Safety Pharmacology Specialist (R-043516) Gothenburg, Sweden
Safety Pharmacology Specialist
Are you a highly experienced Pharmacology Expert seeking to apply your scientific knowledge to meet unmet patient needs? Would you like to join a company where everyone can thrive?
We are looking for a Safety Pharmacologist Specialist to join our group based in Gothenburg or Cambridge. You will be responsible for defining the overall Safety Pharmacology strategy for Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolic (CVRM) projects and for supporting drug projects with Safety Pharmacology expertise. You’ll establish and drive partnerships within and beyond AstraZeneca to address the challenges presented by AstraZeneca’s innovative drug projects.
In Drug Safety and Metabolism (DSM), we place a strong emphasis on talent development. In our department, we will empower you by giving you the chance to develop your scientific leadership by collaborating with experienced leaders from all different functions within the company. Do you want to join us?
Main Responsibilities
As Safety Pharmacology Specialist, you will use your scientific depth to develop and implement strategies as well as hands on tools for safety pharmacology within drug development projects. Your interpersonal, networking and partner management skills will be critical to become successful in this role. We expect you to collaborate with other experts across the development chain, to deliver pharmacology packages that meet time, cost and quality standards.
Your main tasks will include:
- Working at the efficacy:safety interface, develop strategies to optimize safety profiles of new medicines in patients
- Develop patient-centric safety pharmacology risk assessment strategies applicable to novel therapeutic modalities, where conventional approaches may not be appropriate or possible
- Design fit for purpose safety pharmacology packages for projects
- Author non-clinical safety pharmacology sections of regulatory submission documents and engage with regulatory authorities to secure approval of IMPD/IND and MAA/NDA submissions
- Build DSM’s reputation as an industry leading function through high impact publications and partnerships that extend safety pharmacology beyond the boundaries defined by ICH S7A and S7B
Essential Requirements
- Excellent scientist with a PhD (or equivalent experience) in pharmacology, toxicology, pathology or a related Natural Science discipline
- Proven strong scientific track record and problem-solving capabilities
- Extensive experience in design and interpretation of high quality studies, translating scientific findings into applicable information in a drug development environment
- Familiar with pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic and systems pharmacology approaches
- Validated ability to run portfolio of projects including prioritize activities in a matrix environment
- Understanding of the external factors that shape the scientific and regulatory landscapes relevant to Safety Pharmacology
- Strong communication and presentation skills, ability to work across multi-disciplinary teams
Desired Requirements
- Experience of Safety Pharmacology in drug discovery and development, with exposure to non-clinical safety assessment in a project setting
- Diplomat of Safety Pharmacology, DABT or ERT accreditation
If you are interested, apply now!
For more information about the role please contact Mike Rolf, +46 703 65 46 90.
Welcome with your application no later than March 10, 2019.
At AstraZeneca we’ll make the most of your skills and passion by actively supporting you. To do this, we’ve built an outstanding international working environment that’s full of extraordinary as well as opportunities for collaboration and innovation. If you’re encouraged to make a difference and ready to discover what you can do – join us.
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