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Quotient Tx: VP, Translational Medicine

Flagship Pioneering · Cambridge, MA USA · On-site

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About the role

Quotient is seeking a highly strategic, intellectually agile, and clinically minded leader to serve as Vice President of Translational Medicine. This is a senior clinical leadership role responsible for integrating clinical insights across scientific, drug discovery and corporate teams to support prioritization of disease areas, drug targets, medicine profiles, and leading early translational planning into clinical development strategies with a high probability of clinical and regulatory success. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • At least 4+ years in clinical drug development within early-stage biotech, pharmaceutical industry, and/or translational research settings
  • MD, MD/PhD, or equivalent clinical training, ideal candidate will have spent meaningful time in patient-facing roles
  • Demonstrated success in translating scientific ideas/drug targets into novel clinical development strategies and/or experimental medicine strategies
  • Demonstrated experience in driving disease area and drug discovery project strategy development across multiple disease and therapy areas
  • Intellectually agile, curious and confident in offering perspectives outside their domain expertise. The incumbent should be able to go deep quickly in new therapeutic areas despite limited prior experience
More about this role

Quotient is seeking a highly strategic, intellectually agile, and clinically minded leader to serve as Vice President of Translational Medicine. This is a senior clinical leadership role responsible for integrating clinical insights across scientific, drug discovery and corporate teams to support prioritization of disease areas, drug targets, medicine profiles, and leading early translational planning into clinical development strategies with a high probability of clinical and regulatory success.

The role will provide both strategic and scientific leadership opportunities and the opportunity to work across a broad span of functional areas including human genetics, human target validation, translational biology, biomarker discovery, clinical pharmacology, and clinical development and commercial strategy. This individual will have a strong influence on the shape and direction of Quotient’s drug discovery pipeline strategy, applying deep clinical insight to evaluate and prioritize somatic genomics-discovered drug targets, assets, and development plans across a wide range of disease areas.

This role would suit an MD or MD/PhD with a background in early clinical development within a...

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