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Post Doctoral Fellow, Clinical Pharmacology and DMPK

Employer
Theravance Biopharma
Location
South San Francisco, CA
Start date
Dec 5, 2018

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Discipline
Clinical, Clinical Research, Science/R&D, Pharmacology
Required Education
Masters Degree/MBA
Position Type
Full time
Hotbed
Biotech Bay

Job Details

Job Purpose

The Clinical Pharmacology and DMPK (CPDMPK) department at Theravance Biopharma, in partnering with Simulations Plus, Inc., is seeking a Ph.D. level candidate who is driven to use modeling and simulation (M&S) approaches, with special focus on physiologically-based pharmacokinetic modeling techniques (PBPK), to better understand the depositional characteristics of preclinical and clinical drug candidates developed within Theravance Biopharma. This individual will be responsible for the development and implementation of a PBPK platform to evaluate multiple candidates with pulmonary delivery as the method of administration. The PBPK platform will cover multiple species to enable modeling and simulation across these species for translational purposes. The overall work will be done using GastroPlus™ as the main PBPK software package.

Duties and Responsibilities

Primary responsibilities are to plan, organize, execute, and report PBPK modeling work independently, as well as to present the work within DMPK/clinical pharmacology functions, at cross-functional teams, and conferences as needed. These will be accomplished by working closely with co-mentor(s) from Simulations Plus. Additionally, the candidate will also work closely with other scientists in DMPK/Clinical Pharmacology, Preclinical and Translational research, and other functions. 

Qualifications

Candidates should have solid expertise in PBPK and strong hands-on M&S skills. Hands-on experience with GastroPlus, Simcyp, Matlab SimBiology, and/or other PBPK software is required. Hands-on experience with other modeling and simulation software (such as ADAPT, Berkeley-Madonna, NONMEM, and SPLUS/R) is a plus. The candidate must have excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Company

Theravance Biopharma is a diversified biopharmaceutical company with the core purpose of creating medicines that help improve the lives of patients suffering from serious illness.

Our pipeline of internally discovered product candidates includes potential best-in-class medicines to address the unmet needs of patients being treated for serious conditions primarily in the acute care setting. VIBATIV® (telavancin), our first commercial product, is a once-daily dual-mechanism antibiotic approved in the U.S., Europe and certain other countries for certain difficult-to-treat infections. Revefenacin (TD-4208) is a long-acting muscarinic antagonist (LAMA) being developed as a potential once-daily, nebulized treatment for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Our neprilysin (NEP) inhibitor program is designed to develop selective NEP inhibitors for the treatment of a range of major cardiovascular and renal diseases, including acute and chronic heart failure, hypertension and chronic kidney diseases such as diabetic nephropathy. Our research efforts are focused in the areas of inflammation and immunology, with the goal of designing medicines that provide targeted drug delivery to tissues in the lung and gastrointestinal tract in order to maximize patient benefit and minimize risk. The first program to emerge from this research is designed to develop intestinally restricted pan-Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitors for the treatment of a range of inflammatory intestinal diseases.

In addition, we have an economic interest in future payments that may be made by Glaxo Group Limited or one of its affiliates pursuant to its agreements with Innoviva, Inc. relating to certain drug development programs, including the combination of fluticasone furoate, umeclidinium, and vilanterol (the Closed Triple), currently in development for the treatment of COPD and asthma.

Company info
Website
Phone
650-808-6000
Location
901 Gateway Boulevard
South San Francisco
California
94080
US

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