.Position: Director Clinical Imaging, Early Clinical DevelopmentLocation: Gaithersburg or Barcelona or Waltham (Boston)Competitive Salary & Excellent Company BenefitsAre you passionate about science and want to provide scientific and clinical input to all aspects of early stage clinical development? Do you have imaging expertise and work at the cutting edge of science to develop the ground-breaking medicines of the future? Then join us to discover future treatments of Respiratory & Immunology diseases!We now have an exciting new role as a Director, Early Clinical Research, with key focus in delivering clinical imaging. This role is within Early Clinical Development, Respiratory & Immunology (R&I) and the position can be placed either in Waltham/US, Gaithersburg/US or Barcelona/Spain.Early R&I within AstraZeneca is accountable for the discovery and the development (up to phase III) of new drugs in the R&I arena. Clinical Development within Early R&I consists of experienced clinical leaders with a scientific and medical background who, in a collaborative manner, define clinical development strategy, design innovative clinical trials and translate novel scientific ideas to proof-of-concept in target populations. Imaging is seen as a key strategic capability for clinical development for the futureWhat you'll do?This role is key to delivering the integration of clinical imaging across R&I indications in early-stage clinical trials. Through close working with experimental medicine colleagues, you will provide strategic and technical expertise into the conception and implementation of imaging endpoints to be included in all phases of clinical development.In this role, you will represent imaging on cross-functional Global Project Teams (GPTs) and Clinical Program Teams (CPTs) to support development of imaging strategy and subsequent implementation into clinical trials. You will support the implementation of imaging protocols across development programs, input into key study documents and the imaging charter, and provide oversight of quality of imaging data and processes. You will lead early engagement with project teams to further the clinical imaging strategy, including identification of the need for, and subsequent design and conduct of, enabling/method development studies.You will also have or develop a broad understanding of the landscape of evolving imaging technology and vendors working within the imaging space globally. You will identify and build collaborations with key internal (preclinical & translational imaging groups and clinical groups within other TAs) and external experts across academia and industry including academic groups, as well as imaging contract research organisations (CROs) and niche image analysis labs