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Principal Pathologist - Preclinical Safety

AbbVie
North Chicago, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 7 Oct 2025

About the role

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 XFacebookInstagramYouTubeLinkedIn and Tik Tok.

Job Description

The Department of Pathology in Preclinical Safety at AbbVie has an opening for a junior board-certified veterinary anatomic pathologist. The primary role of the pathologist is to assess the safety of experimental compounds in a variety of nonclinical species through evaluation of clinical pathology and anatomic pathology data, presentation of data, and preparation of reports. These data enable project teams to de-risk and advance candidate compounds through early to late stages of development. The successful candidate will be scientifically curious, a consensus builder, and strive to deliver meticulous and data-driven solutions to create optimal outcomes for patients.

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to the design, execution, and interpretation of exploratory and GLP-compliant nonclinical toxicity studies intended to support the development of new medicines
  • Perform evaluation of pathology data sets and generate pathology reports as a component of the toxicology reports
  • Perform pathology peer reviews
  • Provide expert scientific leadership in interpretation of pathology data in order to drive appropriate development strategies
  • Design and evaluate investigate studies to explore mechanisms of toxicity using appropriate technologies, including molecular, imaging, biomarker and other analyses
  • Contribute to regulatory submissions and other relevant documentation
  • Support image analysis projects and novel AI model development for increased efficiency and deeper scientific insights
  • Possibility to represent PCS on cross-functional project teams
  • Possibility to be involved in due diligences for in-licensing opportunities

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