Clinical Research Associate

Who We Are: MapLight Therapeutics is a clinical stage biotech company that focuses on drug discovery for central nervous system disorders. We combine cutting-edge technologies including optogenetics, in vivo physiology, and spatial transcriptomics to identify novel drug targets and develop effective therapies to address psychiatric symptoms.

Location: This is a remote role located in the Florida region. Only considering applicants who live within the region.

Travel: Position will require up to 75% travel with potential to be higher at times of peak activity. Every effort will be made to keep travel regional but travel outside of a region may be required on occasion. Additional periodic travel for meetings is also expected.

What You’ll Do: The Sr. CRA will perform quality and compliant Investigator site monitoring and relationship-driven Investigator site management in line with MapLight’s SOPs, our Mission, Vision, and Values, as well as industry quality and regulatory best practices (ICH GCP). The CRA will perform on-site monitoring and centralized monitoring to ensure subject safety, the highest data integrity, and contribute to proactive risk management and inspection readiness. 

This role will collaborate closely with key cross-functional internal stakeholders including Clinical Operations, Medical Monitoring, Data Management, Supply Chain, and Clinical Compliance and Quality as well as external CRO and vendor partners to ensure quality study oversight from study start up through close out.

CNS and/or neuropsychiatry, specifically in-patient schizophrenia and/or Alzheimer’s disease psychosis or Alzheimer's disease agitation experience strongly preferred. 

Responsibilities**:**

• Effectively manage assigned Investigator sites and maintain positive relationships with site personnel.
• Prepare for and conduct Pre-Study, Initiation, Interim and Closeout monitoring visits in accordance with MapLight SOPs and procedures, regulatory requirements and industry guidelines and best practices (ICH GCP).
• Support the study team in meeting study milestones (site activation, DSMB meetings, database lock, etc.).
• Perform centralized monitoring activities between on-site visits to ensure timely resolution of action items, oversight of study data quality and flow, and proactively identify and mitigate/manage study risks and issues.
• Maintain quality and compliant documentation related to all aspects of site management including quality and ALCOA+ compliant monitoring visit reports, centralized monitoring reports, site contact reports, Trial Master File/Investigator Site File, etc.
• Serve as the main MapLight point of contact for Investigator sites to support protocol compliance, streamlined communications, timely responses to site staff needs, and training needs.