Associate Principal Scientist, Translational Biomarkers Lead
Associate Principal Scientist, Translational Biomarkers Lead
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Associate Principal Scientist General Medicine Therapeutic Areas Biomarker Lead
Job Description
Translational Biomarkers (TB) is responsible for the development and validation of clinical biomarkers and their end-to-end strategic utilization across all therapeutic areas and all phases of clinical development at our Companys Research laboratories. TB therapeutic area biomarker leads actively collaborate with colleagues in discovery and clinical development to ensure fit-for-purpose biomarker strategies are in place to address key clinical questions and enable facile decision-making to support our pipeline.
The Biomarker Leads group within the TB organization is seeking a highly motivated candidate to join our team. The individual will play a critical role in the design delivery and execution of biomarker plans for our Companys early and late phase clinical trials in the General Medicine therapeutic areas including but not limited to cardiometabolic disorders.
The ideal candidate for this Associate Principal Scientist position should have strong expertise in translational science and laboratory medicine with demonstrated experience applying biomarkers to assess drug activity and patient response to inform therapeutic decision making. In addition the individual should have a strong desire to operate in a highly collaborative and matrixed environment to address unmet patient needs in complex multi-organ diseases.
The individual will have the following responsibilities:
Design and implement biomarker strategies for early and late-stage clinical programs.
Lead clinical biomarker sub-teams as part of program development teams and represent the functional area during governance interactions.
Liaise with subject matter experts to identify and effectively implement target engagement pharmacodynamic proof-of-mechanism and precision medicine biomarkers for clinical phase programs.
Facilitate the adoption of innovative technologies and methodologies for biomarker identification and analysis grounded in disease pathophysiology and aligned with therapeutic mechanisms of action.
Participate in the formulation of testable hypotheses for biomarker analyses and facilitate interpretation of results to ensure meaningful and accurate conclusions are drawn.
Contribute to biomarker-related presentations publications and engagements both internally and externally.
Position Qualifications:
Education Minimum Requirement:
BS MS or Ph.D. in a life sciences discipline (Biochemistry Immunology Molecular Pathology Cell Biology or related field).
Required Experience and Skills:
Ph.D. and 5 years OR MS and 8 years OR BS and 12 years of experience in the biotech or pharmaceutical industry specifically in translational or biomarker sciences.
Excellent interpersonal project leadership verbal and written communication skills.
Strong scientific rigor analytical and problem-solving abilities with attention to detail and the ability to interpret complex data.
Preferred Qualifications:
Demonstrated experience supporting translational research in cardiometabolic disorders including the development and integration of vascular inflammatory metabolic and/or fibrosis biomarkers to inform patient stratification pharmacodynamic assessment or mechanistic understanding of disease biology.
Contributions to the scientific community through publications presentations or scientific consortia.
Proficiency in applying omics technologies and/or computational approaches (e.g. AI/ML bioinformatics digital pathology analytics) to extract integrate and interpret biomarker data is advantageous.
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Expected US salary range:
$126500.00 - $199100.00Available benefits include bonus eligibility long term incentive if applicable health care and other insurance benefits (for employee and family) retirement benefits paid holidays vacation and sick days. A summary of benefits is listed here.
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Academic Conferences Academic Conferences Bioanalytical Analysis Bioanalytical Assays Bioanalytical Techniques Biochemical Assays Biomarker Development Biomarker Identification Biomarkers Biopharmaceutical Industry Cardiometabolic Clinical Judgment Clinical Testing Clinical Trials Analysis Creativity Data Analysis Detail-Oriented Drug Discovery Development Drug Discovery Research Ethical Compliance Fibrosis Immunohistochemistry (IHC) In Vivo Pharmacology Mass Spectrometry Analysis Metabolic Diseases 12 morePreferred Skills:
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Employment Type
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