Scientific Director, Global Medical Affairs - ATTR
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals
10 hours ago
Remote friendly (Cambridge, MA)
United States
Medical Affairs
Key Responsibilities
- Serve as a scientific SME contributing to global publication strategy, planning, and execution.
- Draft, review, and critically edit scientific manuscripts, abstracts, posters, slide decks, and congress materials.
- Provide scientific leadership on data interpretation and scientific storytelling, ensuring accuracy, clarity, and alignment with the evidence strategy.
- Support development, review, and execution of the integrated evidence generation plan across the ATTR franchise.
- Support IIS, research collaborations, Phase 4, post-marketing, post-hoc analyses, and real-world evidence activities, including scientific review, study/analyses design, feasibility assessment, data interpretation, and ongoing oversight.
- Lead protocol development and review across evidence generation activities, with focus on scientific rigor and relevance.
- Collaborate with Global Medical Leads, Publications/Scientific Communications, Clinical Research, Regulatory, HEOR, and Commercial partners to ensure alignment and scientific integrity.
- Support cross-functional deep dives led by Value Evidence Strategy teams, synthesizing scientific/clinical data into clear written outputs.
- Provide scientific input to business development and licensing (BD&L) due diligence, including literature reviews, data gap assessments, and scientific risk evaluation.
- Contribute to internal briefing documents, scientific summaries, and strategic analyses for senior leadership.
- Serve as a trusted internal scientific reviewer for medical materials, protocols, and external-facing scientific content.
- Ensure all activities adhere to medical governance, compliance, and ethical standards.
Qualifications
- PharmD, PhD, or MD
- 3–5+ years of relevant experience in the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry
- Experience in cardiovascular, renal, metabolic, or ATTR disease areas (strongly preferred)
- Demonstrated primary authorship and substantial contribution to peer-reviewed publications
- Strong experience in medical/scientific/grant writing and in reviewing or developing clinical or post-marketing study protocols
- Prior exposure to BD due diligence or structured scientific evaluations (strongly preferred)
- Strong aptitude for written scientific work (writing-focused role)
- Ability to critically analyze data and translate complex science into clear written narratives
- Serve as a scientific SME contributing to global publication strategy, planning, and execution.
- Draft, review, and critically edit scientific manuscripts, abstracts, posters, slide decks, and congress materials.
- Provide scientific leadership on data interpretation and scientific storytelling, ensuring accuracy, clarity, and alignment with the evidence strategy.
- Support development, review, and execution of the integrated evidence generation plan across the ATTR franchise.
- Support IIS, research collaborations, Phase 4, post-marketing, post-hoc analyses, and real-world evidence activities, including scientific review, study/analyses design, feasibility assessment, data interpretation, and ongoing oversight.
- Lead protocol development and review across evidence generation activities, with focus on scientific rigor and relevance.
- Collaborate with Global Medical Leads, Publications/Scientific Communications, Clinical Research, Regulatory, HEOR, and Commercial partners to ensure alignment and scientific integrity.
- Support cross-functional deep dives led by Value Evidence Strategy teams, synthesizing scientific/clinical data into clear written outputs.
- Provide scientific input to business development and licensing (BD&L) due diligence, including literature reviews, data gap assessments, and scientific risk evaluation.
- Contribute to internal briefing documents, scientific summaries, and strategic analyses for senior leadership.
- Serve as a trusted internal scientific reviewer for medical materials, protocols, and external-facing scientific content.
- Ensure all activities adhere to medical governance, compliance, and ethical standards.
Qualifications
- PharmD, PhD, or MD
- 3–5+ years of relevant experience in the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry
- Experience in cardiovascular, renal, metabolic, or ATTR disease areas (strongly preferred)
- Demonstrated primary authorship and substantial contribution to peer-reviewed publications
- Strong experience in medical/scientific/grant writing and in reviewing or developing clinical or post-marketing study protocols
- Prior exposure to BD due diligence or structured scientific evaluations (strongly preferred)
- Strong aptitude for written scientific work (writing-focused role)
- Ability to critically analyze data and translate complex science into clear written narratives