Matt Renda

About Matt Renda

Clinical development professional with scientific acumen honed at top-tier academic laboratories providing Medical Writing (MW) leadership and program management to optimize cross-functional processes, implement new technologies, and efficiently develop clinical documents. Previous work experience includes: • Supporting a variety of successful health authority submissions including 3 INDs, 2 NDAs, and 3 BLAs.• Serving on Syntimmune and Portola acquisition integration teams to ensure business continuity.• Overseeing multiple MW vendor relationships with multimillion-dollar budgets to meet MW needs.• Founding a MW Operations group to align with 5-fold MW department growth.• Optimizing MW contributions in the drug development process through cross-department collaborations.• Leading the 1200+ member Yale Biotechnology & Pharmaceutical Society and co-leading the Alexion Innovation Advisory Council.• Directing cross-functional innovation projects exploring the use of automation to help create MW documents and innovation workshops to solve R&D challenges.• Conducting patented research in prominent labs leading to 10 manuscripts and 14 congress abstracts.• Evaluating in-license opportunities and co-authoring out-license marketing briefs, development plans/budgets, patent applications and publication plans.• Recipient of 3 Alexion Living the Values Awards and 30 Badges recognizing a variety of efforts.

Experience

1. Senior Director, Medical Writing Operations

   Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

   Nov 2023 — Present · New Haven, CT, US

   Senior Director, Medical Writing Operations reporting to Executive Director Medical Writing• Directs Medical Writing Operations team to ensure department leverages the latest advances in technology, improvements to process, and outsourcing offerings.• Oversees and tracks all medical writing projects, including confirmation of up-to-date document attributes and timing, budgets, and resourcing• Builds and maintains effective vendor relationships to ensure outsourced authoring, QC, formatting, and publishing projects exceed Alexion needs. • Establishes cross-functional and cross-vendor relationships to synergize best-in-class technologies with Alexion writing tools, content repositories and processes to accelerate development of clinical documents.

Education

• University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry

  Ph.D., Biochemistry

  1999 — 2003

• University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry

  M.S., Microbiology & Immunology

  1996 — 1999

• Kent School

  Preparatory School

  1989 — 1992

• Franklin & Marshall College

  B.S., Biology (Major) and Astrophysics (Minor)

  1992 — 1996

Skills

• Cell
• Brand Development
• Drug Discovery
• Clinical Trials
• Genomics
• Purification
• Immunology
• Assay Development
• Biochemistry
• Vendor Management
• Infectious Diseases
• Publications Management
• Intellectual Property
• Grant Writing
• Protein Chemistry
• New Business Development
• Clinical Pharmacology
• Medical Research
• New Drug Application
• Market Research
• Gene Therapy
• Pharmaceuticals
• Pharmaceutical Industry
• Fda
• Molecular Biology
• Patents
• Hematology
• Neurology
• Manuscripts
• Medical Diagnostics
• Personalized Medicine
• Clinical Development
• Program Management
• Oncology
• Public Speaking
• Cell Biology
• Translational Medicine
• Translational Research
• Stem Cells
• Laboratory