Associate Scientific Director, Head of Translational Research Precision Medicine Immunology

Company Description

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

Job Description

The Precision Medicine group at Abbvie is committed to advancing drug development and patient care through building a deeper understanding of disease biology and developing biomarker tools to ensure that patients receive the right drug at the right time.  Abbvie is seeking a highly motivated and experienced translational scientist to build and lead an internal Immunology Translational Research Lab.  The Scientific Director will function as a principal investigator, and will build and lead a team of laboratory scientists and translational research leads, who, as key partners on precision medicine subteams, will ideate and drive original research to understand drug mechanism of action, interrogate new hypothesis to drive patient selection drug combination strategies, enable disease indication selection for clinical studies, and develop assays to drive precision medicine across Abbvie’s Immunology pipeline.  

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and implement translational research strategies for multiple Immunology programs.  Interrogate disease/target biology and interpret data from preclinical and clinical studies to conceive and execute novel scientific research internally or externally to support advancement of the Immunology pipeline.
• Design hypothesis driven experimental strategies to identify PD biomarkers, mechanisms of disease pathology and drug response/resistance, and inform on patient selection stratification and selection strategies.
• Initiate new areas of investigation and implement cutting-edge technologies that are scientifically meaningful, reliable and can be incorporated directly into clinical development programs.
• Build and lead an internal team of highly exp