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Company Description
At Biogen, our mission is clear: we are pioneers in neuroscience. Since our founding in 1978 as one of the world’s first global biotechnology companies, Biogen has led innovative scientific research with the goal over the last decade to defeat devastating neurological diseases
Job Description:
This is a field position, critical to establishing and maintaining excellent educational and research collaborations with Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs), other investigators (basic and clinical research) and key academic institutions to build outstanding biology of disease and pipeline awareness and advocacy.
Responsible for establishing, fostering, cultivating and maintaining relationships with KOLs and other HCPs (nurse, pharmacist, etc) with the end goal of building advocacy leading to a strong franchise. Serves as a conduit for accurate and updated clinical, scientific and medical information between KOLs, other investigators and the company's Medical Affairs group. Assures that scientific and product information is current, relevant and readily available.
Acts as a field-based conduit for the receipt of proposals and subsequent communications related to Biogen funded Investigator Initiated Trials (IITs). Assists with communications related to Biogen sponsored trials.
Qualifications:
- Experience with basic and clinical research, knowledge of relevant clinical and scientific institutions and teaching hospitals and universities.
- Able to drive in order to cover geography of territory..
- Knowledgeable in local regulatory, commercial and clinical issues affecting the pharmaceutical industry.
- At least 2 years of relevant experience in industry, academic or clinical setting.
- Desirable to have some experience as a Medical Science Liaison. Preferable in rare diseases.
- Have a critic understanding of basic and clinical research.
- Basic understanding of Pharmacoeconomic studies
- Fluency in English.
- MD (Neurology, Physiatry, Pediatric, Neuro-pediatric or related therapeutic areas) or MSc, MBA or PhD (Neuroscience, or related Scientific Areas [Immunology, Molecular Biology or Human Genetic])
- Medical and/or scientific expertise in the field of neuroscience, immunology, molecular biology, and/or human genetic or other rare diseases like genetic or metabolic ones.