Senior Scientist - Precision Medicine

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals•Tarrytown, GA

1d•$109,900 - $179,300•Hybrid

About The Position

The Precision Medicine group at Regeneron is responsible for designing, implementing, executing, analyzing and interpreting the overarching clinical biomarker strategies for therapeutic candidates during clinical development. We are seeking to hire a Precision Medicine Strategy Lead (PMSL) at the Senior Scientist level to oversee the development and execution of biomarker strategies for multiple clinical stage assets across diverse therapeutic areas including solid tumor oncology, heme malignancies, immune oncology, rare genetic disorders and/or neurodegenerative conditions.

Requirements

A Ph.D. (and/or M.D.) in Immunology is required. Related disciplines may be considered.
2+ years’ experience participating effectively on cross-disciplinary teams in pharmaceutical or biotech industry.
At least 2-3 years in clinical assay development, validation and implementation, with a track record of high impact in drug development.

Nice To Haves

Experience in solid tumor oncology or heme malignancies with exposure to clinical development experience is preferred.
Familiarity with complex datasets, molecular epidemiology and/or statistics a plus.

Responsibilities

Program-level Precision Medicine lead for implementation of strategic vision for clinical biomarkers in one or more therapeutic areas that will broadly enable advances in target identification, indication selection, early indication of biological activity and patient stratification/selection.
Serve as an individual contributor and representative of Precision Medicine on development teams and deliver biomarker strategies to key programs from initial concept to execution, data delivery and results interpretation.
Collaborate with Discovery Research and product development teams to facilitate appropriate incorporation of Precision Medicine and clinical biomarker strategies for molecules in discovery phases (leading to candidate molecule selection.)
Represent Regeneron and work with colleagues from allied companies to develop and implement strategies for partnered alliances.
Collaborate with clinical operations teams to implement specific biomarker and exploratory sample collection and analyses in all relevant clinical studies in selected programs.
Design, oversee and manage internal and external research collaborations in areas of clinical technologies and translational research.
Accountability for ensuring clinical assays used in programs are fit-for-purpose (whether developed and validated internally or externally.)
Collaborate with internal Regeneron laboratories (e.g. Discovery Research, Molecular Profiling, Regeneron Genetics Center, DNA Core, BioAnalysis, etc.) to develop plan for validation and application of research assays.