Dear All, Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) is seeking an Associate Director, PKPD Modelling and Simulation to join our Translational Medicine team. The position is based in Geneva, Switzerland.
JOB PURPOSE MMV is a Swiss non-profit foundation whose mission is to reduce the burden of malaria in disease-endemic countries by discovering, developing and delivering new, effective and affordable antimalarial drugs. Working with drug discovery/development partners in academia and industry, as well as with country-based delivery partners and national ministries of health/malaria control programmes, MMV's focus extends from the identification of new potential treatments for malaria through to clinical development, regulatory approval and delivery-for-impact in malaria-endemic countries. Since its founding in 1999, MMV and partners have brought forward 12 new medicines that have saved an estimated 1.9 million lives. PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: * Develop innovative models to help the integration of new data and/or new experiments * Develop PKPD modelling strategy for MMV projects in late discovery and development, undertake and supervise the delivery of the PKPD modelling across MMV's therapeutic indications * Develop and apply modelling solutions for monotherapy and combination therapy * Summarize, interpret and clarify PKPD results to ensure that valuable scientific information is provided in a timely manner to drive team decisions * Communicate PKPD modelling strategy and results to project teams, MMV management and regulators * Contribute to establishing pharmacometrics capabilities and infrastructure (eg development of tools for recurrent and consistent analysis, development and implementation of guidance documents and SOPs within the Pharmacometrics Team) * Provide pharmacometrics components for submission to regulatory authorities * Author and publish high-quality research articles * Attend selected conferences for training, giving presentations and posters, representing MMV, and building a network EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: * Ph.D. in Biomedical Science, Pharmacy, Clinical Pharmacology, Biometrics or Computational Engineering * At least 5 years of experience (academia and/or industry) with a proven track record within the duties mentioned above * Published peer-reviewed articles * Familiarity with the drug development process * Experience working in a cross-functional matrix START DATE: As soon as possible MORE INFORMATION AND APPLICATION: https://www.mmv.org/about-us/work-us/jobs#op-318847-associate-director-pkpd-modelling-and-simulation Nathalie Gobeau, PhD| Medicines for Malaria Venture Director, Translational Medicine T: +41 22 555 03 64<tel:+41%2022%20555%2003%2064> | M: +41 76 442 65 26<tel:+41%2076%20442%2065%2026> Email:gobe...@mmv.org<mailto:gobe...@mmv.org> Defeating Malaria Together |www.mmv.org<http://www.mmv.org/> FOLLOW US ON: [Description: facebook] <http://www.facebook.com/medicinesformalaria> [Description: twitter] <http://twitter.com/MedsforMalaria> [Description: linkedin] <https://www.linkedin.com/company/medicinesformalariaventure> [Description: youtube] <http://www.youtube.com/user/MMVMeds4Malaria> ________________________________ This email and any attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete the email and any attachments and notify the sender immediately. ________________________________
