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About the Role
The Senior Scientific Director, Neurodegenerative Diseases is a senior scientific leader responsible for shaping the scientific and clinical agenda for Danaher Diagnostics’ neurodegenerative disease franchise. This role contributes to franchise strategy, portfolio direction, and partnership decisions, independently leading scientific programs from concept to readout and providing expertise across others. It is ideal for a physician-scientist or senior clinical researcher seeking broad portfolio involvement.
Responsibilities
- Shape scientific strategy for the neurodegenerative disease franchise, translating it into integrated evidence plans that guide portfolio, technology roadmap, and product development decisions.
- Lead flagship research programs end-to-end, including academic partnerships and a multimodal patient registry, owning scientific design, execution, milestones, and readouts.
- Drive external scientific insight by designing and chairing advisory boards and leadership forums to inform internal strategy and decision-making.
- Build and represent expert networks across academia, consortia, and societies while partnering with diagnostics, biopharma, and academic collaborators on research, validation studies, and publications.
- Evaluate external innovation and partnership opportunities in neurodegeneration, shaping investment recommendations with the CSO and embedding DBS standard work, metrics, and AI-enabled practices across the scientific agenda.
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 time in senior scientific, clinical or translational leadership roles engaging external expert networks and scientific advisory boards at global scale.
- A medical degree with clinical experience in neurology, psychiatry, geriatrics or a related specialty is strongly preferred.
- Deep expertise in biomarker development for neurologic disease, spanning discovery through clinical deployment.
- Working command of assay performance characteristics, pre-analytical variables and the distinction between analytical validation, clinical validation and clinical utility.
- Demonstrated experience leading clinical strategy and evidence generation programs in neurodegenerative disease or an adjacent specialty area, with personal accountability for study design, execution against committed timelines, readout and publication.
- Working knowledge of in vitro diagnostic product development, regulatory pathways such as United States Food and Drug Administration clearance and the European Union In Vitro Diagnostic Regulation, and the evidence requirements supporting diagnostic claims.
- Scientific writing and communication strength sufficient to author and critically review protocols, study reports and peer-reviewed manuscripts, and to condense the same body of work into executive decision materials.
Skills
- Biomarker development for neurologic disease
- Assay performance characteristics
- Pre-analytical variables
- Analytical validation
- Clinical validation
- Clinical utility
- Clinical strategy and evidence generation programs
- In vitro diagnostic product development
- Regulatory pathways (FDA, IVDR)
- Scientific writing and communication
- External innovation evaluation
- Partnership development
Location
- Global
- Remote
Work Type
- Remote
Experience Level
- Senior
- Extensive post-qualification experience
- Significant time in senior scientific, clinical or translational leadership roles
Education Level
- MD
- MD/PhD
- PhD in medicine, neuroscience or a related discipline
- Medical degree with clinical experience in neurology, psychiatry, geriatrics or a related specialty
Salary/Compensations
- $265K-$300K
- Eligible for bonus/incentive pay
Benefits
- Paid time off
- Medical/dental/vision insurance
- 401(k)
About the Company
- Danaher Diagnostics is accelerating the development of cutting-edge diagnostics to solve pressing health challenges.
- They drive innovation through partnerships with top academic institutions and leading players in biopharma and translational research.
- The company aims to expand access to precision diagnostics worldwide using its global scale and proven playbook.
- Danaher Corporation and its companies are committed to equal opportunity.
- For more information, visit www.danaher.com.
Equal Opportunity
- Danaher Corporation and all Danaher Companies are committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other characteristics protected by law.
- The U.S. EEO posters are available here.
- We comply with federal and state disability laws and make reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities.