Summary
About the Role
Key responsibilities:
- Act as an internal Nuclear Medicine Physician / Radiologist with focus on clinical trials.
- Partner with Oncology and General Medicine teams to develop and lead “fit for purpose” radiology approaches for image review and analysis, and execute on them.
- Collaborate with internal teams and academic research partners to develop innovative readouts (MRI, CT, PET, SPECT, …) and implement them into clinical trials.
- Support internal study teams with expert image review and, if needed, analysis
- Collaborate and execute imaging readouts with internal operational support and external contract research organizations (CRO).
- Develop and Support imaging strategy to advance therapeutic compounds from pre-clinical evaluation to post-launch.
- Support nuclear medicine and imaging for due diligence and external collaboration.
Essential Requirements:
- Board Certified Radiologist or Nuclear Medicine physician with 10+ years of experience in Structural and Molecular Imaging in academia or industry; Drug development and clinical trial experience is highly desirable
- Must have deep technical knowledge in PET and SPECT as applied to clinical readouts
- Expertise at the intersection of biomarkers and clinical needs along various stages of drug development
- Ability to balance external science (e.g., literature, KOL inputs) with optimal needs in projects.
- Demonstrated track record of innovative research preferably across imaging modalities
- Strong understanding of clinical trial design, statistics for endpoints and clinical data flow is required. Experience with clinical protocol writing across various line functions is required
- Experience working with imaging CROs and academic site as part of multi-center clinical trials; Understanding of sites, budgets and experience with multi-center trials is a plus
- Proactive, self- motivated, collaborative and independent working style. Used to work in a multidisciplinary team and understand the needs and goals of the broader organization
- Fluent in oral and written English
Desirable Requirements:
- Experience in clinical Radioligand/Radiopharmaceutical Therapy (RLT/RPT)
- Experience in interactions with Health Authorities, Regulatory submissions, and Dosimetry
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Accessibility and accommodation
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