Associate Director, Translational Medicine, Neuroscience

• Develop and execute translational disease strategy in Alzheimer’s and neurological disease areas
• Lead and oversee disease strategy execution, including patient selection strategies
• Generate novel hypotheses for targetable biologies by integrating novel discoveries, literature, and neuroscience expertise
• Manage cross-functional disease project teams interfacing with IT, bioinformatics, data science, statistics, external collaborators, contractors, disease strategy leads, and asset leads
• Maintain relationships with translational clinicians to identify opportunities and gain disease insight
• Identify needs, gaps, and translational disease questions across the neuroscience portfolio
• Lead collaborations with academia and industry partners to identify biobanks, clinical trials, and databases and collate genomic, immune, and clinical datasets
• Guide bioinformatics partners on biological questions using transcriptome, exome, genome, epigenetic, proteomic, immune-profile, and single-cell data
• Manage internal stakeholder and external collaborator relationships to develop translational analysis plans, timelines, and communicate results
• Represent Neurology Translational Medicine at internal meetings and provide domain expertise to cross-functional teams
• Direct and support publications in scientific, technical, or medical journals

Requirements

• PhD degree in a neuroscience-related field
• Minimum of 8 years post-PhD experience
• Demonstrated scientific leadership in integrating, analyzing, and interpreting multimodal biological data in an academic and/or industry setting
• Strong background in neuroscience with focus on Alzheimer’s disease, human genetics/genomics, molecular and cellular biology
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with rapidly changing and competing priorities and ambiguity
• Ability to work in cross-functional teams
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Strong track record of high-quality scientific publications in relevant fields
• Prior experience with clinical trials preferred but not essential
• Knowledge in immunology is a plus

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in developing and executing translational disease strategies in Alzheimer's and neurological diseases, with a strong focus on integrating and analyzing multimodal biological data. Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and maintain relationships with stakeholders to drive scientific research and publications.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• PhD In Neuroscience-Related Field
• Scientific Leadership
• Multimodal Biological Data Analysis
• Neuroscience Expertise
• Clinical Trials Experience

Hard Skills

• Translational Disease Strategy Development
• Patient Selection Strategies
• Hypothesis Generation
• Data Analysis
• Genomic Data Integration
• Bioinformatics Guidance
• Scientific Publication
• Molecular Biology
• Cellular Biology
• Human Genetics/Genomics

Soft Skills

• Excellent Communication
• Collaboration Skills
• Adaptability
• Leadership

Industry Keywords

• Alzheimer's Disease
• Neuroscience
• Translational Medicine
• Biobanks
• Clinical Trials
• Genomic Datasets
• Immune-Profile Data
• Single-Cell Data
• Epigenetics
• Proteomics