Veterinary Clinical Pathology Director

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Join Amgen’s Mission of Serving Patients

At Amgen, if you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. Our shared mission—to serve patients living with serious illnesses—drives all that we do.

Since 1980, we’ve helped pioneer the world of biotech in our fight against the world’s toughest diseases. With our focus on four therapeutic areas –Oncology, Inflammation, General Medicine, and Rare Disease– we reach millions of patients each year. As a member of the Amgen team, you’ll help make a lasting impact on the lives of patients as we research, manufacture, and deliver innovative medicines to help people live longer, fuller happier lives.

Our award-winning culture is collaborative, innovative, and science based. If you have a passion for challenges and the opportunities that lay within them, you’ll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career.

Veterinary Clinical Pathology Director

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. Amgen is currently recruiting for an experienced veterinary clinical pathologist to provide scientific leadership and actively contribute to the drug development process from early discovery through registration. This position of Veterinary Clinical Pathology Director is within the Pathology function of Translational Safety & Bioanalytical Sciences (TS&BA) and will report to the Executive Director of Pathology and be a member of the Pathology Leadership team. TS&BA is a multisite department with expertise in laboratory animal medicine and toxicology, bioanalysis, safety pharmacology and immunotoxicology as well as anatomic and clinical pathology. The Veterinary Clinical Pathology Director will make significant scientific and strategic contributions at the individual study, program and portfolio level to advance therapeutic molecules to the clinic. The candidate will work with teams in multiple therapeutic areas, including oncology, inflammation, cardiometabolic and rare diseases. Working in a collaborative team environment with other colleagues in translational sciences, the successful applicant will provide consultation on unusual or complex clinical pathology findings contributing to the biologic characterization and safety assessment of small molecule and breadth of biologic therapeutics.

As a veterinary clinical pathologist, the successful candidate will participate in designing, managing, clinical pathology assessments on safety assessment programs in support of drug development candidates. Your primary responsibilities will be the non-clinical assessment of safety of novel therapies and resolution of issues during drug development. In this role, you will collaborate on target liability assessments, characterize the safety of novel therapeutic targets, conduct investigations to understand potential underlying mechanisms for toxicity, and participate in the integration of data across disciplines. You will work closely in consultation with internal anatomic pathologists and toxicologists, providing expert analysis and interpretation of clinical pathology findings from toxicology studies. The candidate will be familiar with working with CRO scientific partners and will be in a liaison role for clinical pathology. Secondary responsibilities will include collaborating with early discovery on animal model development and efficacy studies.

Opportunities exist to serve as a project lead for drug candidates, participate in in-licensing activities, and contribute to cross-functional teams. We are a multisite department supporting teams in North America and the EU and will consider a remote position for the appropriately experience candidate.

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The dynamic professional we seek is a leader with these qualifications.

Basic Qualifications:

• DVM / VMD or equivalent professional veterinary degree, plus PhD in Pathology, Toxicology or related field and 4 years of toxicologic pathology experience in a biopharmaceutical setting.
• Certification in Clinical Veterinary Pathology by the appropriate board (ACVP, ECVP, or FRCPath) is required.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 15 years of experience in toxicologic pathology in a biopharmaceutical setting is strongly preferred.

What you can expect from us

As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for your professional and personal growth and well-being. From our competitive benefits to our collaborative culture, we’ll support your journey every step of the way.

The expected annual salary range for this role in the U.S. (excluding Puerto Rico) is posted. Actual