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Job facts

Job ID: 202106-114745

Location: Penzberg bei München

Company / Division: Diagnostics & Pharma

Are you ready for your next exciting opportunity?

The Early Biomarker Development Oncology (EBDO) Team is responsible for identification and validation of biomarkers used for demonstration of pharmacodynamic effects, mechanism-of-action, response prediction and patient selection / stratification. The EBDO Team supports the whole oncology portfolio and closely interacts with Discovery and Early Clinical Development.

The Job in a Nutshell:

As a Project Pathologist (m/f/d), you are part of the Digital Pathology team within EBDO and are responsible for developing the tissue biomarker strategy across several Oncology projects. You are an expert on tissue analysis and Digital Pathology approaches. You generate key insights from tissue data to support drug development decision making.

The Main Challenges of this position:

• You are part of a cross-functional Digital Pathology team to be at the forefront of tissue biomarker research for Oncology

• You are an expert on analysis of tumor tissue and its application to Drug Development, including Digital Pathology

• You drive key biomarker and pathology capabilities across the Discovery and Early Clinical Development Oncology pipeline (Phase 0, 1, 1b, 2)

• We ask you to develop a deep expertise through study analysis and thorough knowledge of literature

• As a consequence you use your expertise to guide and challenge the use of tissue biomarkers

• You lead external academic partnerships as they relate to tissue biomarkers and/or digital pathology

This is what we appreciate about our new colleague:

Team player: You are capable of working independently but you also enjoy working in a team where there are no single heroes.

Curiosity and drive: You are willing to propose and explore new ideas by your own initiative. You take ownership and you are able to engage people to work on innovative approaches.

Achieving Excellence: You have a goal-oriented mindset and you are known for really having “drive”. Besides, an analytical mindset and the motivation to achieve excellence is natural to you.

And the technical requirements for this position?

• You are an MD and are board certified in pathology. The MD is a must-have requirement. Therefore, please refrain from applying if you are not an MD.

• Previous R&D experience is a benefit, but not necessarily required

• You have experience in tissue biomarkers such as discovering/developing insights from the analysis of tumors and tissues into testable clinical hypotheses

• Moreover you have experience in supervising, exploring, developing and analyzing tissue analysis techniques such as immuno-histochemistry, multiplex immuno-fluorescence, image analysis and spatial-omics approaches

• Experience and interest in developing cutting edge digital pathology approaches are required

• You have a background in cancer biology, cancer genetics and immunology

• Furthermore, we ca rely on your expertise in tissue biomarkers, including digital pathology and image analysis

We look forward to receiving your application!

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