Global Head, Clinical Imaging and Analytics

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Global Head, Clinical Imaging and Analytics

#LI-Hybrid

This position can be located in Cambridge, MA USA or Basel, Switzerland.

Bringing life-changing medicines to millions of people, Novartis sits at the intersection of cutting-edge medical science and innovative digital technology. As a global company, the resources and opportunities for growth and development are plentiful including global and local cross functional careers, a diverse learning suite of thousands of programs & an in-house marketplace for rotations & project work. With strong medicines pipeline our current transformation will not just deliver growth for our business but continue to allow us to bring innovative medicines to patients quickly.

The Global Clinical Imaging and Analytics Head will coordinate and lead the application of different imaging strategies to support our portfolio of innovative medicines spanning across oncology, cardiovascular, renal, immunology, and neuroscience. Will coordinate with cross-divisional multidisciplinary teams spanning clinical, data science and commercial functions to discover, develop, evaluate and implement innovative AI/ML derived imaging biomarkers/endpoint strategies across the Novartis portfolio. This role will collaborate extensively with internal and external stakeholders to access/leverage medical imaging data/platforms and build a Novartis high value portfolio and reputation in the fields of imaging technology and clinical radiology.

 

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop fit for purpose clinical imaging strategies/technologies for our clinical trials and ensure high quality training at clinical sites and to data acquisition
• Develop and lead unique Novartis strategies for mining internal and external medical image and device data to support innovative biomarker discovery, development and implementation in drug development across multiple therapeutic areas
• Leverage diverse knowledge and skillsets to fully integrate and effectively communicate with clinicians, epidemiologists, data scientists, imaging experts and software engineers to meaningfully advance translational research efforts, including integration into disease animal models and other “omics/phe-nomics” data sets, where appropriate, across multiple therapeutic areas
• Lead AI/Machine learning approaches to develop novel structural and functional biomarkers/endpoints from medical imaging and device data to enable better quantitation of common clinical parameters or improve diagnostics, sub-classify diseases and enable predictive patient risk/stratification
• Lead and partner to enable impact of data science derived imaging biomarker approaches in the early drug development portfolio for “Proof of Concept/Proof of Mechanism” with Translational Medicine across multiple therapeutic areas
• Partner and serve as a leadership team member with NVS data platform groups e.g. DATA42/Data Sciences and AI, to clarify the landscape of clinical needs, challenges and the scope of imaging/DICOM data available to enable new analytic approaches with existing radiology software suites as well as de novo deep learning models at the voxel level
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to support the advancement of imaging data repositories and data collection technologies such that the data are of maximal value to NVS systems and processes.
• Shape NVS policies on imaging data storage, aggregation, harmonization, retention and application so that it is well positioned to benefit NVS now and in the future
• Lead collaborations with internal stakeholders across NVS e.g. Biomedical Research/Development - clinical, data sciences, Chief Digital Office/AI Innovation Center/DATA42 to fully leverage enterprise imaging and data science expertise, optimize our portfolio value and drive innovation
• Key performance indicators:
• Lead the discovery, advancement and qualification of specific imaging based biomarkers/endpoints which can deliver personalized medicine approaches across Novartis portfolio spanning over research and development programs, providing the highest value added medicines
• Enable BR and Dev to test biological and therapeutic hypotheses in clinical development, resulting in clear proof of concept/mechanism readouts, health authority endorsements, and commercial differentiation, potentially helping in successful program acceleration.
• Recognized internally and externally through publications, leading global strategies/teams and consortium impacts as a subject matter expert/leader for NVS
• Adherence to Novartis Values and Behaviors, especially innovation and collaboration
• will be responsible for group of 10-30 associates

Essential Requirements:

• Education/Exp