The Associate Director of Clinical Imaging is accountable for providing multimodality imaging guidance and expertise; delivering imaging endpoints and solutions for early to late-stage trials in Neuroscience, Respiratory, Immunology, Dermatology, Hepatology, Renal and GI; and identifying and developing imaging biomarkers to enable decision-making. Primary responsibilities will be identification, selection, and delivery of imaging endpoints for clinical trials in Neuroscience, although other therapeutic areas will be in scope. Studies are executed through externalized trials with CROs, internal and external collaborations, and analysis of imaging databases.

GSK’s Clinical Imaging group is part of the Clinical Biomarkers and Correlative Sciences group and sits within the Precision Medicine organization which broader strategic focus on using technologies to select the right-patient and right-dose.

This role will have a strong networking component to identify new opportunities, applications, and/or diseases to broaden the impact Clinical Imaging can have to provide decision-making data to study teams at GSK.

The individual will also be expected to develop appropriate translational strategies for decision-making studies and developing imaging approaches, analyses, and applications between Clinical Imaging, Bioimaging, AI/ML, Operations, and other relevant departments via cross-matrix collaboration.

Key Responsibilities:

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career, these responsibilities include some of the following…

• Provide leadership and deliver imaging endpoints from Ph1 to Ph4 assets primarily in Neuroscience, but with scope to support Respiratory, Immunology, Hepatology, GI, Renal, and Dermatology

• Facilitate selection of optimal imaging endpoints, support innovative design and delivery in multicenter studies

• Resource the studies appropriately to ensure high-quality imaging data, support analysis and interpretation of results and initiatives to enable data reuse

• Assist with developing Clinical Imaging strategies for addressing GSK’s emerging disease areas of interest, and adjust the strategy according to pipeline changes

• Assess the external landscape, with a focus on specialist imaging CRO Vendors, for current and emerging imaging endpoints to support GSK’s portfolio

• Support Vendor onboarding and Vendor oversight activities

• Support initiatives across the wider Precision Medicine and Development organization

Why you?

Minimum Qualifications:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• BS in relevant biomedical, life science or related field of study

• Experience in clinical imaging, with scientific and practical knowledge of multiple radiological imaging modalities (PET, MRI, CT)

• Biological experience of Neuroscience imaging applications

• Experience in performing quantitative image analysis

• Experience in leading and delivering imaging-endpoints within clinical trials (phase 1-4)

• Experience across the lifecycle of multicenter studies delivering standard, regulatory; and advanced, non-regulatory imaging endpoints across multiple therapeutic areas

• Experience in clinical research working within an imaging CRO or within a large pharmaceutical company

Preferred Qualifications:

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• Medical or PhD degree with imaging experience in drug development

• Detailed biological knowledge of other disease areas outside of Neuroscience

• Advanced PET expertise

• Clinical radiology experience and deep understanding of the use of clinical radiology imaging modalities across multiple disease areas

• Hands-on experience with clinical imaging in a research or hospital environment

• Experience in operational aspects of implementing imaging in multicenter clinical trials, with an emphasis on late-stage clinical development

• Experience with vendor capability assessment and oversight

• Experience in authoring scientific articles and clinical development documents

• Good communication and influencing skills with a demonstrated capacity to work effectively in multidisciplinary teams

• Proactive, flexible, and results-oriented

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