Pathology Scientist (m/f/d)

Pathology Scientist (m/f/d)

Responsibilities

• Provide medical oversight for pathology and slide reading for early phase clinical trials, assay development, CE-IVD, and Pharma clients. Ensure quality and continuous improvement initiatives via collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.
• Support R&D activities for primary antibodies, detection systems, probes, special stains, and digital pathology, contributing to new product development and process improvements.
• Serve as the medical representative on project teams, addressing all pathology-related aspects and queries, and making strategic contributions through medical knowledge.
• Participate in Pharma client meetings to support biomarker hypothesis testing strategies and drive activities for publication and/or patent potential.
• Coordinate the work of contracted pathologists, including training, assigning work and advising on day-to-day activities.
• Contribute to internal pathology education programs, perform training and scoring of slides, read clinical trial patient samples for the CDx laboratory (Penzberg), and stay up-to-date on pathology, oncology, and molecular biology literature.
• Serve as Principal Investigator with medical accountability across multiple European clinical trials within global CDx development programs, acting as the primary medical interface to Pharma partners.
• Provide medical oversight of laboratory processes, procedures, and quality management systems. Ensure compliance with local regulatory requirements as well as global Roche and international standards and supporting continuous improvement initiatives.

Qualifications

• German board certification, a valid German medical license, and at least one year of clinical or industry experience.
• Proven expertise in immunohistochemistry.
• Experience in interpretation and assessment of primary antibodies, detection systems, probes, and molecular platforms.
• Proficiency in providing pathology support to project teams and clinical trials.
• Skilled in leading people, communicating effectively, and working within multidisciplinary teams.