Vir Biotechnology is looking for an experienced and highly motivated scientist to join our Clinical Virology team in a leadership role, reporting to the Director, Clinical Virology, focused on managing pre-clinical research and clinical development of novel therapies for infectious diseases. You will independently lead clinical virology activities for a therapeutic area, including management of virology activities for non-clinical studies, clinical trials, characterization of viral resistance, and support pharmacology contributions for regulatory submissions. You will work cross-functionally across research and development groups within the company to advance programs through clinical development. This role can be remote or onsite at our San Francisco facility.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES:

• You will independently support clinical virology activities for clinical trials, from study start up through study report delivery, including representing virology in study management and clinical sub teams
• You will directly manage scientists,  external contract research labs to support clinical virology deliverables, including working cross functionally to meet timelines and budgets for clinical virology assays.
• Author clinical virology reports, pharmacology reports, and sections of key clinical and regulatory documents.
• Oversee establishment of assays and experiments, and analysis of data to support clinical trials, including assay development in-house or outsourced, through implementation into clinical programs
• Investigate the feasibility of applying a wide variety of scientific principles and concepts and/or development strategies in research and development.
• Conduct important scientific research to develop novel infectious disease therapies and interpret experimental data to determine follow-up activities.
• You will lead non-clinical pharmacology data packages for regulatory submissions, including authoring and review of IND documents
• Provide updates to management teams on status of pre-clinical and clinical virology activities.
• Stakeholder management with internal business partners, key opinion leaders, and external partners on clinical studies

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:

• PhD with 8+ years of relevant experience or equivalent degree/experience in virology, microbiology, or a related field.
• Experience supporting clinical trials and/or working with clinical samples required
• Background in respiratory viruses and other chronic viral diseases highly desirable
• Prior experience managing scientists, contract labs and/or working across companies
• Proficiency in cell-based virology and molecular biology techniques, including assay development. Experience in cell-based viral quantification, viral sequencing, and viral resistance is highly desirable.
• Ability to work in a high paced inter-disciplinary and cross functional team environment, meet deadlines and prioritize work from multiple projects.
• Excellent communication skills and strong project management and organizational skills are essential.

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