Senior Research Scientist I, Drug Metabolism

Senior Research Scientist I, Drug Metabolism
United States - California - Foster City

Gilead Sciences, Inc. is a research-based bio-pharmaceutical company that discovers, develops and commercializes innovative medicines in areas of unmet medical need. With each new discovery and investigational drug candidate, we seek to improve the care of patients living with life-threatening diseases around the world. Gilead's therapeutic areas of focus include HIV/AIDS, liver diseases, cancer and inflammation, and serious respiratory and cardiovascular conditions.

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Gilead Sciences, Inc. is a research-based biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops and commercializes innovative medicines in areas of unmet medical need. With each new discovery and investigational drug candidate, we seek to improve the care of patients living with life-threatening diseases around the world. Gilead's therapeutic areas of focus include viral diseases (such as HIV/AIDS, hepatitis, COVID and other respiratory viruses), cancer and inflammation and is headquartered in Foster City, California.

Specific Responsibilities:

The primary responsibility of this position is to design and monitor or conduct experiments to understand the absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion (ADME) and drug-drug interaction (DDI) properties of drug candidates. The scientist will also serve as a drug metabolism and pharmacokinetic (DMPK) representative on multidisciplinary project teams and provide guidance to solve ADME liabilities. Supervision of other scientists and/or laboratory staff would likely be required.

Essential Duties and Job Responsibilities:

• Serve as DMPK subject matter expert for multiple dynamic cross-functional teams, to define ADME strategies to achieve target product profiles, integrate in vitro and in vivo drug disposition data, interpretation, and give presentations to teams.
• Work closely with internal and external resources to assure timely delivery of high quality DMPK data.
• An advantage would be the ability to design and perform complex PK analyses, carry out model development and PK/PD analyses to answer translational questions, and to provide DMPK guidance for project teams.
• Provide clear verbal communication of results and strategies at group, department, project team and management level. Write research reports and regulatory documents.
• Contribute to science through conference presentations and publication of new findings.

Knowledge, Experience and Skills:

• Requires a highly motivated individual with PhD degree in life sciences with 3 to 5 years of post-doctoral and/or industry experience.
• Demonstrates excellent scientific verbal and technical communication, and interpersonal skills. Must be organized, pay attention to details and have strong organizational and planning skills.
• Requires hands-on experience and deep knowledge of pharmacokinetics, biotransformation, enzymology, transporter sciences or related pharmacology.
• Expertise and experience in one or more of the following areas:
  
  • Experience in drug development, authoring documents for regulatory authorities
  • State of the art bioanalysis by LC/MS and related techniques
  • Metabolite identification and understanding of reactive metabolite chemistry
  • Biochemical and cell-based approaches to study the metabolism and/or transport of drug candidates
  • Understand the principles, theories and approaches of pharmacokinetics, drug disposition and drug interactions. Proven application of modeling methods for quantitative translation using Simcyp, GastroPlus and/or general kinetic modeling programs.
  • Bioanalysis and disposition processes of therapeutic proteins

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