
Senior Clinical Scientist
MSD
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: California • New Jersey • United States
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Salary
💰 $114,700 - $180,500 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Responsible for leading specific aspects of clinical/scientific execution of clinical protocol(s).
- Serving as the lead clinical scientist on the clinical trial team.
- Leading medical monitoring team in review and interpretation of clinical data/medical protocol deviations in collaborations with the Clinical Director.
- Collaborating cross-functionally in the development of Protocol and related study materials (e.g., ICF documents / amendments); Partners with the Study Manager on study deliverables.
- Ensuring CRF design supports data collection in alignment with the protocol in collaboration with Data Management/Programming.
- Collaborating cross-functionally to monitor clinical data to ensure quality, completeness, and integrity of trial conduct.
- Providing tactical/scientific mentorship to other clinical scientists.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree +5 years of pharmaceutical, clinical drug development, project management, and/or medical field experience OR Master's Degree +3 year of pharmaceutical, clinical drug development, project management, and/or medical field experience OR PhD/PharmD Degree
- Degree in life sciences, preferred.
- Experience in conducting global clinical trials, including trial initiation through database lock.
- Experience in conducting clinical trials in ophthalmology, such as uveitis, AMD (age-related macular degeneration), thyroid eye disease.
- Experience in developing protocols and study related documents for ophthalmology clinical trials.
- Experience with imaging vendors, clinical outcome assessments, biomarker sample collection and management, and external data monitoring committee for ophthalmology clinical trials.
- Experience with review of participant eligibility for trials (e.g., inclusion and exclusion criteria and prohibited/concomitant medications) with a high focus in ophthalmology clinical trials.
- Experience in performing medical monitoring in ophthalmology clinical trials
- Experience with ophthalmologic assessments, e.g (slit lamp. dilated indirect ophthalmoscopy {DIO}, imaging assessments such as optical coherence tomography {OCT}; fluorescein angiography {FA}, fundus photography {FP} and visual acuity assessments such as best corrected visual acuity {BCVA} performed in ophthalmology clinical trials.
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family)
- retirement benefits, including 401(k)
- paid holidays
- vacation
- compassionate and sick days
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Hard Skills & Tools
clinical protocol executionmedical monitoringclinical data interpretationprotocol developmentCRF designdata collectionclinical trial managementophthalmology clinical trialsbiomarker sample managementmedical monitoring in ophthalmology
Soft Skills
leadershipcollaborationmentorshipcommunicationproject management