Quantitative Systems Pharmacology Student Placement

Opening Date for Applications: Monday 30th January 2023

Closing Date for Applications: Friday 24th February 2023

Interviews: Week commencing, Monday 6th March 2023

Line of Management: Principal Scientist, QSP / Director, QSP

Position Type: Full Time, year placement starting September 2023

Holiday Entitlement: 25 days, plus statutory bank holidays

Salary: £20,000

Location: Sheffield or Canterbury UK

Job Overview:

Requirements:

• A-level or equivalent biology, chemistry, physics.
• 2 years undergraduate degree education biomedical/life sciences.

• Good interpersonal skills.

• Passionate about using mathematical approaches to improve drug discovery.
• Self-motivated.
• Willing to work in, or relocate to, Canterbury or Sheffield, UK.

• Computer literate and familiar with modern communications technology.
• Familiar with Excel, PowerPoint, Word etc.
• Some familiarity with the use of search engines/PubMed etc. to find biomedical scientific data.

• Work with QSP modellers to find and interpret relevant data via literature searching and, where appropriate, capture this data.
• Rendering data in appropriate format for fitting and/or analysis.
• Data fitting and model building as appropriate.

• Mathematics A-level. Willing to learn more about pharmacokinetics, pharmacology and biology.

• Experienced in working in multi-disciplinary teams.

• Contribute materially to mathematical Systems Pharmacology model development.

Please ensure you submit a covering letter with your application as applications without a covering will not be considered.