Natera
Translational Medical Scientist
Job Summary
The Translational Medical Scientist role focuses on applying genomic data, particularly circulating tumor DNA, to advance oncology healthcare. The position requires collaboration with clinicians, scientists, and industry partners to develop research strategies and analyze biological and clinical questions. Candidates should hold a Ph.D. in fields like Molecular Biology, Genomics, or Cancer Biology, with experience in genomic analysis and bioinformatics tools. The role involves translating research findings into clinical impact and facilitating scientific communication and publication efforts.
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Job Description
POSITION SUMMARY:
The Translational Medical Scientist contributes to partnerships with clinicians, product managers, and key opinion leaders (KOLs) in applying genomic data to advance healthcare. This position in the Oncology department focuses on the detection and analysis of circulating tumor DNA to inform clinical decisions and improve outcomes in patients with solid and hematological malignancies.
The cross functional Translational Medicine role requires extensive collaboration with internal stakeholders and external strategic research partners, pharmaceutical companies, and KOLs to integrate genomic and clinical data across multiple high-impact projects in a fast-paced environment.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Work with Sr. Scientists, clinicians, product managers, and key opinion leaders to transform product requirements into technical specifications for future oncology products using circulating tumor DNA.
Collaborate with molecular biologists, computational biologists, and statisticians to build research strategies that solve challenging problems.
Collaborate with sample accessioning team, legal dept, and R&D to draft contracts and execute research projects.
Perform genomic analysis to explore biological, scientific, and clinical questions in oncology and translating results to impact patient care.
Lead internal efforts on oncology knowledge management and curation.
Collaborate with external partnerships, include academics, biotechnology companies, pharmaceutical companies.
Communicate results and findings of analyses to academic researchers and collaborate to publish findings in high impact journals.
Work with business and biological teams to understand the research landscape and technology options.
Performs other duties as assigned.
This role works with PHI on a regular basis both in paper and electronic form and have an access to various technologies to access PHI (paper and electronic) in order to perform the job.
Employee must complete training relating to HIPAA/PHI privacy, General Policies and Procedure Compliance training and security training as soon as possible but not later than the first 30 days of hire.
Must maintain a current status on Natera training requirements.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Ph.D. in Molecular Biology, Genomics, Cancer Biology, Genetics, or equivalent required.
Minimum of 2 years of relevant experience.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:
Solid scientific understanding or education background in oncology – including diagnostics and therapeutics.
Specific experience with ctDNA is preferred.
Knowledgeable and experience in the use and optimization of novel technologies and understand the competitive landscape.
Knowledge of cancer from both a basic biology and molecular perspective.
Working knowledge of basic bioinformatics and genomics sequencing analysis techniques.
Knowledge of data mining and statistical analysis tools such as R, SQL, or Stata is a plus.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills are required.
Strong organizational and interpersonal skills will be needed in our cross functional team.
OUR OPPORTUNITY
Natera™ is a global leader in cell-free DNA (cfDNA) testing, dedicated to oncology, women’s health, and organ health. Our aim is to make personalized genetic testing and diagnostics part of the standard of care to protect health and enable earlier and more targeted interventions that lead to longer, healthier lives.
The Natera team consists of highly dedicated statisticians, geneticists, doctors, laboratory scientists, business professionals, software engineers and many other professionals from world-class institutions, who care deeply for our work and each other. When you join Natera, you’ll work hard and grow quickly. Working alongside the elite of the industry, you’ll be stretched and challenged, and take pride in being part of a company that is changing the landscape of genetic disease management.
WHAT WE OFFER
Competitive Benefits - Employee benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life and disability plans for eligible employees and their dependents. Additionally, Natera employees and their immediate families receive free testing in addition to fertility care benefits. Other benefits include pregnancy and baby bonding leave, 401k benefits, commuter benefits and much more. We also offer a generous employee referral program!
For more information, visit www.natera.com.
Natera is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace environment, and welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. Inclusive collaboration benefits our employees, our community and our patients, and is critical to our mission of changing the management of disease worldwide.
All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply, and will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable laws.
If you are based in California, we encourage you to read this important information for California residents.
Link: https://www.natera.com/notice-of-data-collection-california-residents/
Please be advised that Natera will reach out to candidates with a @natera.com email domain ONLY. Email communications from all other domain names are not from Natera or its employees and are fraudulent. Natera does not request interviews via text messages and does not ask for personal information until a candidate has engaged with the company and has spoken to a recruiter and the hiring team. Natera takes cyber crimes seriously, and will collaborate with law enforcement authorities to prosecute any related cyber crimes.
For more information:
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Natera
Dedicated to oncology, women’s health, and organ health. Natera’s cell-free DNA tests help protect health and inform more personalized decisions about care.
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