Senior Principal Scientist, Translational Safety

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Job Function:

Discovery & Pre-Clinical/Clinical Development

Job Sub Function:

Nonclinical Safety

Job Category:

Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations:

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, San Diego, California, United States of America, Spring House, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Job Description:

About Innovative Medicine

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Join us in developing treatments, finding cures, and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way.

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We are searching for the best talent for a Senior Principal Scientist, Translational Safety to be located in Spring House, PA, Cambridge, MA or San Diego, CA.

Purpose: The Sr. Principal Scientist will serve as a key member of the Translational Safety team in Translational PK/PD & Investigative Toxicology (TPPIT) and Preclinical Sciences & Translational Safety (PSTS) and will be responsible for leading predictive toxicology initiatives in the early drug discovery and de-risking.  The successful candidate will work in matrixed teams evaluating, validating, recommending and integrating conventional in vitro models and complex cellular model systems for predicting off-target and major organ toxicities and guiding drug candidate selection during the early drug development process. This scientist will work closely with teams across PSTS on mechanistic studies as needed while focusing on moving our predictive toxicity workflows to the next level.  The Distinguished Scientist will be responsible for communicating predictive investigative screening plans and updates to PSTS issues teams, project teams, and global leadership in partnership with leaders in Translational Safety and in Therapeutic Development.  Strong knowledge of AI/ML model development is essential as we invest in an R&D wide digital transformation.

You will be responsible for:  

• Lead efforts to build and refine robust high-throughput in vitro organ specific cellular screening workflows
• Serve as the liaison between High throughput screening, Data Sciences, In Silico Modeling and Preclinical Safety Teams
• In collaboration with External Scientific Innovation and Business Development, evaluate external environment to identify new technologies, platforms & CROs with novel, cutting edge applications for in vitro toxicology
• Partner with members of Translation Safety & Discovery, Product Development and Supply (DPDS) functional groups to oversee the conversion of mechanistic cellular, molecular & biochemical toxicology assays into high throughput predictive screening assays
• Function as a key member of Global Translational Safety Team partnering with global leads to establish strategic goals and objectives
• Communicate screening plans and updates to leadership and multidisciplinary teams
• Maintain toxicology expertise through collaborations within TPPIT & PSTS globally, DPDS, and through organizational associations, literature reviews, continuing education, and publications.
• Partner with Global Lead of Cellular & Molecular Toxicology, as well as Safety Pharmacology leads  to establish strategic goals and objectives.
• Identify topics appropriate for internal and external scientific publication, author scientific publications, p