Project Director - IAMI Drug Development

Project Director - IAMI Drug Development

Department: SOM KC Cancer Biology
Institute for Advancing Medical Innovation

Job Description Summary

The Drug Development Project Director position is responsible for developing and implementing Drug Discovery and Early Drug Development project plans. This position reports directly to the Director, Institute for Advancing Medical Innovation (IAMI)

Key Roles and Responsibilities

• This position will assemble Drug Discovery and Early Development project teams comprised of researchers from KU, Children's Mercy Hospital, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, and collaborators outside the University of Kansas to implement project plans from target identification and validation through clinical proof of concept, maintaining a cohesive and highly effective project team during all phases of the drug project.
• This position will serve as the primary point of contact for the team and will ensure that open lines of communication are established and maintained throughout the project lifecycle.
• The Drug Development Project Director will play a leadership role in implementing the strategic plan for KU Drug Discovery integrating functions such as Medicinal Chemistry, Combinatorial Chemistry, High Throughput Screening, Imaging, the Product Development Core, and Animal Resources.
• This position will work directly with the Technology Transfer offices on both Lawrence and Kansas City campuses in support of intellectual property and commercialization activities.
• Understand project goals and manage project strategy to achieve those goals
• Lead the performance of the project tasks per the agreed upon scope of work
• Act as a focal point for all internal and external project communication
• Schedule, monitor and communicate the status of the project tasks to the project team
• Generate and distribute concise meeting minutes, action items and status reports
• Prepare the overall project and communication plan with the assistance of the project team
• Monitor the compliance to the project plan and update the plan as needed
• Ensure the project team members are focused on a common set of objectives
• Ensure that the project objectives and deliverables have been met on time. The drug development project director will work with either the Drug Discovery, Delivery, and Experimental Therapeutic (D3ET) or Investigator Initiated Trials (IIT) steering committees to advance new cancer therapeutic strategies.
• The drug development project director will work with the Cancer Center Lead Development and Optimization shared resource (LDO SR) Director and team members to organize, manage and advance cancer researcher's early drug discovery projects in using High Throughput Screening (HTS), Medicinal Chemistry (MDCM), and Biotechnology Innovation and Optimization Center (BIOC) services.