Quantitative Systems Pharmacology Student Placement

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Full time
Location: London
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Job offered by: Certara
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Category:
Overview

About Certara

Certara accelerates medicines using proprietary biosimulation software, technology and services to transform traditional drug discovery and development. Its clients include more than 2,000 biopharmaceutical companies, academic institutions, and regulatory agencies across 62 countries.

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. This role does not include laboratory work.

Responsibilities

Technical A-level or equivalent in biology and mathematics, physics, or computer science. 2+ years undergraduate degree education in biomedical/life sciences, bioengineering, biochemistry, or similar. 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, plotting, and model building as appropriate. Technical Introductory knowledge of pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, pharmacology, and biology (including immunology). Experience in basic programming, for example using R, Python or Matlab. Team working Experienced in working in multi-disciplinary teams. Role Contribute materially to mathematical Systems Pharmacology model development. Qualifications

Certara bases all employment-related decision on merit, taking into consideration qualifications, skills, achievement, and performance. We treat all applicants and employees without regard to personal characteristics such as race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, nationality, marital status, pregnancy, physical or mental condition, genetic information, military service, or other characteristic protected by law.

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