Director of Preclinical Research (Durham, NC)
- Awarding and managing grants, guiding collaborations, and outsourcing internally-conceived projects
- Developing, acquiring, and distributing research-enabling resources
- Establishing and maintaining relationships and alliances with investigators, companies, and other stakeholders around the world
- New, full-time position on the client research team
- Position is office-based (not lab-based)
- Travel 4-8 times per year for team meetings, collaborator/grantee visits and conferences
- Reports to the Chief Scientific Officer (CSO)
- Local or remote candidates are encouraged to apply
- Preferred start date is August 2025
Preclinical research grants:
- Oversee our preclinical grants portfolio and manage the entire lifecycle of grantmaking activities, including RFP development, inviting/recruiting applicants, peer review, grant awards, and progress reporting
- Review progress reports, attend progress update meetings, record notes, offer scientific feedback
- Arm grantees with research-enabling resources, help them navigate barriers, identify opportunities for collaboration based on your bird’s eye view of the research ecosystem
- Identify appropriate opportunities to outsource projects to contract research vendors to advance our goals
- Oversee all aspects of the vendor management process including selection, project scoping, ensuring execution on time and on budget, and data analysis
- Assist CSO with the in vivo evaluation of promising therapeutic concepts in Client mouse models to develop rationale for new clinical trials
- Oversee our repositories of models, biospecimens, and data, and manage associated vendors
- Distribute models, biospecimens, and data in support of global research efforts
- Identify and import new datasets or models developed by researchers into our repositories to facilitate resource centralization
- Stimulate the development of new preclinical models to fill gaps in our current repository, including immunocompetent models
- Assist CSO in forging and maintaining relationships with external stakeholders across our various research programs
- Facilitate effective and efficient preclinical research collaborations with academic investigators and companies
- Stimulate new research by recruiting investigators with relevant interests and capabilities and educating them about our research-enabling resources
- Assist CSO in writing grant applications to support internal research
- Develop new knowledge through attendance at relevant conferences, workshops, symposia, and staying up to date on the scientific literature
- Help our Development and Engagement teams develop research-related updates for various constituents, donors and funders
- Update and further develop content and resources on our website for researchers
- PhD, MD, PharmD or equivalent degree in the biological sciences
- At least 5 years of industry experience in oncology R&D
- Prior experience building and maintaining strategic relationships with CROs, companies, and academic researchers to achieve research goals
- Adept at navigating bureaucracies, can effectively persuade and influence external stakeholders
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Experience with research grants (writing, reviewing, and/or managing)
- Highly organized, can effectively multitask and deliver results across multiple projects
- High agency, proactive, takes initiative, makes decisions independently, escalates issues when appropriate
- Must be legally authorized for employment in the U.S. We are not able to sponsor visas at this time
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