Science Lead, Intercept
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About Stripe
Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach while doing the most important work of your career.
About the team
This role is on the Intercept team, which is part of Stripe's broader collection of public goods initiatives, including Frontier.
Respiratory viruses kill 1 million people a year, cost us $600B annually, disrupt everyday life, and periodically threaten civilization. Recent breakthroughs may make it possible to develop and deploy broad-spectrum preventatives and air cleaning technologies that defend against common respiratory infections. Intercept is a $500M philanthropic initiative that aims to radically reduce the burden of respiratory infections, and eventually eliminate them altogether. Learn more about Intercept via our launch post and our website
What you’ll do
Intercept is looking for an exceptional scientist to join our team. We’re working to bring into existence a portfolio of broad-spectrum preventatives needed to radically reduce the burden of respiratory viruses. Our goal is to advance 2+ products that meet our target product profile through Phase 2. We make both grants and investments, using the most capital-efficient tool to advance our target product profile.
This role will focus on conducting research, managing projects, and supporting diligence across our grant and equity pipelines. This work requires shaping and building out our internal points-of-view across a wide range of modalities that are relevant to respiratory viruses, which include innate immunity, adaptive immunity, direct-acting antivirals, host-directed therapeutics, and physical formulation barriers for the upper respiratory tract. The role will generate high-quality theses to guide our approach to grant and equity investments as well as engage with a wide range of scientific experts, investors, funders, and other key stakeholders in the ecosystem to make sure Intercept is funding the best high-conviction ideas, concepts, and platforms.
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