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title: 'Corporate Counsel at IMU Biosciences'
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# Corporate Counsel at IMU Biosciences

- **Company:** IMU Biosciences
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-10-27
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-27
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/imubiosciences/a2ae2e1f-4529-4ea7-950c-bc2a2c84a26f

## Job description

## About IMU Biosciences

IMU Biosciences has developed proprietary platform technologies that generate and translate vast system-level immune data into actionable insights and tools to drive the development of precision medicines across a variety of diseases. IMU leverages advanced immune profiling with proprietary AI and machine learning analytics to uncover novel clinical immune signatures. IMU continues to establish partnerships with leading pharma and biotech companies to advance disease diagnosis, optimise product selection, and improve patient stratification and monitoring - while also building its own pipeline of innovative products.

## About The Role

We are seeking Corporate Counsel to support IMU Biosciences across key commercial, operational, and clinical matters. In this role, you will draft and negotiate complex contracts, safeguard our IP portfolio, and provide actionable legal counsel to internal teams as we expand our platform capabilities and pipeline. You will be working with a dynamic team of stakeholders working on the cutting edge of biotech and machine learning, with support from the CLO, Contracts Manager and outside counsel.

Core Responsibilities

- Draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of commercial contracts, including vendor agreements, service contracts, and strategic partnerships.
- Provide clear, practical legal advice and guidance across all commercial matters to internal teams and organizational stakeholders.
- Help build internal legal policies, contract playbooks, and training programs while managing outside counsel when needed.

## Team and Ways of Working

You will join a collaborative Legal team comprising the Chief Legal Officer and a Contracts Manager, with support from external counsel. Each team member takes ownership of their areas of responsibility, working independently and proactively while collaborating to achieve the team’s and wider business’s objectives.

## Skills, Knowledge and Experience

Qualification Requirements

- Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.), Juris Doctor (J.D.), or equivalent law degree from an accredited institution.
- Qualified solicitor or active bar admission in good standing in at least one relevant jurisdiction.
- 3–7 years of post-qualification experience inhouse and/or private practice in biotech, pharmaceutical, or life sciences.
- Strong foundational knowledge of commercial contracts, intellectual property considerations, and relevant regulatory frameworks in healthcare or biotechnology.

Technical Must-Haves (Essential Skills)

- Strong proficiency in drafting, reviewing, and negotiating basic commercial contracts and service agreements in a timely fashion based on project needs.
- Conversant with complex commercial contracts within the biotech or life sciences sector including IP licence provisions, with support as needed.
- Strong familiarity with regulatory frameworks, compliance requirements, and healthcare standards relevant to biotechnology and life sciences.
- Good technical understanding of life sciences relevant to clinical development.

Nice-to-Haves (Desirable Skills).

- Working knowledge of data privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR) as applied to clinical, biological, and health data.
- Experience working with AI/ML and/or platform technologies.

## Key Competencies

- Collaborative nature: Works confidently with scientists, commercial colleagues, senior leaders and external partners.
- Proactive: Takes the initiative to identify and address stakeholder needs as they arise.
- Advocacy: Can advocate the legal position in cross functional teams
- Flexible thinking: Able to see more than one approach as project needs and priorities change in a dynamic environment.

Why Join Us? ● Competitive salary and company bonus scheme ● Pension, health insurance, life assurance, and income protection ● Fast-paced, collaborative startup culture ● Strong opportunities for career development and progression

## About IMU Biosciences

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: IMU Biosciences is building the world’s largest high-definition immune dataset to power precision medicine across immuno-oncology, transplantation, and beyond.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A – $14.6M raised in Jan 2024)
- **Headquarters**: London, United Kingdom
- **Founded**: 2019
- **Founders**: Thomas Hayday PhD (Co-founder & Chief Research Officer), Adam Laing PhD (Co-founder, President & CSO), Mario Cantero MBA (Co-founder & COO)

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Biotechnology Research / Precision Medicine / Immune Profiling
- Target customers: Clinical research groups, pharma, biotech, and diagnostics companies (B2B)
- Mission: To transform our understanding of the immune system with HD (High Definition) Immunology, enabling immune-driven precision medicine for diagnosing, monitoring, and treating disease.

## Products & Services
- **The IMU Platform**: A massively scalable, high-definition multi-omic immune profiling platform that measures over 100 million data points from a single 2ml blood sample, resolving 2,500 discrete immune cell subsets in real time using proprietary AI/ML analytics. Delivers actionable immune insights at clinical scale.
- **Programmes in Immuno-Oncology**: Predictive signatures of response and adverse events to checkpoint inhibition.
- **Programme in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (HSCT)**: First-in-class predictive screening tool for graft efficacy.
- **Programme in Solid Organ Transplantation (SOT)**: Tools to predict graft rejection.
- **Partnership Services**: Works with partners across the spectrum of immune health and disease to decode disease mechanisms and improve drug discovery.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $14.625M (Seed + Series A) – Series A ($14.6M) led by Molten Ventures and COREangels in Jan 2024.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Molten Ventures, COREangels; strategic partnerships with pharma, biotech, and diagnostics companies.
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew +11.6% YoY (33 employees as of mid-2026); building the world’s largest population-level immune dataset with 25,000+ deeply characterised samples; expanding into new therapeutic areas and geographies (presence in Spain, US, Sweden).

## Competitive Advantages
- Unmatched resolution and scale: 2,500 immune subsets and 100M+ data points per sample – far beyond traditional low-parameter flow cytometry.
- Proprietary real-time AI/ML engine that integrates single-cell proteomics with transcriptomics.
- Automated, standardised, and reproducible at clinical scale, enabling deployment across hundreds of thousands of samples.
- Largest population-level immune dataset, creating a powerful data moat for discovery and AI model training.

## Strategic Focus
- Scale the immune dataset to hundreds of thousands of samples, becoming the universal standard for immune measurement.
- Progress multiple programmes toward the clinic in immuno-oncology, HSCT, SOT, and beyond.
- Deepen partnerships with pharma and biotech to translate immune insights into clinical action and drug development.
- Continue to hire top talent in immunology, computational biology, data science, and engineering to accelerate platform development.

## Why Work Here
- Culture: A team of leading immunologists, computational biologists, data scientists, engineers, and company builders driven to translate cutting-edge science into real-world patient impact.
- Work model: Hybrid (London HQ), with roles listed as “Hybrid Full-time”.
- Notable perks: Opportunity to work on the world’s largest immune dataset, cutting-edge AI/ML, and directly impact patient outcomes.
- Engineering culture: Emphasis on building scalable data platforms, real-time AI analytics, and high-throughput lab automation.
- Open roles (as of mid-2026): Data Platform Engineer, Senior Software Engineer (Semantics) – applications via [jobs.ashbyhq.com/imubiosciences](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/imubiosciences).

## Sources
1. [imubiosciences.com](https://imubiosciences.com/) – Company overview, science, programmes, mission
2. [imubiosciences.com/about-us](https://www.imubiosciences.com/about-us/) – Leadership, team, founding story
3. [imubiosciences.com/our-science](https://imubiosciences.com/our-science/) – Platform details, dataset scale, AI analytics
4. [imubiosciences.com/careers](https://imubiosciences.com/careers) – Careers page, open roles, culture
5. [linkedin.com/company/imubiosciences](https://uk.linkedin.com/company/imubiosciences) – Funding, headcount growth, employee breakdown, investors

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