Senior Scientific Director, Neurodegenerative Diseases

Senior Scientific Director, Neurodegenerative Diseases

Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences, diagnostics and biotechnology?

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We’re accelerating the development of cutting-edge diagnostics to solve some of the world’s most pressing health challenges. Across our diagnostics operating companies we are driving innovation through partnerships with top academic institutions and leading players in biopharma and translational research. We’re bringing the best minds together to accelerate innovation and unlock the full potential of the latest scientific advances. Together, we’re expanding access to precision diagnostics for millions of people worldwide - and we’re using our unmatched global scale and proven playbook to make it happen, from hospital labs to mobile clinics. By helping providers, patients, and families get faster, more precise diagnostic results, we’re improving treatment options and saving lives.

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The Senior Scientific Director, Neurodegenerative Diseases is a senior scientific leader for Danaher Diagnostics’ neurodegenerative disease franchise, working with our team to shape the scientific and clinical agenda that establishes Danaher Diagnostics as a leader in neurodegeneration. Contributing directly to franchise strategy, portfolio direction and partnership decisions, the role independently leads a portfolio of scientific programs from concept through readout and contributes scientific and clinical expertise across many others. This is a role for a physician-scientist or senior clinical researcher who wants the breadth of an entire diagnostics portfolio rather than a single asset.

This position reports to the Chief Scientific Officer, Neurodegenerative Diseases, and sits within the Chief Innovation Office supporting the neurodegenerative disease and oncology franchises. The role is global and can be based flexibly or remotely. It leads through scientific authority and cross-functional influence rather than direct people management, with access to the scientific, clinical and technical resources of Danaher’s diagnostics operating companies.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Shape scientific strategy for the neurodegenerative disease franchise, translating it into integrated evidence plans that guide portfolio, technology roadmap, and product development decisions.
• Lead flagship research programs end‑to‑end—including academic partnerships and a multimodal patient registry—owning scientific design, execution, milestones, and readouts.
• Drive external scientific insight by designing and chairing advisory boards and leadership forums to inform internal strategy and decision‑making.
• Build and represent expert networks across academia, consortia, and societies while partnering with diagnostics, biopharma, and academic collaborators on research, validation studies, and publications.
• Evaluate external innovation and partnership opportunities in neurodegeneration, shaping investment recommendations with the CSO and embedding DBS standard work, metrics, and AI‑enabled practices across the scientific agenda.

The essential requirements of the job include:

• MD, MD/PhD or PhD in medicine, neuroscience or a related discipline, with extensive post-qualification experience in diagnostics, biopharma, biotechnology or academic medicine, including significant time in senior scientific, clinical or translational leadership roles engaging external expert networks and scientific advisory boards at global scale. A medical degree with clinical experience in neurology, psychiatry, geriatrics or a related specialty is strongly preferred.
• Deep expertise in biomarker development for neurologic disease, spanning discovery through clinical deployment, with working command of assay performance characteristics, pre-analytical variables and the distinction between analytical validation, clinical validation and clinical utility.
• Demonstrated experience leading clinical strategy and evidence generation programs in neurodegenerative disease or an adjacent specialty area, with personal accountability for study design, execution against committed timelines, readout and publication.
• Working knowledge of in vitro diagnostic product development, regulatory pathways such as United States Food and Drug Administration clearance and the European Union In Vitro Diagnostic Regulation, and the evidence requirements supporting diagnostic claims.
• Scientific writing and communication strength sufficient to author and critically review protocols, study reports and peer-reviewed manuscripts, and to condense the same body of work into executive decision materials.

Travel, Motor Vehicle Record & Physical/Environment Requirements:

• Ability to travel approximately 30%, domestic and international, including overnight travel to congresses, advisory boards and partner sites.

It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in:

• Clinical care provision for patients with neurologic and neurodegenerative disorders
• Biospecimen or clinical data repository creation and oversight, multimodal data platform programs, and generation of real-world evidence.
• Biopharma companion diagnostic collaborations or master research agreements in neurology.
• Danaher Business System (DBS) or an equivalent operational excellence framework.
• Recognized standing in the neurodegeneration field, such as society leadership, consortium participation, guideline authorship or invited congress presentations.

Within Danaher Diagnostics, we offer a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether it’s a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job.

Within Danaher Diagnostics we believe in designing a better, more sustainable workforce. We recognize the benefits of flexible, remote working arrangements for eligible roles and are committed to providing enriching careers, no matter the work arrangement. This position is eligible for a remote work arrangement in which you can work remotely from your home. Additional information about this remote work arrangement will be provided by your interview team. Explore the flexibility and challenge that working within Danaher Diagnostics can provide.

The annual salary range OR the hourly range for this role is $265K-$300K. This is the range that we in good faith believe is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. This range may be modified in the future.

This job is also eligible for bonus/incentive pay.

We offer comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

Join our winning team today. Together, we’ll accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow’s science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.

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