Senior Scientist, Translational Modeling & Simulation

Why Patients Need You

Pfizer's purpose is to deliver breakthroughs that change patients' lives. Research and Development is at the heart of fulfilling Pfizer's purpose as we work to translate advanced science and technologies into the therapies and vaccines that matter most. Whether you are in the discovery sciences, ensuring drug safety and efficacy or supporting clinical trials, you will apply cutting edge design and process development capabilities to accelerate and bring the best - in - class medicines to patients around the world.

What You Will Achieve

At Pfizer we deliver b reakthroughs t hat c hange p atients ' l ives. In this role, you'll be joining a team which plays a vital role in this mission through model-based drug development (MBDD) a mathematical and statistical approach that constructs, validates and utilizes disease, placebo, exposure-response and pharmaco - metric models to evaluate risk and facilitate drug development, in close collaboration with R&D partners.

As a Senior Scientist, you will be at the center of our operations and you'll find that everything we do, every day, is in line with an unwavering commitment to quality. You will be recognized as a technical expert and a scientific contributor. With your deep knowledge of the discipline, you will be an active team member whose decisions impact the project. You will be using your scientific judgment to adapt standard methods and techniques by applying prior work experience. You will be forecasting and planning resource requirements for your project team. Your creativity in developing novel processes and new ideas will be used frequently. You will undertake mentoring activities to guide team members.

It is your hard work and dedication that will make Pfizer ready to achieve new milestones and help patients across the globe.

How You Will Achieve It

• Apply technical and functional knowledge to design experiments and independently complete work within own work group/ project team, working on multiple subprojects in parallel.
  
• Act as a technical and scientific resource within own project team/discipline.
  
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary project teams to develop and implement mechanistic mathematical models of pharmacology to aid in target selection, target prioritization, therapeutic modality selection, chemical/biotherapeutic optimization, biomarker characterization and early clinical trial design.
  
• Liaise with research biology/pharmacology to help in the development of in-vitro assays and in-vivo models to generate data that inform pre-clinical to clinical translated PKPD models.
  
• Provide expert support to project teams to design, execute and interpret quantitative pharmacology studies.
  
• Collaborate and maintain an active relationship with Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacometrics at the project level as well as in the advancement of modeling and simulations sciences.
  
• Network as appropriate with global experts in the department and other groups to share learnings and enhance consistency in best practices across sites, disease areas and therapeutic approaches.
  
• Keep up to date with emerging literature and science in the systems pharmacology modeling and simulation sciences.
  

Qualifications

Must-Have

• Ph.D. degree with 0-3 years of experience with a degree concentration in mathematics, engineering or other disciplines with a strong quantitative analysis component, preferably with an emphasis on biological/biopharmaceutical modeling and simulation
• Excellent understanding of theory, principles and statistical aspects of advanced mathematical modeling and simulation
• Ability to effectively translate/condense/summarize outcomes of modeling and simulation analyses into useable information for multidisciplinary project teams
• Good team player and communicator
• Good listener and ability to effectively interact with colleagues with a variety of backgrounds
• Keen to interact as a modeling and simulation expert with matrix project teams working closely with within departmental as well as biology, protein engineering and clinical scientists
• In depth, hands-on knowledge of the state-of-the-art modeling and simulation software (e.g., NONMEM, MATLAB, Simbiology, Phoenix, Berkeley-Madonna, R)
• Ability to learn new areas of biological sciences and build on solid foundation of quantitative skills to develop mechanistically relevant PKPD models
• Ability to keep up to date with and propose the implementation of scientific and technological developments in the area of PKPD modeling and simulation

Qualifications

Nice-to-Have

• Understanding of the basic principles of pharmacokinetics (non-compartmental, compartmental, PBPK)
• Familiarity with standard (e.g., monoclonal antibody, Fc-fusion proteins) and novel (e.g., bispecifics antibodies, gene therapies) biotherapeutic modalities

Other Job Details:

• Last Date to Apply for Job: November 30, 2021
• Eligible for Employee Referral
• Eligible for Relocation Package

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