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Executive Appointment Mandate ID: EX-1008448231699

Quantitative Systems Pharmacology Student Placement

Certara · πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ Remote · βœ“ Certified Corporate Entity
Compensation Bracket Β£20,000 - Β£20,000
Tenure & Discipline Executive Full-Time
Jurisdiction United States
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Executive Mandate Specification

Overview:

Opening Date for Applications: Monday 30th January 2023

Closing Date for Applications: Friday 24th February 2023

Interviews: Week commencing, Monday 6th March 2023


Line of Management:
Principal Scientist, QSP / Director, QSP

Position Type: Full Time, year placement starting September 2023

Holiday Entitlement: 25 days, plus statutory bank holidays

Salary: Β£20,000

Location: Sheffield or Canterbury UK

Job Overview:

We are seeking undergraduate level first degree students who share our passion for using quantitative approaches to understand and impact complex drug discovery and development questions. The students will learn about the exciting breaking science of QSP, utilising mathematical systems models of disease to discover and develop novel medicines. They will work in close collaboration with Certara staff to help generate state-of-the-art QSP models for users in pharmaceutical R&D. The models will be designed in dialogue with the clients and developed with a view to creating user-friendly models that will inform drug development programs from discovery to regulatory filing.
Qualifications:

Requirements:

Essential
Technical
  • A-level or equivalent biology, chemistry, physics.
  • 2 years undergraduate degree education biomedical/life sciences.
Team working
  • Good interpersonal skills.
Personal
  • Passionate about using mathematical approaches to improve drug discovery.
  • Self-motivated.
  • Willing to work in, or relocate to, Canterbury or Sheffield, UK.
Other skills
  • Computer literate and familiar with modern communications technology.
  • Familiar with Excel, PowerPoint, Word etc.
  • Some familiarity with the use of search engines/PubMed etc. to find biomedical scientific data.
Role
  • Work with QSP modellers to find and interpret relevant data via literature searching and, where appropriate, capture this data.
  • Rendering data in appropriate format for fitting and/or analysis.
  • Data fitting and model building as appropriate.

Desirable
Technical
  • Mathematics A-level. Willing to learn more about pharmacokinetics, pharmacology and biology.
Team working
  • Experienced in working in multi-disciplinary teams.
Role
  • Contribute materially to mathematical Systems Pharmacology model development.

Please ensure you submit a covering letter with your application as applications without a covering will not be considered.

Statutory Executive Benefits & Governance

  • Executive Health, Vision & Dental Coverage with Global Provider Options
  • Corporate Pension Auto-Enrolment / 401(k) Retirement Plan with Fiduciary Matching
  • Annual Discretionary Performance Incentive & Long-Term Equity Participation
  • Executive Leave Allotment, Statutory Holidays & Dedicated Health Care Reserves
  • US Department of Labor & E-Verify Work Authorization Sponsorship
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