Verastem

Verastem

Medical Director, Clinical Development

Boston, Massachusetts · Director

Sponsorship not specified$250k-$310kDetected 27 days ago
Clinical TrialsPharmacologyFDA RegulatoryAnimal StudiesLeadershipCommunicationPublic Speaking

About the role

  • Reporting to the Vice President of Clinical Development.
  • The position provides medical and scientific leadership for Verastem's potentially best-in-class KRAS G12D ON/OFF inhibitor: VS-7375 Program.
  • Serves as the primary medical / safety contact for assigned clinical trials, ensuring compliance and patient safety.

Responsibilities

  • Supports the design and execution of assigned clinical trial(s) and works closely with cross functional study team members to execute activities associated with the conduct of the clinical trials.
  • Partners with Clinical Science, Data Management, Statistical Programing to ensure data integrity. Lead regular data reviews and insight generation to guide development strategy.
  • Collaborates with Safety on reporting of identified adverse events (AEs), serious adverse events (SAEs), and other safety-related events. Contributes to safety profile characterization and corresponding risk mitigation strategy / plans.
  • Authors and develop key study and regulatory documents with the cross functional team, including, but not limited to study protocol, investigator brochure, informed consent form, and clinical study reports.
  • Represents the study / program and interacts on a regular basis with key internal / external partners and stakeholders, including key opinion leaders, clinical investigators, clinicians, scientists as well as internal leadership team and R&D.
  • Lead and present at investigator meetings and advisory committees.
  • Maintains scientific and clinical knowledge in oncology and provides input on Verastem's pipeline, translational and preclinical work.
  • Partners with Clinical Science, Data Management, Statistical Programing to ensure data integrity.
  • Lead regular data reviews and insight generation to guide development strategy.
  • Collaborates with Safety on reporting of identified adverse events (AEs), serious adverse events (SAEs), and other safety-related events.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience in biotech / pharma industry oncology drug development (or substantial investigational therapeutics experience as a clinical investigator if not meeting industry experience requirement) is required
  • Knowledge of Good Clinical Practices (cGCP)
  • Knowledge of current external regulatory environment, e.g. FDA, EMA requirements

Skills

  • effective at summarizing and presenting the key considerations and decision-points.
  • Comfortable working in fast paced entrepreneurial environment, with a flexible mindset to be successful in a biotech corporate culture.
  • Ability to travel up to 20% of the time.
  • Board-certified in oncology
  • Experience in early phase drug development
  • Working knowledge on translational science

Compensation

  • The base salary range ($250,000 - $310,000) provided reflects our current estimate of what we anticipate paying for this position.

Benefits

  • Serve as the primary contact for medical-related inquiries from investigators, regulatory agencies, and internal/external teams, ensuring consistent protocol interpretation and clarification.
  • Apply deep scientific expertise to assess benefit-risk profiles, inform complex development decisions.
  • We are looking for a Medical Director (level dependent on qualifications) to support our growing Clinical Development team!
  • The position provides medical and scientific leadership for
  • Medical Degree (M.D. or equivalent) required.

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