Senior Specialist, Quantitative Pharmacology and Pharmacometrics - Cardiometabolic and Ophthalm

Job Description

The Quantitative Pharmacology and Pharmacometrics (QP2) Department of our Company’s Research Laboratories in West Point, PA / Rahway, NJ is seeking a curious and collaborative Senior Scientist to support our rapidly expanding cardiometabolic and ophthalmology pipelines.

• Contribute to the development of model-based strategies (translational PK/PD strategies, mechanistic model, POPPK/PD, clinical trial simulations, etc) for quantitative analyses, within and across development programs and/or departments, to inform and optimize drug discovery and all phases of drug development including, but not limited to dose selection, clinical trial design, and go/no-go decisions.
• Represent QP2 on cardiometabolic and ophthalmology discovery, early clinical development and late clinical development teams, leveraging quantitative approaches to drive streamlined development of programs within our growing portfolio.
• Collaborate with other functional areas, as well as with external vendors and partners, on activities related to study design, protocol development, study execution, reporting and interpretation of data.

• A Ph.D. or equivalent degree OR a PharmD or equivalent degree with at least 2 years of experience OR an MS or equivalent degree with at least 4 years of experience, where “experience” means having a record of increasing responsibility and independence in a similar role in pharmaceutical drug development, regulatory agency, or academia.
• Educational background in biopharmaceutics, pharmaceutical sciences, pharmacometrics, chemical/biomedical engineering, or a related field.
• Experience in performing population PK, PK/PD analyses using standard pharmacometrics software (e.g. NONMEM, Monolix, Phoenix, etc.).
• Good written and verbal communication, interdisciplinary collaboration, and problem scoping and planning.

• Knowledge in cardiometabolic and/or ophthalmology clinical drug development programs
• Skills in experimental design, mathematical problem solving, critical data analysis/interpretation, and statistics.
• Scientific understanding of biopharmaceutical and ADME properties of small molecules and/or biologics

Clinical Study Design, Clinical Trial Designs, Clinical Trials, Database Design, Data Engineering, Data Modeling, Data Science, Data Visualization, Interdisciplinary Collaboration, Machine Learning (ML), Pharmacodynamics, Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacotherapeutics, Waterfall Model

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