Job title: Specialist in Pharmacometry for Personalized Medicine. Job description: Vivia is pioneering personalizing treatments in blood cancers by evaluating directly in patient samples the pharmacological effect of real-life treatments in eliminating individual patient tumor cells. We have collected a wealth of data on ~40 individual drugs and ~100 drug combination treatments in terms of dose responses in more than 400 patient samples for 4 indications. Candidate will lead the internal effort to analyze this pioneering wealth of data with NOMEN and population models. This analysis is achieving 90% prediction rates enabling launching sales in Q3 2013. This is a key position within the company and we are flexible on the position and salary based on candidates profiles.
Job requirements: PhD in pharmacokinetics, pharmacometrics, or related scientific field Pharmacokinetics and Phamacodynamics. Candidate must have 5-10 years hands-on experience and knowledge of analysis and modeling software (i.e. NONMEM, Phoenix NLME and CTS, Berkeley Madonna) and statistical software (R, S+, etc.). We will use NOMMEN 7.2 and population modeling approaches. Work Environment: This position is based in Madrid, Spain. It requires significant interactions with internal colleagues from other departments and with external colleagues and consultants. Vivia provides a highly motivational environment where all scientists understand that our personalized medicine test implies that the result of their work every day can mean life or death for an individual cancer patient, a rare employment opportunity that needs to be taken into account very seriously. Vivia Biotech: Launched in September 2007, Vivia Biotech raised €4 M in seed capital with VC Funds, a record in Spain, and has recently raised a new round of €7 M to launch sales of its PM test. Vivia Biotech is worldwide pioneer in the “screening” and profiling of thousands of drugs on a patient blood samples, thanks to the ExviTech technological platform. This platform, ExviTech, developed originally at USA by an American team moved to Spain to start up Vivia, a pioneer company with international recognition that has been able to take scientific advantage at Spain’s world leadership in terms of altruistic donation of organs and samples for research. Vivia´s team is formed by 28 highly qualified professionals, dedicated to improving the life expectancy and quality of patients with blood cancers. Joan Ballesteros, Ph.D. Chairman & CSO Vivia Biotech Spain Tel: +34 649 872032 Web: www.vivibiotech.com<http://www.vivibiotech.com>
