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 lev erag e 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 a n 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.
• Oversee s the development of the system-wide b iorepository, including planning, organizing, staffing, influencing, and controlling process for research participant recruitment, consenting, specimen procurement and accessioning, and clinical annotation .
• Partner s with onsite team s of L ab M anager s and T echnician s , Biospecimen Coordinators, Data Managers and Project Manager s to create, desig n , and implemen t systems, processes and policies while maintaining the mission, vision, and values of City of Hope .
• Ensure s compliance with all relevant policies, procedures, guidelines, and all other regulatory and accreditation standards .

Your qualifications :

• Doctorate degree in a scientific discipline with 3-5 years of experience supporting biobanking in the cancer/diabetes setting .
• Proven, r obust experience in supporting team science grants (SPORE, P01) for tissue cores .
• Experience with regulatory compliance, biorepository operations and lab accreditations (CLIA, CAP) .
• Strong leadership experience and ability to build and interface with multidisciplinary and cro ss -departmental teams .
• Experience with research informatics and laboratory information management system development for samples/clinical annotation .

About Us

Join the transformative team at City of Hope , where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope's growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago, and Phoenix. Our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.

To learn more about our world-renowned, r esearch c enters , institutes, and l abs and to see current research news: City of Hope Research & Innovation.

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