Director - Quantitative Systems Pharmacology

The Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Quantitative Medicine (CPQM) in Respiratory, Immunology and Inflammation Research Unit, R&D GSK is recruiting for a Director-level Quantitative Systems Pharmacologist Lead to join the Quantitative Systems Pharmacology team. The CPQM at GSK is a newly established organization with the remit to become a Centre of Excellence in Model-Informed Drug Development (MIDD). It uniquely integrates clinical pharmacology, digital medicine, translational imaging, and mechanistic & systems modeling.

This is an exciting opportunity to bring your vision and leadership to a new era of digital innovation in clinical pharmacology and quantitative medicine, profoundly impacting patient outcomes and shaping the future of R&D at GSK.

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• Build and/or guide mathematical model development to understand disease, its progression, and drug action to prevent, treat and cure diseases; conduct simulations to assess trial design performance
  
• Apply mechanistic models of biological, physiological, and pathophysiological processes to evaluate a disease, its pathways and progression, as well as drug candidates or treatment modalities
  
• Develop and/or utilize state-of-the-art mathematical tools including knowledge of inverse-problem modelling and simulation, scientific ML and/or statistical techniques to gain insight into causal relationships between individual components of system-level and drug-level responses of drug-target-biomarker-disease-patient interaction
  
• Define and execute a coordinated scientific and technical strategy (18-24 months planning horizon) with demonstrated ability to co-ordinate outputs from several expertise areas to determine strategy
  
• Work in close collaboration with biologists, clinicians, clinical pharmacologists, pharmacometricians, statisticians, AIML, imaging, biomarker and other partner line colleagues to inform research and development programs and improve our understanding of disease mechanisms
  
• Implement best practices, trends, lessons learned from internal and external sources to further clinical pharmacology modelling and simulation contributions to R&D pipeline
  
• Create a collaboration framework with internal and external experts in the development and application of these models
  
• Learn and apply emerging modeling and simulation methodologies with a view to enhance clinical program efficiency and investment decision quality; collaborate with external field-leading teams for methodology application
  
• Able to efficiently and effectively interact with line and middle management, staff and external contacts on a functional, strategic and tactical level
  
• Represent QSP CPQM on various internal advisory boards, companywide initiatives and/or leadership teams
  
• Promote transparency and communicate R&D achievements through publications in appropriate scientific journals
  

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• PhD, MD, or PharmD with experience in mechanistic modelling and simulation and systems biology with applications in pharmaceutical research and development
  
• Substantial experience in mechanistic mathematical modeling, inverse problem modeling and simulation, and/or scientific machine learning methodologies to apply to pre-clinical and/or clinical questions in drug development
  
• Strong drive and agility to quickly learn and build knowledge on a drug-disease system, the mechanism, endpoints, progression, prevention, treatments, and trial design
  
• Demonstrated aptitude for productive collaboration in a multi-discipline team, using effective communication and taking personal accountability for timely delivery of results
  
• Clear evidence of ability to make sound judgement in complex situations and adapt to changing business needs by prioritizing multiple tasks
  
• Experience working with senior stakeholders in a cross functional environment
  
• Track record of implementation of Model-Informed Drug Discovery and Development (MIDD) approaches to accelerate patient access to novel therapies
  

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• Prior experience in Respiratory, Hepatology and/or Infections diseases is a plus
  

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases – to impact health at scale.

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