Genentech is a pioneering biotechnology company based in South San Francisco, California. Founded in 1976, it is considered one of the originators of the biotech industry. Genentech focuses on discovering, developing, manufacturing, and commercializing medicines for serious or life-threatening medical conditions. Key facts about Genentech: -Therapeutic Areas: It has developed therapies in oncology, immunology, neuroscience, ophthalmology, and infectious disease. -Innovation: Genentech was the first company to successfully produce human insulin using recombinant DNA technology. -Ownership: It became a wholly owned subsidiary of the Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche in 2009, but it continues to operate as an independent center for R&D within the Roche Group. -Flagship Products: Includes blockbuster biologics like Avastin (cancer), Herceptin (breast cancer), Lucentis (eye disease), and Rituxan (lymphoma and autoimmune diseases).
Delivery Pipeline Strategy and Surgeon Engagement - Medical Device Development
My primary responsibility is therapeutic delivery device strategy and portfolio management. Within that role, I am responsible for overseeing all surgeon (users) engagement to coordinate their involvement in the device development process. My role is directly aligned with our device engineering innovation center, functioning as the commercial planning/commercial operations lead. Responsibilities include: • Managing our targeted therapeutic delivery device portfolio and identifying opportunities to expand our offering of surgical devices designed to deliver therapeutics to very specific locations in the body. • Developing business cases for vetted opportunities, creating Target Product Profiles, and proposing those opportunities to various leadership groups for project initiation and funding. • Working directly with the device development engineering team throughout the development process to ensure that the device is satisfying all user requirements. • Working with surgeons and medical societies to maintain a high level of engagement and relationship development to enable our team to have open access to a large group of key stakeholders. • Leading collaboration efforts with early stage therapeutic development teams within Roche/Genentech.
The team will travel to our Innovation Center in King of Prussia, PA and spend the day interacting with a seasoned team of medical device engineers. Participants will have the opportunity to have hands-on experience with much of the technical equipment used by the engineering team as they develop and test surgical prototypes. Participants will also have the opportunity to use these devices in a simulated surgical environment. The externship will provide participants with a 'behind the scenes' perspective on what it is like to work for the medical device engineering branch of a large pharmaceutical company.
