.Precision Medicine Lead - Chronic DiseasesMacclesfield (UK), Gothenburg (Sweden), Warsaw (Poland) and Barcelona (Spain).Could you provide the scientific leadership in Precision Medicine that enables a world-leading biopharmaceutical company to change the way healthcare is delivered to individual patients? At AstraZeneca, we're looking for Precision Medicine Leads to join our Precision Medicine and Biosamples department. Join a place built on innovation and creativity, where different views and perspectives are encouraged and valued. An environment that nurtures inclusion, and teams that reflect the diversity of the communities that we serve.We're passionate about providing medicines that make a real difference to patient care, and precision medicine is at the heart of our dedication to patient centric science and innovation. You'll be working alongside some of the brightest scientific talents in a vibrant, creative environment. With outstanding facilities, you'll find yourself being able to immerse yourself in your work, advance your career and contribute towards scientific excellence. It's a place that inspires innovation and where research-led ideas are turned into new medicines that make a real difference in healthcare.As well as thriving in our multidisciplinary setting, you will able to work collaboratively with external diagnostic companies and outstanding research institutes.What you'll do As a member of the Biopharmaceutical Precision Medicine Unit you will drive precision medicine across a wide range of chronic disease areas. Your objective will be to ensure that complementary & companion diagnostic tests, or equivalent patient segmentation tools, are delivered to drug projects. This will entail implementing the strategy agreed with early and late stage project teams and leading activities comprising scientific & technical aspects of test development, test deployment into clinical trials, enabling regulatory & intellectual property strategies and financial tracking.Providing advice on strategy, approaches and diagnostic development to product teams, you will be fundamental in ensuring that we adopt outstanding ordinary practice in the field to increase the likelihood of successful drug launch and return on investment. You will explore and bring in new technologies to push the boundaries of diagnostics in chronic disease and help to establish AstraZeneca as the world leading Precision Medicine Company
