Scientific Director, Immunology, Global Patient Safety
Posted Sep 23, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026
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About your past
Tell me about a time you synthesized safety data for a DSUR, PSUR or RMP. What was hardest?
What they are checking: Whether they have hands-on experience writing accurate, clear safety documents for regulators.
Describe a process improvement you led in a safety team. How did you manage the change?
What they are checking: Whether they can improve how a team works and bring colleagues along.
How do you share learnings across different immunology assets so teams do not repeat mistakes?
What they are checking: Whether they build connections across asset teams, as the posting asks.
How do you present complex safety findings to an audience that is not made up of safety experts?
What they are checking: Whether they can make safety data clear and accurate for decision makers.
What would you do
Clinical Development wants to loosen exclusion criteria to speed enrollment, but you see a safety concern. How do you handle it?
What they are checking: Whether they can protect study participants while working constructively with development teams.
A regulator asks a pointed safety question with a short response deadline. How do you organize the response?
What they are checking: Whether they can coordinate statistics, clinical and regulatory quickly while keeping scientific rigor.
About the work
Walk me through how you would build a safety strategy for an immunology asset entering phase 3.
What they are checking: Whether they can plan safety work across the lifecycle with clear risks of interest and monitoring plans.
What safety signals would you watch most closely for a JAK inhibitor or IL-23 antibody, and why?
What they are checking: Whether they have real immunology safety knowledge, such as infections, malignancy and cardiovascular events.
How do you decide whether a cluster of adverse events is a real signal or chance?
What they are checking: Whether they use background rates, causality assessment and statistical judgment rather than instinct.
How would you prepare competitive intelligence on the safety profiles of other drugs in psoriasis or inflammatory bowel disease?
What they are checking: Whether they can place their asset's safety in context using the literature and standard of care.
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