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Scientific Associate Director, Human Disease Biology, Inflammation Research

BioSpace · South San Francisco, CA · 1 mo ago
ResearchFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role? The posting includes mission description at start. We need headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections if posting has real specific content. We need to parse content. First part: "Join Amgens Mission of Serving Patients At Amgen, if you feel like youre part of something bigger, its because you are. Our shared mission..." This is about the role? It's more about company mission. Could be "About the role" or maybe we treat as "About the role". The instruction: Use

for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we can create sections accordingly. We need to avoid repeating job title as heading. Job title is "Scientific Associate Director, Human Disease Biology, Inflammation Research". Not to be used as heading. We need to include
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    for prose. We need to preserve all substantive information, not invent or summarize away detail. Remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. Also remove "Apply now and make a lasting impact with the Amgen team. careers.amgen.com" etc. Also remove "In any materials you submit..." etc. Also remove "Application deadline..." etc. Also remove "Sponsorship..." etc. Also remove EEO statement. We need to keep substantive content: mission description, role description, responsibilities list, qualifications (basic and preferred), what you can expect (benefits, salary range, total rewards). Also maybe "What We Expect Of You" includes qualifications. "What You Can Expect Of Us" includes benefits and salary. We need to decide sections: About the role (mission and role overview). Responsibilities (list of duties). Requirements (basic qualifications). Qualifications (preferred qualifications). Skills (maybe combine? but we have both basic and preferred; could treat basic as Requirements, preferred as Qualifications). Skills maybe not separate; but we could include Skills if there is explicit skill list. There's "Excellent communication skills and ability to influence scientific strategy across diverse stakeholders." That's a skill. Could be under Skills. Benefits: The posting mentions "competitive benefits", "Total Rewards Plan", "Health And Welfare Plans", "Financial Plans", "Work/life Balance", "Career Development Opportunities", then lists specifics: Retirement and Savings Plan, group medical, dental and vision coverage, life and disability insurance, flexible spending accounts, discretionary annual bonus program, stock-based long-term incentives, award-winning time-off plans, flexible work models. So we can include Benefits section. Pay: The posting says "The expected annual salary range for this role in the U.S. (excluding Puerto Rico) is posted. Actual salary will vary based on several factors including but not limited to, relevant skills, experience, and qualifications." It does not give actual numbers. It says "is posted" but not provided in text. Since we don't have actual numbers, we cannot include Pay section because we would have placeholder like "not specified". The rule: never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g. "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD") and never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. Since the posting does not give actual salary range, we should not include Pay section. However we could include a note that salary range is posted but not given? That would be placeholder. Better to omit Pay. Schedule: No mention of schedule. So omit. Now we need to ensure we don't include boilerplate like EEO etc. Let's extract sections. About the role: Could combine mission description and role overview: "Join Amgens Mission of Serving Patients..." plus description of role: "Scientific Associate Director, Human Disease Biology, Inflammation Research What You Will Do Lets do this. Lets change the world. In this vital role you will work at the intersection of disease biology, multi-omic profiling, computational analysis, and drug discovery, generating insights that advance therapeutic opportunities in respiratory, dermatologic, and/or rheumatologic diseases. The successful candidate will combine deep expertise in human disease biology with experience translating discoveries into therapeutic hypotheses and drug discovery programs. They will serve as a scientific leader who integrates data across human genetics, transcriptomics, proteomics, spatial biology, and single-cell technologies to identify disease mechanisms, patient subsets, biomarkers, and novel therapeutic opportunities." We can put that as prose under About the role. Responsibilities: The list after "Key Responsibilities" includes many sentences separated by periods. We need to turn each into

  • . Let's extract each bullet: - Develop and execute a disease-focused discovery strategy leveraging multi-omic and human data to deepen mechanistic understanding of respiratory, dermatologic, or rheumatologic diseases. - Continuous adoption of technology, AI/computation and innovation to improve efficiency and quality of work. - Integration of systems immunology, multi-omics, AI-enabled biology, and human disease research to bring unique insights and innovative approaches to Amgen's discovery efforts. - Lead cross-functional scientific initiatives that integrate human genetics, single-cell biology, spatial biology, proteomics, and computational analyses to identify and validate first/best-in-class therapeutic targets, patient segments and biomarker strategies. - Drive generation and interpretation of multimodal datasets and translate findings into actionable hypotheses for target discovery and program prioritization/advancement. - Partner closely with computational biology, translational sciences, human genetics, pathology, and disease-area biology teams to build integrated disease models and prioritize therapeutic opportunities. - Serve as a scientific leader for disease-focused discovery efforts and provide expertise in human tissue biology, disease pathogenesis, and emerging technologies. - Design and oversee internal and external collaborations with academic investigators, clinical researchers, consortia, and technology partners. - Contribute to advancement of programs through target validation, indication selection, biomarker identification, and patient stratification strategies. - Mentor scientists and foster rigorous, collaborative, and innovative scientific practices across project teams. - Leads multiple cross-functional projects and scientific initiatives focused on disease understanding and target discovery. - Influences the direction of several discovery programs through generation of disease insights and translational hypotheses. - Serves as a recognized expert in disease biology and multi-omic analysis within the department. - Contributes to departmental strategy related to human biology, disease understanding, and technology deployment. - Builds productive collaborations across research functions and external scientific communities. We need to ensure no duplication. Some sentences start with capital verbs; okay. Now Requirements (basic qualifications): "Doctorate degree PhD OR PharmD OR MD [and relevant post-doc where applicable] and 4 years of relevant scientific experience OR Masters degree and 7 years of relevant scientific experience OR Bachelors degree and 9 years of relevant scientific experience". We'll put as
    • each option? Could be one
    • with the OR statements. Better to split into three options: PhD/PharmD/MD + 4 years; Masters + 7 years; Bachelors + 9 years. We'll list each. Qualifications (preferred qualifications): list: - Significant experience in both academic research and biopharmaceutical drug discovery. - Experience integrating human genetics, transcriptomics, proteomics, single-cell, spatial, imaging, and clinical datasets to generate actionable biological insights that inform target validation, biomarker strategies, patient stratification approaches, and drug discovery programs. - Strong understanding of the drug discovery and development process, including target identification, validation, translational strategy, and preclinical development. - Demonstrated ability to lead matrixed teams and build productive collaborations across scientific disciplines. - Record of scientific achievement as evidenced by high-impact publications, presentations, patents, external collaborations, or contributions to advancing therapeutic programs. - Curiosity-driven scientist with a passion for understanding human disease biology and leveraging emerging technologies to accelerate discovery. - Excellent communication skills and ability to influence scientific strategy across diverse stakeholders. We could also treat "Excellent communication skills..." as Skills section. But we can keep under Qualifications or separate Skills. The instruction: Use headings like Skills. We could create Skills section for that item. However we already have excellent communication skills in preferred qualifications. Might be redundant to duplicate. Better to keep under Qualifications (preferred) and not create separate Skills unless we have other skill items. There's no other explicit skill list besides that. So we could either put Skills section with that item, or not include Skills section if we consider it covered. The rule: Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So maybe we combine communication skill into Qualifications (preferred) and not create Skills section. That reduces sections. Benefits: We need to list benefits as
      • . Let's extract: - Competitive benefits (general) - Total Rewards Plan, based on eligibility, comprising: - Health And Welfare Plans For Staff And Eligible Dependents - Financial Plans With Opportunities To Save Towards Retirement Or Other Goals - Work/life Balance - Career Development Opportunities That May Include A comprehensive employee benefits package, including a Retirement and Savings Plan with generous company contributions, group medical, dental and vision coverage, life and disability insurance, and flexible spending accounts - A discretionary annual bonus program, or for field sales representatives, a sales-based incentive plan - Stock-based long-term incentives - Award-winning time-off plans - Flexible work models where possible. We need to avoid duplication. The text: "In Addition To The Base Salary, Amgen Offers a Total Rewards Plan, Based On Eligibility, Comprising Of Health And Welfare Plans For Staff And Eligible Dependents, Financial Plans With Opportunities To Save Towards Retirement Or Other Goals, Work/life Balance, And Career Development Opportunities That May Include A comprehensive employee benefits package, including a Retirement and Savings Plan with generous company contributions, group medical, dental and vision coverage, life and disability insurance, and flexible spending accountsA discretionary annual bonus program, or for field sales representatives, a sales-based incentive planStock-based long-term incentivesAward-winning time-off plansFlexible work models where possible." It seems some missing spaces. We'll parse. We'll create bullet points: - Health and welfare plans for staff and eligible dependents - Financial plans with opportunities to save towards retirement or other goals - Work/life balance - Career development opportunities - Retirement and savings plan with generous company contributions - Group medical, dental, and vision coverage - Life and disability insurance - Flexible spending accounts - Discretionary annual bonus program (or sales-based incentive plan for field sales representatives) - Stock-based long-term incentives - Award-winning time-off plans - Flexible work models where possible We could also include "competitive benefits" as a general statement but maybe not needed. Now we need to output only HTML fragment, no markdown fences. We'll structure:

        About the role

        ...

        Responsibilities

        • ...
        • ...

        Requirements

        • Doctorate degree (PhD, PharmD, or MD) with relevant post‑doctoral experience where applicable and 4 years of relevant scientific experience
        • Master’s degree and 7 years of relevant scientific experience
        • Bachelor’s degree and 9 years of relevant scientific experience

        Qualifications

        • Significant experience in both academic research and biopharmaceutical drug discovery.
        • Experience integrating human genetics, transcriptomics, proteomics, single‑cell, spatial, imaging, and clinical datasets to generate actionable biological insights that inform target validation, biomarker strategies, patient stratification approaches, and drug discovery programs.
        • Strong understanding of the drug discovery and development process, including target identification, validation, translational strategy, and preclinical development.
        • Demonstrated ability to lead matrixed teams and build productive collaborations across scientific disciplines.
        • Record of scientific achievement as evidenced by high‑impact publications, presentations, patents, external collaborations, or contributions

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