Director, Cancer Center Biobank

City of Hope in the Los Angeles metro area, one of the top five cancer hospitals in the country according to US News and World Report, is seeking a dynamic leader to develop and oversee a best-in-class biorepository and help to usher in a new era of collaborative research. This enterprise-wide initiative will leverage cutting-edge technology to integrate and strengthen biospecimen banking and data generation across the ever-growing City of Hope network encompassing multiple clinical sites across California, Phoenix, Chicago, and Atlanta. The biorepository is intended to be an institutional shared resource that accelerates basic, clinical, and translational research by providing dedicated staff for consenting, procurement, processing, storage, and shipment of research specimens and robust informatics solutions to centralize clinical annotations and results data critical to research in cancer, diabetes, and other diseases. This initiative will bring an invaluable new dimension to our research enterprise, enabling longitudinal research and unprecedented transparency for researchers to streamline and enhance data analysis.

The successful candidate:

• Serves as a leader, innovator, coordinator, and change agent in the pursuit of strengthening biobanking operations.
• Oversees the development of the system-wide biorepository, including planning, organizing, staffing, influencing, and controlling process for research participant recruitment, consenting, specimen procurement and accessioning, and clinical annotation.
• Partners with onsite teams of Lab Managers and Technicians, Biospecimen Coordinators, Data Managers and Project Managers to create, design, and implement systems, processes and policies while maintaining the mission, vision, and values of City of Hope.
• Ensures compliance with all relevant policies, procedures, guidelines, and all other regulatory and accreditation standards.

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City of Hope is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and is an equal opportunity employer.