Advisor - Computational ADME Research Scientist

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Our Computational ADME (cADME) team is looking to add outstanding talent to the organization. We are an established cADME group within the multidisciplinary Drug Disposition organization. In this role you will apply in silico approaches to facilitate the extraction, sharing, and application of ADME structure-property relationship (SPR) knowledge. Integral to the position will be active engagement with project teams and innovative design of rational, hypothesis-driven experiments. Your efforts will help to increase the probability of achieving proof of concept in the clinic. This role will be instrumental in maintaining the existing in silico ADME toolbox while actively innovating and implementing new techniques.

Do you have the desire and drive to impact pharmaceutical research with your computational skills? Apply today and bring your hardworking passion for helping patients to the Lilly family!

• Independently research, develop and apply cheminformatics tools to design and guide in vitro/in vivo experiments for optimal gain of scientific, decision-level knowledge.
• Serve as a liaison to colleagues in Discovery Informatics and Computational Chemistry for seamless integration of ADME tools across the discovery research organization.
• Conduct concerted data analysis to understand the connectivity across in silico, in vitro, and in vivo ADME data for project teams.
• Share and effectively communicate computational perspective within project teams to design appropriate experiments and facilitate a multi-property optimization strategy.
• Use physiologically based pharmacokinetics (PBPK) principles for preclinical and clinical PK prediction to effectively and successfully drive projects.

• Ph.D. in computational chemistry, cheminformatics, statistics, computational biology or a related field.
• Experience in developing and applying cheminformatics tools for application in drug discovery preferred.

• Demonstrated experience/results working in interdisciplinary teams.
• Solid understanding of organic/medicinal chemistry
• Knowledgeable of principles of drug metabolism and/or pharmacokinetics
• Proficient in scripting/programming in one or more of the following languages: Python, JAVA, C/C++, R, Matlab
• Experience in applying advanced machine learning and statistical methodologies including QSAR for large scale data mining and modeling
• Familiarity in working with web based applications, databases and automated workflow tools such as Knime
• Proficiency in visualizing multi-dimensional scientific data using tools like Spotfire
• Strong communication skills and ability to influence without authority

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