Senior Translational Neuroscience Lead

Bristol-Myers Squibb Co; Princeton (NJ); On-site; USD 160,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

Bristol Myers Squibb seeks an Associate Director, Translational Medicine, Neuroscience in Princeton, NJ, to lead translational strategies for Alzheimer’s/neurological diseases and collaborate with IT, bioinformatics, and clinical teams.

The role requires a PhD in neuroscience, 8+ years post-PhD experience, and a track record of high-impact publications. This position sits within a hybrid work framework, offering deep scientific impact and collaboration across disciplines.

Qualifications

• PhD degree in a neuroscience-related field.
• Minimum of 8 years post-PhD experience, with demonstrated scientific leadership in integrating, analyzing, and interpreting multimodal biological data in an academic and/or industry setting.
• Strong background in neuroscience with focus on Alzheimer’s disease, human genetics/genomics, molecular and cellular biology; knowledge in immunology is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Develops and executes translational disease strategy in Alzheimer’s /Neurological disease areas with deep disease expertise.
• Leads and oversees execution of disease strategy including patient selection strategies.
• Serves as scientific expert in generating novel hypotheses for targetable biologies based on discoveries across literature and neuroscience.
• Manages cross-functional disease project teams with key interfaces in IT, bioinformatics, data science, stats, external collaborators, contractors, and asset leads.
• Maintains relationships with translational clinicians for identifying new opportunities and disease insights.
• Identifies needs, gaps and translational disease questions and applies knowledge across assets in neuroscience.
• Leads collaborations with academia and industry to identify biobanks, clinical trials and datasets to mine for biomarkers.

Skills

Neuroscience

Alzheimer’s disease

Genomics

Molecular biology

Data analysis

Education

PhD in neuroscience-related field

Job description

Bristol Myers Squibb seeks an Associate Director, Translational Medicine, Neuroscience in Princeton, NJ, to lead translational strategies for Alzheimer’s/neurological diseases and collaborate with IT, bioinformatics, and clinical teams.

The role requires a PhD in neuroscience, 8+ years post-PhD experience, and a track record of high-impact publications. This position sits within a hybrid work framework, offering deep scientific impact and collaboration across disciplines.