Genentech Pharmaceuticals Product Development Operations (PGD) Focused Fellowship

OVERVIEW:

We would welcome a Howard Fellow to join PDG and contribute to our purpose through becoming a study manager on a team that is operationalizing a trial and/or get involved in some of the enabling work that we do to innovate our clinical trial work. Work as a study manager could include working with vendors, executional planning (ie demand, budget), partnering with stakeholders in Roche that sit in other functions, working with the people in the countries where the trials are being run, managing risk and compliance, interacting with sites, making operational decisions that lead to the best decisions for patients are a few examples. Work in the enabling space would be focused on innovations that allow us to do what we do better. 

WHO ARE WE: 

Genentech is a biotechnology company dedicated to pursuing groundbreaking science to discover and develop medicines for people with serious and life-threatening diseases. PDG Clinical Operations is a group of people that operationalize phase 1b to phase 4 clinical trials globally. Essentially we take great science that Roche/Genentech discovers and try to move it to an approved medication by partnering cross-functionally to develop and operationalize clinical trials in partnership with physicians who enroll patients at their clinic. We work in over 40 disease areas in the therapeutic areas of oncology, neuroscience, infectious disease, ophthalmology, inflammation and run over 400 trials that we hope will bring benefit to all patients and their loved ones. 

JOB SUMMARY: 

  • 6-months at Howard University: Fellows will learn the foundations of legislation and regulation and administrative law from the Law School; complete teaching certificate with the College of Pharmacy; sit on the Institutional Review Board, and prepare for RAC Certification 
  • 12-months at Genentech Washington, D.C. offices: The Fellow will complete at least 3 rotations while working with the Regulatory Intelligence and other cross-functional teams to gather information on the latest industry trends and health authority policies. Fellows will be exposed to policymakers both internal and external to Genentech and externally on Capitol Hill. 
  • 6-months at FDA: The Fellow will operate as a contractor for either the Division of Medical Policy Program or the Division of Medical Polic Development working on innovative projects within the division. 

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS: 

  • Curriculum Vitae
  • Letter of Intent 
  • Official Transcript 
  • 3 Letter of Recommendation 

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA: 

Graduated with PharmD or Ph.D. 

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