Distinguished Scientist. Nonclinical Safety Leader

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Job Function:
Discovery & Pre-Clinical/Clinical Development

Job Sub Function:
Nonclinical Safety

Job Category:
Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations:
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Spring House, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Job Description:

About Innovative Medicine

Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients, whose insights fuel our science-based advancements.

Visionaries like you work on teams that save lives by developing the medicines of tomorrow.

Join us in developing treatments, finding cures, and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way.

Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/innovative-medicine

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine R&D is recruiting for a Distinguished Scientist, Nonclinical Safety Leader within Preclinical Sciences and Translational Safety (PSTS).

This position is a hybrid role and can be located in Spring House, PA or Cambridge, MA.

As a Distinguished Scientist, Nonclinical Safety (NCS) Leader, you will collaborate with innovative and diverse scientists to support projects in our large and varied portfolio that spans multiple therapeutic areas and includes innovative modalities.

In this vital role you will provide toxicology leadership for all aspects of discovery and development projects, with flexibility to specialize or work across stages of development, therapy areas, and modalities.

You will also collaborate with discovery scientists to identify and nominate candidate molecules, and with development teams to bring these molecules to humans and ultimately through global registration.

Principal Responsibilities:


* Lead PSTS project teams of nonclinical safety and Pharmacokinetic (PK) scientists, ensuring efficient information transfer within the team and interfacing with senior management.


* Serve as NCS representative for global project teams, providing strategic leadership, toxicology expertise, and matrix leadership to ensure high-quality, data-driven decisions that enable efficient progression of portfolio assets from target assessment through commercialization.


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