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title: 'Clinical Research Associate (CRA) at BrainChild Bio'
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# Clinical Research Associate (CRA) at BrainChild Bio

- **Company:** BrainChild Bio
- **Location:** United States
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-07-22
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/brainchildbio/1dc33342-6d9c-46bf-a203-3ac395a7bb75

## Job description

BrainChild Bio, Inc. is seeking a motivated and detail driven Clinical Research Associate (CRA) to support the execution and monitoring of our CAR T clinical trials. This role will contribute directly to the quality, integrity, and success of our clinical programs as we advance our autologous cell therapy candidates.

The CRA will be a member of the Clinical Operations team and collaborate closely with our internal Patient Operations team, Contract Research Organization (CRO) partners, vendors, and clinical trial sites to ensure study conduct is compliant with Good Clinical Practice (GCP), applicable regulations, and internal procedures. This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing early-stage biotech where you will have meaningful impact, broad exposure, and the ability to help build scalable clinical processes from the ground up.

Key Responsibilities: Site Management and Monitoring Conduct remote and on-site monitoring visits in accordance with the monitoring plan, including site qualification, site initiation, routine monitoring, and close out activities

## About BrainChild Bio

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: BrainChild Bio is a clinical-stage biotech company developing CAR-T cell therapies for central nervous system (CNS) tumors, with an initial focus on the childhood cancer DIPG.
- **Entity Type**: Private (funding stage not publicly disclosed)
- **Headquarters**: Seattle, WA, USA
- **Founded**: Not publicly available (launched out of Seattle Children’s, built on Dr. Michael Jensen’s research)
- **Founders**: Dr. Michael Jensen (Founder & Chief Scientific Officer)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Biopharmaceuticals / Cell Therapy / Oncology
- **Target customers**: Pediatric and adult cancer patients, clinical partners, regulatory agencies, healthcare providers
- **Mission**: To develop safe and effective therapies for children with brain cancer — “we must get more cures to kids with cancer” ([brainchildbio.com - Careers](https://brainchildbio.com/careers/))

## Products & Services
- **BCB-276**: Clinical candidate for DIPG (diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma), an incurable childhood brainstem cancer; plan is to proceed directly to a single pivotal registrational trial designed to support a Biologics License Application (BLA) after FDA alignment ([brainchildbio.com - Pipeline](https://brainchildbio.com/pipeline/))
- **CNS CAR-T Platform**: Integrates synthetic technologies with three pillars — multiplexed targeting, potency enhancement, and remote control — to optimize CAR-T therapies for CNS tumors ([brainchildbio.com - About](https://brainchildbio.com/about/))
- **Expanding Pipeline**: Future planned expansion to other pediatric and adult brain tumors, including glioblastoma and brain metastases ([brainchildbio.com - Pipeline](https://brainchildbio.com/pipeline/))

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding not publicly available; key milestone is FDA alignment to proceed with a pivotal registrational trial for BCB-276 ([brainchildbio.com - Pipeline](https://brainchildbio.com/pipeline/))
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly available; company is closely tied to Seattle Children’s and the research legacy of Dr. Michael Jensen ([brainchildbio.com - About](https://brainchildbio.com/about/))
- **Growth Signals**: Clinical advancement to pivotal trial, active hiring across process development, regulatory affairs, and supply chain, and an expanding leadership team ([jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/brainchildbio), [brainchildbio.com - Team](https://brainchildbio.com/team/))

## Competitive Advantages
- Built on over a decade of translational research, including FDA-authorized INDs covering four CNS CAR-T cell products ([brainchildbio.com - About](https://brainchildbio.com/about/))
- Deep specialty in CNS tumors — a difficult niche where established CAR-T approaches face unique challenges
- Mission-driven “kids first” positioning, leading to distinct patient-centric drug development priorities
- Proprietary platform combining multiplexed targeting, potency enhancement, and remote control technologies ([brainchildbio.com - About](https://brainchildbio.com/about/))

## Strategic Focus
- Accelerate BCB-276 through a pivotal registrational trial and toward BLA submission ([brainchildbio.com - Pipeline](https://brainchildbio.com/pipeline/))
- Expand the platform to additional CNS tumors in adults and children
- Build a best-in-class team across immunology, synthetic biology, manufacturing sciences, translational medicine, and clinical development ([brainchildbio.com - Team](https://brainchildbio.com/team/))

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Strong mission and values explicitly labeled “Kids First,” “Inventive,” and “Team” ([brainchildbio.com - Careers](https://brainchildbio.com/careers/))
- **Work Environment**: Offers hybrid and remote roles (e.g., remote Process Engineer; hybrid Scientist roles in Seattle) ([jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/brainchildbio))
- **Unique Impact**: Rare opportunity to help advance therapies for pediatric brain cancer “that other biotechnology companies have not done” ([brainchildbio.com - Careers](https://brainchildbio.com/careers/))
- **Hiring Transparency**: AI tools may support aspects of the hiring process, but final decisions are made by humans ([jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/brainchildbio))

## Sources
1. [brainchildbio.com - About Us](https://brainchildbio.com/about/)
2. [brainchildbio.com - Careers](https://brainchildbio.com/careers/)
3. [jobs.lever.co - BrainChild Bio](https://jobs.lever.co/brainchildbio)
4. [brainchildbio.com - Pipeline](https://brainchildbio.com/pipeline/)
5. [brainchildbio.com - Team](https://brainchildbio.com/team/)

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