Patient Access

• Develop, implement, and maintain stage-appropriate patient access and market access planning requirements for CIRM-funded preclinical and clinical programs
• Serve as a primary point of contact and subject matter resource for CIRM applicants and awardees
• Identify, recruit, and onboard experts to review patient access planning components and advise on progress across awards
• Guide prospective applicants and current awardees on planning requirements, application expectations, and budget justification
• Curate resources, consultants, service providers, and best practices for awardees
• Monitor and track patient access, market access, and commercialization planning activities across the preclinical and clinical portfolio
• Review and adjudicate patient access planning milestone reports and support approval of operational milestones and funding disbursements
• Collaborate on use of CIRM’s clinical infrastructure to enable patient access to funded therapies
• Track and support pre-commercialization and post-approval patient access activities
• Analyze portfolio trends in patient access, market access, and commercialization strategies
• Track post-approval real-world patient access and benchmark against the industry landscape
• Report findings to the Access & Affordability Working Group to inform strategy
• Identify gaps and resources needed to support patient access
• Evaluate and advance innovative financial and reimbursement models promoting affordability and sustainability
• Engage payers, providers, patient advocates, health economists, and therapy developers
• Monitor payer coverage, reimbursement policy, and healthcare delivery trends
• Represent CIRM in scientific, industry, regulatory, and policy forums
• Report to the Associate Vice President, Patient Engagement; no supervisory responsibilities

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