Associate Scientist at Certara .

Responsibilities

• Deepen their strategic drug development expertise and their experience informing drug development decisions.   
• Perfect their pharmacometric techniques with fit-for-purpose modeling approaches such as population PK and PK/PD modeling, target-mediated drug disposition TMDD) models, dose- and exposure-response analyses.  
• Broaden their drug development expertise by working with a myriad of companies, molecular modalities, and therapeutic areas.   
• Develop their consulting career path by recognizing and seeking opportunities that match their ambition and personal interests.    
• Support projects for Certara’s clients by working in teams with other Associates, senior expert modelers, and drug development consultants.   
• Hands on pharmacometric modeling on client projects as a billable consultant.   
• Continuing education on advanced modeling and simulation approaches, with an emphasis on methods appropriate for small molecules and/or complex biologics, (bispecific biologics, chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapies, and immuno-oncology therapies).
• Conduct quality control activities on model codes and reports. 
• Support projects for Certara’s clients by working in teams with other Associates, senior expert modelers, and drug development consultants.
• Hands on pharmacometric modeling on client projects as a billable consultant.
• Continuing education on advanced modeling and simulation approaches, with an emphasis on methods appropriate for small molecules and/or complex biologics, (bispecific biologics, chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapies, and immuno-oncology therapies).
• Conduct quality control activities on model codes and reports.

Qualifications

• Completion of Certara's training and immersion programs
• MSc, PhD, PharmD, or equivalent in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Pharmacology, Toxicology, Statistics, Mathematics, or related fields.   
• A minimum of 1 to 3 years of industry/consulting experience (may be combined with academic research) working in R&D, pre-clinical and clinical environments.   
• Solid experience in pharmacometrics, clinical pharmacology, pharmacokinetics, or a related discipline in a project team setting is preferred, whether in academia or industry.   
• Expertise in PK/PD modeling with strong quantitative skills applied to develop models with nonlinear behavior, mechanistic or semi-mechanistic components relating to mechanism of action and tailored to meet specific drug-development questions.   
• Proficiency in software used for modeling analyses (e.g. Phoenix NLME, NONMEM, Adapt, Monolix) and performs dataset construction (e.g. R, SAS).  
• Independent performance of analysis and modeling and development of reports with limited supervision.   
• Proficient in spoken and written English. Certara is a global company, and additional languages are of benefit.