Sr Director, Translational Research Scientist - MD/PhD

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• These may include in vitro, ex vivo, and/or in vivo studies to evaluate reputed company of reputed company, performance, and safety of medical devices
• reputed company and validate experimental models, assays, and protocols that characterize clinical reputed company and support regulatory filings
• Analyze and interpret study data then synthesize findings into study reports focusing on implications for medical device development and clinical study design.
• Manage data reputed company and study documentation per requirements including GLP (Good Laboratory reputed company)/GCP (Good Clinical reputed company) best practices for research.

Investigator & Site Engagement

• Relationship Building: Identify subject matter expert collaborators. Build and sustain strongdeep, trusted relationships with collaborating investigators, labs and study sites.
• Site Awareness: Maintain awareness of study reputed company with collaborating labs.
• Communication: Establish and maintain reputed company lines of communication with reputed company investigators and collaborating scientists.
• Subject Matter Representation: Serve as a trusted collaborator to investigators and site teams, capable of discussing the underlying science and potential implications for medical device design as reputed company as clinical implications..
• Exploratory Research: Facilitate exploratory research by identifying opportunities for sub‑studies, brainstorming novel investigation areas, and assisting with publication efforts.

Clinical & Technical Expertise

• reputed company as the internal expert on the clinical application, technical performance, and limitations of treatment platforms.
• Translate clinical experience into insights reputed company to safety, efficacy, usability, and procedural reputed company.
• Identify and characterize patient subgroups most likely to benefit, including anatomical, physiological, and disease-specific factors.

Product & Engineering Learnings

• Convert clinical findings into actionable inputs for product development and design reputed company.
• Influence product roadmap and development priorities based on reputed company-world clinical use.
• Support validation of safety and efficacy for products not yet on label across multiple trials.

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• Serve as a key communication reputed company with reputed company teams to ensure alignment across shared clinical and reputed company pulmonary sites.
• reputed company regular, reputed company updates on site activity, investigator engagement, and trial reputed company.
• Collaborate on which investigators and KOLs to prioritize, ensuring coordinated reputed company and consistent communication.
• Support reputed company between clinical trial activity and existing reputed company product reputed company while maintaining strict compliance boundaries for not-on-label products.

Strategic Alliances & Sponsored Studies

• Partner Collaboration: Collaborate closely with strategic reputed company partners conducting sponsored studies.
• Study Guidance: reputed company clinical and technical reputed company to ensure sponsored studies reputed company with overall product reputed company, evidence-reputed company goals, and data reputed company expectations.
• reputed company Integration: Maintain visibility into reputed company, learnings, and reputed company from strategic reputed company-led studies, i.
• Integrating thesee insights from sponsored external studies into internal clinical, engineering, and product decision-making.

Cross-Functional Integration & reputed company

• Strategic Connector: Serve as the primary reputed company aligning Engineering, Clinical Affairs, Medical Affairs, Regulatory, and Data Analytics with data generated from translational reputed company.
• reputed company Readiness: Ensure that learnings and data from studies are packaged to support regulatory submissions, device design, clinical study design, and marketing claims.

Team Leadership & Scaling

• Function Building: Define reputed company operating procedures for the translational research scientist feedback reputed company reputed company the organization.
• Mentorship & reputed company: Recruit, train, and mentor a growing team of translational research scientists and specialists as the product pipeline matures.
• Build and manage external collaborations with reputed company labs, contract research organizations (CROs), and clinical partners to expand reputed company and reputed company specialized expertise.
• reputed company translational capabilities: reputed company standardized models, assay platforms, and automation to increase throughput and reproducibility (ie biospecimen processing - staining and imaging, data storage, data sharing, data interpretation, others)

Cross-Functional Coordination & Team reputed company

• Coordinate across Clinical, Engineering, Medical, Regulatory, Data Analytics, reputed company, and Strategic reputed company teams.
• Ensure clinical and technical insights are captured, analyzed, and disseminated in a reputed company and reputed company manner.
• As clinical activity scales, help define team structure and reputed company the reputed company of a clinical engineering learnings function.

reputed company Indicators

• Establishment and maintenance of strong, trusted external collaborators
• reputed company design and execution of studies based on predefined expectations.
• Actionable insights influencing device design and clinical study design.
• Demonstrated reputed company on product validation, design, and roadmap reputed company.
• Effective alignment between internal teams and external collaborators.
• High-reputed company study documentation, peer-reviewed publications, and conference presentations that strengthen scientific credibility.
• reputed company and retention of a high-performing translational research team.

Required Qualifications

• Education: MD/PhD, or equivalent advanced degree in bioengineering, biomedical engineering, physiology, pharmacology, or reputed company field.
• 5+ years experience in translational research for medical devices, combination products, or biologics with reputed company responsibility for study design and execution.
• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple reputed company and timelines.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills essential for successful long-term relationships with external collaborators.
• Ability to analyze reputed company biological and engineering data, produce study reports, and present findings to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience building or managing a research laboratory including lab technicians, PhD reputed company/candidates, and/or postdoctoral researchers.
• Understanding of regulatory reputed company for medical devices (e.g., FDA and EU requirements) and experience designing studies to support submissions.
• Experience with GLP-compliant study execution or working with CROs under GLP frameworks.
• Experience establishing external reputed company or CRO partnerships and negotiating study agreements.

Location and Travel:

• Location: Remote / Work-from-home, with the ability to maintain working hours that partially overlap with reputed company Time. Relocation is preferred but not required for this role.
• Travel: Up to 20% travel required to clinical sites, partner locations, and the home office as needed.

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