Senior Director (Senior Principal Scientist), Translational Medicine, Immunology

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<p style="text-align:left"><b>Job Description</b></p><p style="text-align:inherit"></p><p><b><u>Senior Principal Scientist (Senior Medical Director) Translational Medicine, Immunology</u></b></p><p></p><p>Translational Medicine in our Research & Development Division is responsible for planning and managing an important inflection point in the drug development process, working closely with scientific, regulatory, statistical, and modeling colleagues across the organization to translate the benchtop science of preclinical discovery into compounds ready for assessment in large clinical populations.</p><p>We are seeking a highly qualified physician-scientist with a proven track record in both the pharmaceutical industry and independent academic research for a position in our group. Please note that our Senior Principal Scientist title is also equivalent to a Senior Medical Director position.</p><p></p><p>The preferred candidate will have at least 5 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry, with a focus on Immunology R&D, as well as clinical and academic expertise in Immunology-related areas such as Dermatology, Rheumatology, or Gastroenterology.</p><p></p><p>For our efforts supporting the Immunology development pipeline, our closest collaborations are with groups based in Boston, MA; however, we will also be open to other locations, including West Point, PA, Upper Gwynned, PA, Rahway, NJ, and San Francisco, CA.</p><p></p><p><b>Translational Medicine is specifically responsible for:</b></p><ul><li><p>Contributing to the identification of novel targets by partnering with discovery research teams to bring a clinical insight into the earliest stages of target identification and validation, and executing clinical studies to evaluate the relevance of potential targets to human disease in order to justify investment in full development</p></li><li><p>Development of biomarker strategies through cross-functional teams that provide line-of-sight from First-in-Human stud

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