Senior Director, Translational Medicine China

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Primary Role:

We are seeking a highly motivated individual to lead the Translational Medicine (TM) and Development Sciences (DevSci) Teams in China for Roche. The TM China team works with our global partners to primarily  lead biomarker development efforts as well as support activities across Bioanalytical sciences, Clinical Pharmacology and Safety Assessment. This role directly oversees clinical development projects in China and the Asia Pacific region for programs in early and late stage clinical development spanning multiple therapeutic modalities and areas including Oncology, Hematology, Neuroscience,, Immunology,  Cardiovascular, Metabolism and Ophthalmology. 

The Senior Director role serves as the site head for Translational Medicine and Development Sciences China, leading a lab enabled team of 13+ talented researchers and scientists. In this role the Senior Director represents TM China on local development and study teams as well as global teams and will develop and execute the biomarker, CDx  and translational research strategies for the respective therapeutic modalities. This role plays an important part in communicating to and developing collaborative relationships with key investigators and thought leaders in China and APAC, which will be essential in driving our translational sciences forward. 

The Senior Director and Site Head for Translational Medicine and Development Sciences China will report to the Head of Translational Medicine Oncology with a dotted reporting line the the Head of Development Sciences within Genentech Research and Early Development (gRED) based in South San Francisco, USA  and is a member of the Roche Product Development China Leadership Team. This role requires an individual who possesses a cross-enterprise (borderless) mindset with outstanding communication and leadership skills that enable collaboration across the Roche organization and the ability to build and facilitate strong relationships internally and externally.

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