City of Hope is an independent biomedical research and treatment center for cancer, diabetes and other life-threatening diseases.

Founded in 1913, City of Hope is a leader in bone marrow transplantation and immunotherapy such as CAR T cell therapy. City of Hope’s translational research and personalized treatment protocols advance care throughout the world. Human synthetic insulin, monoclonal antibodies and numerous breakthrough cancer drugs are based on technology developed at the institution. AccessHope™, a wholly owned subsidiary, was launched in 2019 and is dedicated to serving employers and their health care partners by providing access to City of Hope’s exceptional cancer expertise.

A National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center and a founding member of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, City of Hope is ranked among the nation’s “Best Hospitals” in cancer by U.S. News & World Report and received Magnet Recognition from the American Nurses Credentialing Center. Its main campus is located near Los Angeles, with additional locations throughout Southern California and in Arizona.

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.

Your qualifications:

Doctorate degree in a scientific discipline with 3-5 years of experience supporting biobanking in the cancer/diabetes setting.
Proven, robust 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 cross-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.

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