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Translational Medicine at BMS
Translational medicine is a department within the Research organization that facilitates the transition of drug candidates from early to late-stage clinical development, their approval and life cycle management. Early-stage translational development activities enable rational determination of dose-schedule and responsive patient populations, based on deep understanding of drug mechanism of action and disease segments.
Late-stage translational development activities build upon the early work, additionally exploring mechanisms of resistance, rational drug combinations and product differentiation. The late-stage Translational Development function is responsible for the development of translational strategies to support the development, and maximize the potential, of BMS’s therapies post-clinical proof-of-concept, including registrations and life-cycle management.
Translational disease strategies in solid tumor oncology are derived from long term investments in developing data and deep expertise in disease biology, patient segments, immunodeficiencies and of therapeutic resistance to assist science driven strategies for the development of the oncology pipeline.
Summary
Reporting to the Solid Tumor Lung Disease Head in Translational Medicine, the incumbent will be part of the translational group and will help develop translational disease strategies in lung cancer across multiple asset programs for approval or life-cycle management in the BMS pipeline. Key responsibility of this role is to effectively collaborate with a cross functional team of asset scientists with deep disease, drug development and business knowledge to help drive an overall translational strategy, working closely with discovery and early development teams, late clinical development as well as with our team of laboratory scientists.
Position Description:
Develops and executes translational disease strategy in lung disease area with deep disease expertise
Leads and oversees execution of disease strategy including but not limited to various aspects of patient selection strategies
Serves as scientific expert in generating novel hypotheses for targetable biologies based on novel discoveries integrating disease work with literature and deep expertise in lung biology
Manages cross functional disease project teams with key interfaces in IT, bioinformatics, data sci, stats, external collaborators, contractors, other disease strategy leads and asset leads
Maintains relationship with translational clinicians for identifying new opportunities and for gaining disease insight
Identifies needs, gaps and translational disease questions and applies knowledge across all assets in BMS portfolio in lung area
Leads small and large collaborations with academia and industry partners to identify biobanks, clinical trials and existing databases to collate multi-parameter genomic, immune and clinical datasets to mine for novel biomarkers of unmet need patients in conjunction with computational biologists, data scientists and statisticians
Collaborate and guide bioinformatics partners on biological questions to deliver biomarkers and biological understanding from whole transcriptome, whole exome, and/or whole genome data, immune profiling and single cell data in order to support drug discovery and development in solid tumor oncology.
Manage relationships with key internal stakeholders including regulatory, clinical and commercial and scientific communications and external collaborators to develop translational analysis plans and timelines, communicate analysis results.
Represent the Solid Tumor Oncology Translational Development function at various internal meetings and provide domain knowledge and disease expertise to cross-functional teams.
Direct and support publications in high quality scientific, technical or medical journals.
Qualifications:
PhD degree in a relevant field (e.g. molecular biology, cancer biology, human genetics, immunology).
Minimum of 6 years post-PhD experience for Sr. Principal Level (and minimum of 8 years Post-PhD experience for AD Level), with demonstrated scientific leadership in integrating, analyzing, and interpreting multimodal biological data in an academic and/or industry setting.
Strong background in human genetics/genomics, cellular biology, immunology or immuno-oncology, with an understanding of the tumor microenvironment, is required.
Extensive knowledge of high-content biomarker platforms and good understanding of the current clinical practice in early and late stage lung cancer
Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with rapidly changing and competing priorities and ambiguity.
Strong team player with the ability to work in cross-functional teams. Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Prior experience with clinical trials preferred
Strong track record of high-quality scientific publications in relevant fields
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Uniquely Interesting Work, Life-changing Careers
With a single vision as inspiring as “Transforming patients’ lives through science™ ”, every BMS employee plays an integral role in work that goes far beyond ordinary. Each of us is empowered to apply our individual talents and unique perspectives in an inclusive culture, promoting diversity in clinical trials, while our shared values of passion, innovation, urgency, accountability, inclusion and integrity bring out the highest potential of each of our colleagues.
On-site Protocol
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Site-essential roles require 100% of shifts onsite at your assigned facility. Site-by-design roles may be eligible for a hybrid work model with at least 50% onsite at your assigned facility. For these roles, onsite presence is considered an essential job function and is critical to collaboration, innovation, productivity, and a positive Company culture. For field-based and remote-by-design roles the ability to physically travel to visit customers, patients or business partners and to attend meetings on behalf of BMS as directed is an essential job function.
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