Clinical Lead, Early Clinical and Experimental Therapeutics

Job Title : Clinical Lead, Early Clinical and Experimental Therapeutics

Location : Cambridge, MA Morristown, NJ

About the Job

Are you ready to shape the future of medicine? The race is on to speed up drug discovery and development to find answers for patients and their families. Your skills could be critical in helping our teams accelerate progress. Join our state-of-the-art ECET department as a Clinical Lead, ECET and you'll drive the translation between preclinical development through early clinical development and beyond, while enjoying lots of opportunities to broaden your experience and hone your skills.

This position located within the Translational Medicine Unit (TMU) / Clinical and Patient Sciences (CPS) / Early Clinical and Experimental Therapeutics (ECET) is responsible for ECET contributions across all therapeutic areas at Sanofi and with a scope that includes small molecule, monoclonal antibody, peptide, gene therapy including nucleic acid modalities.

The individual in this position is an integral part of the therapeutic area project teams and cross-functional Translational Medicine Subteam from preclinical development through post-marketing. A key focus of this role is the path from the research phase through early clinical development including early and rapid Proof-of-Mechanism / Proof-of-Concept, as well as natural history studies and experimental model validation to contribute building the Human Target Validation (HTV) and to evaluate the pharmacology of novel therapeutic approaches. Additionally, to identify potential signals of efficacy or safety notably for new indications and gain better understanding on the mode of action, signal seeking clinical and mechanistic trials are in the scope of expertise for this role. Collaborative interactions with research scientists, toxicologists, pharmacokineticists, modelling & simulation experts, biomarker experts, and late phase therapeutic area clinicians are critical to success in the role. The ability to integrate the outputs of multiple disciplines into a coherent translational medicine and human target validation plan is essential.

We are an innovative global healthcare company with one purpose : to chase the miracles of science to improve people's lives. We're also a company where you can flourish and grow your career, with countless opportunities to explore, make connections with people, and stretch the limits of what you thought was possible. Ready to get started?

Main Responsibilities

At the project level, the Clinical Lead, ECET will be a member of the Translational Medicine subteam. In these roles, duties include :

• Participate in designing the early development plan and overall ECET plan for the different steps of clinical development, integrating into to the overall development strategy in collaboration with the responsible Therapeutic Area in research and development.
• Design safe, rapid and informative First-In-Human studies including First In Patients, natural history, experimental model validation, mechanistic and signal seeking, streamlined Proof-of-Mechanism as well as Proof-of-Concept studies providing robust data for early Go / No Go decisions and other pharmacokinetic studies.
• Supervise the execution and ensure close medical monitoring.
• Review, interpret results, and author ECET-related clinical documentation, including informed consent forms, clinical protocols, study reports; some abstracts and / or manuscripts; clinical pharmacology or ECET components of investigator brochures, regulatory documents.
• Interact effectively with managers from various disciplines; serve as expert and internal consultant on assigned area and liaises with partners on projects.
• Participate in the dose selection for First-In-Human studies, drive Go / No Go decisions when needed.
• Ensure an adequate follow-up of studies and project timelines.
• Present data at appropriate meetings (inside or outside Sanofi).
• Present data at appropriate meetings (inside or outside Sanofi).

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At the clinical study level, the individual will also serve as Study Medical Manager (SMM) for selected clinical studies. SMM principal duties and responsibilities include :

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About You

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Languages : fluent in English.

Why Choose Us?

Sanofi Inc. and its U.S. affiliates are Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employers committed to a culturally diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race; color; creed; religion; national origin; age; ancestry; nationality; marital, domestic partnership or civil union status; sex, gender, gender identity or expression; affectional or sexual orientation; disability; veteran or military status or liability for military status; domestic violence victim status; atypical cellular or blood trait; genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing) or any other characteristic protected by law.

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All compensation will be determined commensurate with demonstrated experience. Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs, and additional benefits information can be found here.