About Altimmune:
Altimmune (NASDAQ: ALT) is a late clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing therapies for patients with serious liver diseases. The Companyโs lead candidate, pemvidutide, is a unique dualโaction therapy targeting both glucagon and GLPโ1 receptors in a balanced 1:1 ratio in development for the treatment of metabolic dysfunctionโassociated steatohepatitis (MASH), alcohol use disorder (AUD), and alcoholโassociated liver disease (ALD). For more information, please visit www.altimmune.com.
Job Position: This is a highโvisibility, highโimpact role that will be critical to Altimmuneโs growth. Reporting to the Senior Director, Biostatistics, this individual will provide statistical leadership and serve as the lead statistician for one or more clinical development programs within Altimmuneโs pipeline. The role involves collaborating with clinical and development teams, including clinicians, clinical scientists, statistical programmers, data managers, regulatory, and clinical operations professionals, to plan, conduct, and analyze clinical studies of all phases. Responsibilities include ensuring the overall quality of statistical design, programming, analysis, and data reporting, representing the company in interactions with external statistical and data management service providers, and participating in discussions with regulatory agencies.
Workplace Designation: Depending upon location, this role will be hybrid or remote and will require some travel as business needs dictate.
Essential Functions Statistical Leadership
- Serve as the lead statistician for one or more clinical development programs, providing statistical and operational leadership across all phases of clinical research.
- Provide statistical input into development strategy, study design, sample size determination, endpoint selection, estimands, and analysis methodology.
- Perform or oversee statistical analyses for interim study results, database locks, topโline results, and final clinical study reports.
- Evaluate and implement innovative statistical methodologies, technologies, and AIโenabled tools to improve efficiency and quality across clinical development.
Regulatory and Documentation
- Develop and review statistical sections of clinical protocols, Statistical Analysis Plans (SAPs), Case Report Forms (CRFs), Clinical Study Reports (CSRs), and other regulatory documents.
- Ensure all statistical activities comply with ICHโGCP guidelines, CDISC standards, regulatory guidance, and company standards.
- Contribute to the interpretation of clinical trial results and support the preparation of regulatory submissions, publications, scientific presentations, and responses to health authorities.
- Represent Altimmune in interactions with external statistical vendors, CROs, and regulatory agencies.
CrossโFunctional Collaboration
- Collaborate closely with Clinical Development, Clinical Operations, Data Management, Statistical Programming, Medical Affairs, and Regulatory Affairs to ensure highโquality study design and execution.
- Work closely with statistical programmers to ensure timely development of analysis datasets, tables, listings, and figures (TLFs) supporting clinical development and regulatory submissions.
- Review and validate statistical programming deliverables, programmatically or through independent review, as appropriate.
- Oversee statistical activities performed by CROs and external vendors, ensuring quality, timeliness, and compliance with regulatory requirements.
Team Development and Process Excellence
- Foster a culture of scientific rigor, collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning within the Biometrics organization.
- Contribute to departmental process improvements, standards development, and crossโfunctional initiatives that strengthen Altimmuneโs clinical development capabilities.
Job Requirements (Essential knowledge, skills, and attributes)
- PhD in Statistics, Biostatistics, or related field with 7+ years of clinical trial statistics experience in biotech/pharma; or MS with 10+ years of equivalent industry experience.
- Strong knowledge of statistical methods relevant to clinical trials, including longitudinal data, survival analysis, and Bayesian approaches.
- Experience with regulatory interactions and submissions, including familiarity with FDA and/or EMA expectations for statistical evidence.
- Proficiency in SAS and/or R; extensive experience with CDISC standards (SDTM, ADaM).
- Excellent communication and leadership skills with the ability to translate complex statistical concepts for nonโstatistical audiences, including clinicians, regulators, and senior leadership.
- A selfโdirected individual who can excel both independently and as a team player in a fastโpaced, entrepreneurial environment.
- History of successful participation within an interdisciplinary
Preferred Experience
- Experience serving as the lead statistician for Phase 3 clinical trials and supporting NDA and/or BLA regulatory submissions is highly desirable.
- Prior experience in metabolic diseases, liver disease, or related indications (e.g., NASH/MASH, obesity) is highly desirable.
- Experience with external control arms or synthetic cohort matching.
- Familiarity with nonโinvasive biomarkers and imaging endpoints.
Altimmune provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.