Senior Scientific Director, Neurodegenerative Diseases

Location: New York

Senior Scientific Director, Neurodegenerative Diseases Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences, diagnostics and biotechnology?

Within Danaher the work our diagnostic businesses do saves lives—and we’re all united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact.

You’ll thrive in a culture of belonging where you and your unique viewpoint matter. And by harnessing Danaher’s system of continuous improvement, you help turn ideas into impact – innovating at the speed of life.

We’re accelerating the development of cutting-edge diagnostics to solve some of the world’s most pressing health challenges. Across our diagnostics operating companies we are driving innovation through partnerships with top academic institutions and leading players in biopharma and translational research. We’re bringing the best minds together to accelerate innovation and unlock the full potential of the latest scientific advances. Together, we’re expanding access to precision diagnostics for millions of people worldwide - and we’re using our unmatched global scale and proven playbook to make it happen, from hospital labs to mobile clinics.

By helping providers, patients, and families get faster, more precise diagnostic results, we’re improving treatment options and saving lives.

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The Senior Scientific Director, Neurodegenerative Diseases is a senior scientific leader for Danaher Diagnostics’ neurodegenerative disease franchise, working with our team to shape the scientific and clinical agenda that establishes Danaher Diagnostics as a leader in neurodegeneration. Contributing directly to franchise strategy, portfolio direction and partnership decisions, the role independently leads a portfolio of scientific programs from concept through readout and contributes scientific and clinical expertise across many others.

This is a role for a physician-scientist or senior clinical researcher who wants the breadth of an entire diagnostics portfolio rather than a single asset.

This position reports to the Chief Scientific Officer, Neurodegenerative Diseases, and sits within the Chief Innovation Office supporting the neurodegenerative disease and oncology franchises. The role is global and can be based flexibly or remotely. It leads through scientific authority and cross-functional influence rather than direct people management, with access to the scientific, clinical and technical resources of Danaher’s diagnostics operating  this role, you will have the opportunity to:

Shape scientific strategy for the neurodegenerative disease franchise, translating it into integrated evidence plans that guide portfolio, technology roadmap, and product development decisions.

Lead flagship research programs end‑to‑end—including academic partnerships and a multimodal patient registry—owning scientific design, execution, milestones, and readouts.

Drive external scientific insight by designing and chairing advisory boards and leadership forums to inform internal strategy and decision‑making.

Build and represent expert networks across academia, consortia, and societies while partnering with diagnostics, biopharma, and academic collaborators on research, validation studies, and publications.

Evaluate external innovation and partnership opportunities in neurodegeneration, shaping investment recommendations with the CSO and embedding DBS standard work, metrics, and AI‑enabled practices across the scientific agenda.

The essential requirements of the job include:

MD, MD/PhD or PhD in medicine, neuroscience or a related discipline, with extensive post-qualification experience in diagnostics, biopharma, biotechnology or academic…