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Home›Jobs›Tempus›Medical Director of Oncology Assay Development
Tempus

About Tempus

Transforming healthcare with data-driven insights

🏢 Tech👥 1K-5K📅 Founded 2015📍 Chicago, Illinois, United States

Key Highlights

  • Largest library of clinical and molecular data in the world
  • Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois
  • Over $1 billion raised from top-tier investors
  • 1,000+ employees dedicated to healthcare technology

Tempus, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, is a technology company that has developed the largest library of clinical and molecular data, focusing on oncology. With over 1,000 employees, Tempus partners with leading healthcare institutions to provide data-driven insights and personalized treatment ...

🎁 Benefits

Tempus offers competitive salaries, equity options, generous PTO, flexible remote work policies, and comprehensive health benefits, including parental...

🌟 Culture

Tempus fosters a culture of innovation and collaboration, emphasizing data-driven decision-making and a commitment to improving patient outcomes throu...

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Tempus

Medical Director of Oncology Assay Development

Tempus • Chicago, IL

Posted 9 months ago🏛️ On-SiteSeniorMedical director📍 Chicago
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Job Description

Passionate about precision medicine and advancing the healthcare industry?

With the advent of genomic sequencing, we can finally decode and process our genetic makeup. We now have more data than ever before, but providers don't have the infrastructure or expertise to make sense of this data. Here at Tempus, we believe that the treatment of cancer lies in the deep understanding of molecular activity for disease initiation, progression, and efficacious treatment based on the detection of unique biomarkers. Tempus' proprietary platform connects an entire ecosystem of real-world evidence to deliver real-time, actionable insights to physicians, providing critical information about the right treatments for the right patients, at the right time.

What you’ll do

  • Provide medical guidance on new assay development, new feature development, and continuous assay improvement
  • Represent medical oncology stakeholder for assay development and improvement decisions
  • Provide strategic input for assay development and improvement and troubleshoot with assay development staff
  • Assist with regulatory and quality guidance for experimental and validation study design
  • Closely interact with clinical laboratory directors to direct assay transfer plans
  • Interact with vice president of clinical pathology, chief science officer, and other stakeholders
  • Participate in quarterly roadmap planning for R&D resources as it pertains to assay development and improvement
  • Minimal or no participation in routine NGS clinical signout with expectations of maintaining medical license and accreditation 

Preferred Qualifications

  • MD or DO with current medical license (IL licensure preferred, required for signout)
    • Board certified/eligible in Molecular Genetic Pathology (preferred)
    • American Board of Pathology Certification in Anatomic and/or Clinical Pathology
  • Extensive experience with next generation sequencing (NGS) assay development and continuous improvements
  • Knowledge and/or experience in oncology, cancer immunotherapy, medical immunology, or clinical research
  • Experience working in and building assays for a regulated clinical laboratory environment (CLIA/CAP/NYSDOH/QSR)
  • Excellent organizational and communication skills
  • Dynamic self-starter that works well with others in a fast paced environment

 

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We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

 

Additionally, for remote roles open to individuals in unincorporated Los Angeles – including remote roles- Tempus reasonably believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment: engaging positively with customers and other employees; accessing confidential information, including intellectual property, trade secrets, and protected health information; and appropriately handling such information in accordance with legal and ethical standards. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

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