Director, Neuropsychiatry Clinical Translational Biomarker Lead

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com

Job Function:

Discovery & Pre-Clinical/Clinical Development

Job Sub Function:

Translational Discovery & Development Biomarkers

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

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

Job Description:

Johnson and Johnson is recruiting for a Director, Neuropsychiatry Clinical Translational Biomarker Lead to be located in La Jolla, CA, Titusville, NJ, Spring House, PA, or Cambridge, MA. 

Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients, whose insights fuel our science-based advancements. Visionaries like you work on teams that save lives by developing the medicines of tomorrow.

Our Neuroscience team tackles the world’s toughest brain health challenges including multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, myasthenia gravis, epilepsy, major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and autism. This patient-focused team helps address some of the most complex diseases of our time.

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

Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/innovative-medicine   

The Neuroscience Precision Measures Team is an integrated group of scientists that supports the mission to deliver precision therapeutics to patients with CNS disorder in the areas of neuropsychiatry, neurodegeneration and ophthalmology.  The team is composed of disease experts, biomarker scientists, computational biologists, and experts in imaging and digital health, partnering closely with the Neuroscience Discovery and Development organizations to enable advancement of our industry leading pipeline of novel mechanisms. 

The Precision Measures team advances measurement based on human data from fluids, tissues, high-dimensional biology, and neuroimaging to support the end-to-end portfolio. Together with our partners, the PM group will provide the key learnings/insights on the next wave of novel therapies. Precision Measures has a broad remit stretching from support of discovery with human data to support target selection, through development of novel decision-making biomarkers for early phase clinical trials, biomarker support of regulatory filings, post-market publications and diagnostics.

The Director, Neuropsychiatry Clinical Translational Biomarker Lead position is a senior leadership role within the Neuroscience Precision Measures team, supporting programs clinical stage programs in Neuropsychiatry.  This position reports to the Head of Quantitative Imaging and Clinical Biomarkers, and will lead and coordinate cross-functional Measurement Development teams for clinical phase neuropsychiatry programs. The Director will coordinate the translational measurement strategy including patient stratification approaches, advanced endpoints, creating and implementing innovative biomarker strategies by partnering and aligning experts across the Precision Measures, Neuroscience and broader J&J Innovative medicines organization. This role serves as a key member of Compound Development Teams convening the translational subteams, and will lead preparation for Measurement Development Forums to align with and receive input from key members of the Neuroscience Leadership Team. The Director will manage the cross-functional team to turn ideas into plans, evaluating feasibility and risk, performance requirements, timelines, deliverables and communication.

Integration of insights from the external ecosystem, including literature, conferences, partnership and consortia, aligned to program goals and timelines. The successful candidate will have a strong track record, expertise and collaborative base in the field of neuropsychiatry.

The Director will be accountable for ensuring the group’s strategic dir