Senior Scientific Director, Neurodegenerative Diseases

🕒 September 29

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $265k - $300k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👔 Director

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Danaher Corporation

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10,000+ employees

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

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Danaher Corporation is a leading global life sciences and diagnostics innovator that develops and supplies instruments, technologies, software, and services to accelerate scientific research, biotechnology development, and clinical diagnostics. The company operates through businesses focused on biotechnology tools, diagnostics platforms, and life sciences products, leveraging the Danaher Business System and an acquisition-driven strategy to scale technologies and support customers across academia, pharmaceutical and biotech companies, and clinical laboratories.

📋 Description

• Shape scientific strategy for Danaher Diagnostics’ neurodegenerative disease franchise • Translate strategy into integrated evidence plans guiding portfolio, technology roadmap and product development decisions • Lead flagship research programs end-to-end, including academic partnerships and a multimodal patient registry • Own scientific design, execution, milestones and readouts • Design and chair advisory boards and leadership forums • Build and represent expert networks across academia, consortia and societies • Partner with diagnostics, biopharma and academic collaborators on research, validation studies and publications • Evaluate external innovation and partnership opportunities in neurodegeneration • Shape investment recommendations with the Chief Scientific Officer • Embed Danaher Business System standard work, metrics and AI-enabled practices across the scientific agenda • Lead through scientific authority and cross-functional influence rather than direct people management

🎯 Requirements

• MD, MD/PhD or PhD in medicine, neuroscience or a related discipline • Extensive post-qualification experience in diagnostics, biopharma, biotechnology or academic medicine • Significant senior scientific, clinical or translational leadership experience engaging external expert networks and scientific advisory boards at global scale • Deep expertise in neurologic disease biomarker development from discovery through clinical deployment • Working knowledge of assay performance characteristics and pre-analytical variables • Understanding of analytical validation, clinical validation and clinical utility • Experience leading clinical strategy and evidence generation programs in neurodegenerative disease or an adjacent specialty area • Accountability for study design, execution against committed timelines, readout and publication • Working knowledge of in vitro diagnostic product development • Knowledge of regulatory pathways including United States Food and Drug Administration clearance and European Union In Vitro Diagnostic Regulation • Knowledge of evidence requirements supporting diagnostic claims • Ability to author and critically review protocols, study reports and peer-reviewed manuscripts • Ability to condense scientific work into executive decision materials • Ability to travel approximately 30%, domestically and internationally, including overnight travel • Medical degree with clinical experience in neurology, psychiatry, geriatrics or a related specialty is strongly preferred • Previous clinical care provision for patients with neurologic and neurodegenerative disorders is a plus • Previous biospecimen or clinical data repository creation and oversight, multimodal data platform programs, and real-world evidence generation is a plus • Previous biopharma companion diagnostic collaborations or master research agreements in neurology is a plus • Danaher Business System or equivalent operational excellence framework experience is a plus • Recognized standing in the neurodegeneration field is a plus

🏖️ Benefits

• Bonus/incentive pay eligibility • Paid time off • Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • 401(k) • Flexible, remote working arrangement • Reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities