Postdoctoral fellowship at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

From: Chee ng Date: September 17, 2013 job Source: mail-archive.com
The Children Hospital of Philadelphia is offering a postdoctoral fellowship position in clinical pharmacology and pharmacometrics. This fellowship is focused on the application of pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic/pharmacogenetic/disease modeling and simulation to facilitate the drug development in industry and improve patient care in academic setting. Fellow has the opportunity to gain a breadth of experience including: population pharmacokinetic and mechanistic modeling of the biotechnology drugs (therapeutic monoclonal antibodies, antibody-drug conjugates and others); disease modeling to study the combination effects of several approved drugs in cancer patients, population pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic/pharmacogenetic modeling of buprenorphine/midazolam/morphine in pediatric patients from NIH-funded studies. The fellow is also has an option to involve in other projects such as the development/evaluation of the advanced numerical and computation methods for population data analysis, and pharmacogenetic study to assess the effect of FcRn expression on the antibody disposition in adult and pediatric population. An ideal candidate will have a doctoral degree (PhD, PharmD) in pharmaceutical science, biology, engineering, pharmacy or other related field and have experience or familiarity with mathematical modeling, such as NONMEM, MATLAB, R, or any other applicable software. Interested applicants can forward a CV and contact information for references to the following: Chee M Ng, PharmD, PhD, FCP Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics Director, NVIDIA CUDA Research Center for Drug Development Assistant Professor Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania 3501 Civic Center Blvd, CTRB Room 4010 Philadelphia, PA 19104 Tel: 267-4262826 [email protected] [email protected]