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Position: Sr. Associate – Pharmacometrics
Job Summary: As a Sr. Associate in Pharmacometrics, your primary responsibility will be to collaborate with the Pharmacometrics (MBMA group) and clinical pharmacology therapeutic area leads to create and maintain up-to-date clinical literature databases. You will also provide data summaries and visualizations for clinical team reviews. Additionally, you will review data-request forms, conduct literature searches, and extract data from scientific literature, conference abstracts, and clinical databases to generate curated data files (CDF) and develop a knowledge base for specific disease/therapeutic areas.
You will be responsible for documenting and reporting the effectiveness of quality control checks and remediation activities. This includes developing, maintaining, and reporting quality control metrics to demonstrate data curation and dataset construction quality improvement and maintenance goals. You will also support the creation and derivation of analysis-ready datasets, conduct exploratory data analysis, and visualize literature and internal data to provide actionable insights to clinical teams, influencing clinical trial design and decision-making. Additionally, you may contribute to other pharmacometrics modeling activities such as population modeling, exposure-response modeling, model-based meta-analysis (MBMA), and quantitative methodology.
Job Responsibilities:
- Interface with partner lines (e.g., clinical assay group, statistics, pharmacometrics) to ensure appropriate support for assigned programs and studies
- Curate data from public literature and Pfizer internal sources based on the Pfizer Model Based Meta-Analysis (MBMA) Data Definition for assembly of CDFs
- Perform quality control checks on curated data prior to final CDF delivery
- Identify and implement quality measures and systems
- Create mock/draft/sample CDFs and summary documentation in tabular and graphical formats for review and comment by disease area team
- Develop and generate Endpoint and Endpoint Subscale dictionaries, maintaining the dictionaries in the approved MBMA repository
- Stay updated with literature, government guidelines, internal guidance, and internal SOPs and regulations related to modeling analysis to be a resource of pharmacometrics knowledge and applications
Candidate Profile:
- Bachelor’s degree in pharmacy (B.Pharm), science (B.Sc), technology (B.Tech), pharmaceutical sciences, or related disciplines with 3-4 years of experience for the Sr. Associate position
- Master’s degree in the above disciplines with 0-3 years of experience for the Sr. Associate position
- Experience in quantitative data analysis skills
- Proficiency in programming languages such as R (preferred), SAS, MATLAB, C/C++, or Python
- Knowledge of statistics and drug development preferred
- Interest in working with clinical, medical, and biological information
- Strong communication skills (written and oral presentation)
- Familiarity with Microsoft Excel and Word
Additional Information:
- Experience: 0-4 years
- Qualification: B.Pharm, B.Sc, B.Tech
- Location: Chennai
- Industry Type: Pharma/Healthcare/Clinical Research
- Functional Area: Pharmacometrics
- Application Deadline: 30th July 2023
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