · St. George · Website: https://intermountainhealthcare.org/services/genomics/research/collaborative-solutions/culmination/ — Likely needs include computational biologists, clinical data scientists, bioinformaticians, health-data engineers, privacy and compliance specialists, IRB and regulatory experts, and pharma business-development leaders who understand data-licensing deals. The Intermountain parent brings institutional scale; the spinout structure is meant to move faster than a hospital QI program. *(reviewed 2026-07-14)*
- **[Curza](/pages/curza.md)** · `https://greatutah.work/pages/curza.md` · Salt Lake City · Website: https://curza.com — Likely needs include medicinal chemists, microbiologists, and structural biologists focused on ribosome biochemistry, plus regulatory and CMC support for IND preparation. The company operates in a grant-heavy, mission-driven environment — contributors motivated by antimicrobial-resistance and biodefense impact rather than typical VC pharma timelines tend to fit best. No Phase 1 IND filing for CZ-… *(reviewed 2026-07-14)*
- **[Evolution Bio](/pages/evolution-bio.md)** · `https://greatutah.work/pages/evolution-bio.md` · Salt Lake City · Website: https://www.english.biochem.utah.edu — Likely needs include protein engineers and molecular biologists experienced in mammalian cell culture and viral systems, GPCR pharmacology specialists, synthetic-biology engineers, pharma business-development leaders, and patent counsel for platform licensing. Early-stage platform companies also need reference customers or partnership announcements that validate repeatability beyond the original … *(reviewed 2026-06-19)*
- **[Halia Therapeutics](/pages/halia-therapeutics.md)** · `https://greatutah.work/pages/halia-therapeutics.md` · Lehi · Website: https://haliatx.com — Likely needs for a company at this stage include drug-discovery scientists, medicinal chemists, clinical pharmacologists, translational and clinical-operations staff, regulatory leaders experienced in oncology and hematology trials, and the capital to move from Phase 2a toward larger, confirmatory studies. A relatively small team for the scope of the program means individual scientists and operat… *(reviewed 2026-06-18)*
- **[Huntsman Cancer Institute](/pages/huntsman-cancer-institute.md)** · `https://greatutah.work/pages/huntsman-cancer-institute.md` · Salt Lake City · Careers: https://healthcare.utah.edu/huntsmancancerinstitute/about-us/careers — As an academic medical center, HCI’s "needs" are mostly people and translational partners rather than venture capital: cancer biologists, geneticists and genetic counselors, epidemiologists and population scientists, clinical oncologists, computational biologists, data-science and AI researchers, and clinical-trial and research-operations staff. HCI’s own careers page tends toward clinical-resear… *(reviewed 2026-07-14)*
- **[Inherent Biosciences](/pages/inherent-biosciences.md)** · `https://greatutah.work/pages/inherent-biosciences.md` · Salt Lake City · Website: https://www.inherentbio.com — Likely needs include epigenomics scientists, bioinformaticians, clinical-laboratory operators, reproductive endocrinology KOLs, and reimbursement strategists. Small-team contributors can have high leverage; regulatory and CLIA/LDT pathways for diagnostic products are core constraints. *(reviewed 2026-06-19)*
- **[Myriad Genetics](/pages/myriad-genetics.md)** · `https://greatutah.work/pages/myriad-genetics.md` · Salt Lake City · Careers: https://myriad.com/careers/ — Likely needs include molecular biologists, bioinformatics engineers, clinical laboratory scientists, variant-curation specialists, regulatory and quality professionals familiar with laboratory-developed tests, health-system partnership managers, and product leaders who can translate genomics into clinician-friendly reports. For talent matching, Myriad suits scientists and operators who want clini… *(reviewed 2026-06-19)*
- **[NephroNovus](/pages/nephronovus.md)** · `https://greatutah.work/pages/nephronovus.md` · Salt Lake City · Website: https://altitudelab.org/portfolio — Likely needs for a company at this stage include renal fibrosis biology expertise, medicinal chemistry or biologics discovery, computational drug-discovery engineering, preclinical pharmacology, IP counsel, and seed fundraising. A two-founder team (if still accurate) implies high leverage per contributor but also key-person risk. *(reviewed 2026-06-19)*
- **[Recursion Pharmaceuticals](/pages/recursion-pharmaceuticals.md)** · `https://greatutah.work/pages/recursion-pharmaceuticals.md` · Salt Lake City · Careers: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/recursionpharmaceuticals — Hiring spans computational biology (early discovery, oncology, neuroscience), clinical pharmacology and clinical science, CMC/regulatory affairs, DMPK leadership, compound management, and corporate strategy. Broader fit still includes ML infrastructure engineers, assay development scientists, medicinal chemists, clinical operators, and product-minded platform leaders who can serve both internal p… *(reviewed 2026-07-14)*
- **[Ripple Neuro](/pages/ripple-neuro.md)** · `https://greatutah.work/pages/ripple-neuro.md` · Salt Lake City · Careers: https://rippleneuro.com/careers-at-ripple/ — Hiring emphasis is application-scientist / field-sales talent who can talk electrophysiology with research labs (human and animal neuroscience); applications are also accepted at jobs@rppl.com. That sits alongside the longer-standing likely needs for analog/mixed-signal hardware engineers, ASIC designers, embedded firmware engineers, and biomedical engineers who want to design instruments rather … *(reviewed 2026-07-14)*
- **[Sethera Therapeutics](/pages/sethera-therapeutics.md)** · `https://greatutah.work/pages/sethera-therapeutics.md` · Salt Lake City · Website: https://setheratx.com — Likely needs include peptide chemists, enzymologists, medicinal chemists, in-vivo pharmacologists, and platform-partnership business development. Very early team; broad roles and high individual leverage typical of academic spinouts. *(reviewed 2026-07-14)*
- **[SymbioCellTech](/pages/symbiocelltech.md)** · `https://greatutah.work/pages/symbiocelltech.md` · Salt Lake City · Website: https://symbiocelltech.com/ — Likely needs include cell-therapy manufacturing scientists, immunology and transplant biology advisors, GMP process-development engineers, regulatory affairs specialists for IND-enabling studies and CBER interactions, clinical-trial operations staff, and capital for human proof-of-concept trials. The key unproven claim — durable MSC-mediated immune privilege at clinical scale — demands rigorous c… *(reviewed 2026-07-14)*
- **[Techcyte](/pages/techcyte.md)** · `https://greatutah.work/pages/techcyte.md` · Orem · Careers: https://techcyte.com/careers/join-our-team/ — Likely needs include machine-learning engineers with computer-vision backgrounds who want to work on real medical data at scale, pathology domain experts (MD or PhD) willing to work on the technology side, biomedical-informatics and integration engineers, and commercial and regulatory staff to drive adoption and clearances. The company has framed its 2026 raise around growth and a path to profita… *(reviewed 2026-07-14)*
- **[Teiko Bio](/pages/teiko-bio.md)** · `https://greatutah.work/pages/teiko-bio.md` · Salt Lake City · Careers: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/teiko — Teiko maintains a company Ashby board and is recruiting into the technical bridge between laboratory data and clinical-trial delivery. Durable needs include software and bioinformatics engineering for data pipelines, analysis and customer-facing reports, alongside scientists who understand cytometry, immunology, assay validation and regulated clinical-laboratory workflows. Individual listings wil… *(reviewed 2026-08-11)*
- **[USU Center for Integrated BioSystems](/pages/usu-integrated-biosystems.md)** · `https://greatutah.work/pages/usu-integrated-biosystems.md` · Logan · Website: https://qanr.usu.edu/biosystems — Research scientists, bioinformatics staff, sequencing technicians, and graduate students committed to agricultural genomics in an arid-land context. Academic research culture; grant-funded project timelines; long-horizon work. The USU Extension relationship creates some demand for applied bioinformatics staff who can communicate with extension agents and ranchers, not just journal reviewers. *(reviewed 2026-06-19)*
- **[Utah Neurorobotics Lab](/pages/utah-neurorobotics-lab.md)** · `https://greatutah.work/pages/utah-neurorobotics-lab.md` · Salt Lake City · Website: https://neurorobotics.ece.utah.edu — The lab recruits graduate students, postdocs, and research engineers in machine learning, biomedical engineering, electrical engineering, and clinical-research support. Funding is grant-driven (NIH, NSF, DoD including DARPA). IP flows through the University of Utah Technology Licensing Office and may seed startups over a 5–10 year horizon. For talent matching, this fits people who want academic r… *(reviewed 2026-06-18)*