Principal Scientist, Nonclinical Safety Lead

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Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com

Job Function:
Discovery & Pre-Clinical/Clinical Development

Job Sub Function:
Nonclinical Safety

Job Category:
Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations:
Spring House, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Job Description:

About Innovative Medicine

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Visionaries like you work on teams that save lives by developing the medicines of tomorrow.

Join us in developing treatments, finding cures, and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way.

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Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine R&D is recruiting for a Principal Scientist, Nonclinical Safety Lead Nonclinical Safety Lead within Preclinical Sciences and Translational Safety (PSTS).  This position is a hybrid role and will be located in Spring House, PA.

As a Principal Scientist, Nonclinical Safety (NCS) Lead, you will collaborate with innovative and diverse scientists to support projects in our large and varied portfolio that spans multiple therapeutic areas and includes innovative modalities.  In this vital role you will provide toxicology leadership for all aspects of discovery and development projects, with flexibility to specialize or work across stages of development, therapy areas, and modalities.  You will also collaborate with discovery scientists to identify and nominate candidate molecules, and with development teams bring these molecules to humans and ultimately through global registration.

Principal Responsibilities:


* Represent NCS on global discovery and development project teams, serving as the single point of contact within NCS to the project team for toxicology expertise and guidance, and as the interface between the project team and senior management.


* Lead the team of nonclinical safety and Pharmacokinetic (PK) scientists (PSTS team) working on a project.

 Ensure the smooth transfer of necessary information to functional areas within PSTS in conjunction with the PSTS team.


* Collaborate with multi-disciplinary project teams to de-risk drug candidates and support clinical development.  Provide input to the clinical protocols, informed consent forms, and monitoring based on nonclinical findings, target expression and target risk.


* Create target liability assessments and develop fit-for-purpose...