Clinical Development Director or VP, Oncology

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

Riboscience is a clinical stage biotechnology company developing treatments for serious infectious diseases and cancer.  We apply ribose and structure-guided design technologies to the discovery of drugs that target proteins that are essential and unique to specific infectious pathogens, tumor cells or the anti-tumor immune response.  We are looking for diverse talent to join our team and share with us the passion and excitement in making highly impactful new medicines available to patients with severe infectious diseases or cancer.  Riboscience is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area with locations in Sunnyvale and Palo Alto.

OPEN POSITION SUMMARY

Location: 
San Francisco Bay Area or remote

Role:
We seek a physician scientist with the expertise to design and lead clinical trials for the development of novel treatments in oncology. The ideal candidate has led successful early development programs (Ph1/2) in oncology including the generation of program-specific TPPs and overseeing medical, regulatory and operational activities.  The successful candidate will have excellent oral and written communication skills, can effectively work in multifunctional teams, has already and will continue to publish in high quality scientific, technical or medical journals and present at internal and external meetings. 

General Responsibilities:

  • Perform medical need and clinical development landscape analyses to support program-specific
    TPP generation, including target population and safety, PK and efficacy targets.

  • Establish program clinical team, design and execute clinical trials for early development programs in oncology, including authoring clinical sections for regulatory documents and overseeing clinical operations activities.

  • Identify study sites, establish and maintain effective working relationships with PIs and clinical staff.

  • Present clinical development updates to the Management Team.

  • Establish a program-specific external communication plan, and prepare presentations and manuscripts for publication. 

Experience:

  • An MD, PhD or MD/PhD degree

  • Expert understanding of treatment strategies in oncology, established and in development, treatment response and resistance mechanisms, including immune therapies.

  • Excellent communication, team building, and leadership skills that establish a can-do culture, foster effective team participation and engagement of external experts and advisors, and enables fast and robust data-driven decision making and project management.

  • Computational skills, working knowledge in statistics, standard software applications for writing, presenting, publishing, database analyses.

  • High scientific impact publication record.

How to Apply

Please send a cover letter and a copy of your CV to careers@riboscience.com