Director, Preclinical Safety

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

Company overview:

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.

Description:

The Department of Pathology in Preclinical Safety (PCS) at AbbVie has an outstanding opportunity for a Director-level Board-Certified Veterinary Anatomic Pathologist. The successful candidate will lead the design and implementation of pathology strategies for candidate drugs in all stages of development and provide comprehensive pathology support to nonclinical studies. The candidate will also manage an operational group or other internal staff.

Key Responsibilities will include:

- Perform evaluation of pathology data sets and generate pathology reports for regulatory toxicity studies intended to support the development of new medicines

- Perform pathology peer reviews

- Provide expert scientific leadership in interpretation of pathology data to drive appropriate drug development strategies

- Design and evaluate investigative studies to explore mechanisms of toxicity using appropriate technologies, including molecular, imaging, biomarker and other analyses

- Contribute to regulatory submissions and other relevant documentation

- Manage operational group or scientific staff

- Mentor junior colleagues as it pertains to drug development, interpretation of pathology results, and writing of regulatory documents

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