Associate Medical Director, Early Clinical Development

Known for its scientific and operational excellence, Regeneron is a leading science-based biopharmaceutical company that discovers, invents, develops, manufactures, and commercializes medicines for the treatment of serious medical conditions. Regeneron commercializes medicines for eye diseases, high LDL-cholesterol, and a rare inflammatory condition and has product candidates in development in other areas of high unmet medical need, including oncology, rheumatoid arthritis, asthma, atopic dermatitis, pain, and infectious diseases.

Summary:
Qualified physician or scientist with experience in the pharmaceutical/biotechnoloigy sector, or academic clinical setting. Works with supervisor and other members of the cross-functional study team to author/contribute to early clinical development protocols and facilitate execution of study activities and data summarization. Unique opportunity to work with an expanding study for a rare disease. Experience with Endocrinology, Rheumatology, muscle disease, bone disease, or rare genetic diseases preferred.

Responsibilities:

• Contributes to/leads the cross-functional study team on the following activities, including but not limited to:

• Collaborates on/designs POC-enabling human studies, First-In-Human (FIH) studies, POC (clinical and/or pharmacologic) studies as per clinical strategy.

• Responsible for the relevance and accuracy of medical science underpinning of clinical study based on thorough scientific review and consultation with internal and external experts.
o Reviews, edits and finalizes clinical trial plans
o Organizes and conducts consultations with global opinion leaders

• Reviews and finalizes the medical and scientific portions of clinical study concepts (CSCs) and clinical study protocols (CSPs) and amendments.

• Reviews and edits documents related to trials, such as monitoring plans, SAPs, amendments, IRB/IEC submissions and regulatory submissions.

• Accountable, with input from Clinical Trial Management and Biostatistics and Data Management for timely clinical trial execution and quality of deliverables:
o Leads and supervises the Clinical Team to produce high quality program deliverables on schedule
o Identifies program, trial or data risks, creates and implements mitigation strategies
o Maintains and develops relationship with key study investigators
o Organizes clinical expert consultations, steering committees and data safety monitoring boards as required
o Reports to supervisor and management on clinical trial findings and milestones
o Responsible for the medical content of clinical study reports
o Reviews all medical/scientific publications related to clinical trial

• Analyzes the benefits and risk aspects of an assigned therapeutic candidate:
o Responsible for the analysis of clinical data, including safety monitoring
o Responsible for activities and procedures that ensure patient safety

• Ensures Clinical Team compliance with FDA, EMEA, ICH and GCP guidelines as well as applicable SOPs regarding clinical safety.

• Authors/contributes to clinical sections of communications/documentation for regulatory agencies and may participate in meetings as needed.

• Conducts detailed literature reviews and analysis of development opportunities from mechanistic, pharmacological and clinical development perspectives.

• Working with the ECD&ES Disease Area Lead, takes lead on various collaborations with TFA Research and Regeneron Genetic Center (RGC) colleagues to understand current and emerging targets/molecule program, provide clinical input on potential disease areas/indications, and design clinical experiments that corroborate or inform the biology for decision-making purposes.

Requirements:
Education:

• M.D. degree or M.D./Ph.D. Board Certification/eligibility in a relevant therapeutic area preferred (such as Endocrinology, Rheumatology, Genetics, Rare Disease) along with relevant industry experience

Experience

• 2-4 years prior industry experience or practice experience, preferably in a research/academic setting

• Experience in analysis of clinical and basic research information from a wide range of topics.

• Effective communications (verbal & written) and presentation skills are essential.

• Must be able to work productively in a fast-paced collaborative environment.

• Demonstrated critical thinking skills and sound decision-making

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This is an opportunity to join our select team that is already leading the way in the Pharmaceutical/Biotech industry. Apply today and learn more about Regeneron's unwavering commitment to combining good science & good business.

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