Real World Evidence Scientist

An exciting opportunity has arisen to work at a leading pharmaceutical company as their Real World Evidence Scientist. You will join a team looking for ways to support drug development, the candidate will also bring a consistent track record of delivering value through the use of routinely collected data from healthcare settings to provide health analytics and insights.

Job Responsibilities

• Developing real world cohorts of patients matching clinical trial inclusion exclusion criteria
• Analysing longitudinal health data to characterise patient journeys and outcomes
• Sifting claims and prescription data for use patterns and to support label expansion
• Building predictive models of patient outcomes
• Identifying patient subtypes (e.g. via biomarkers) for possible therapy development
• Building synthetic and external control arms to support the interpretation of clinical studies
• Development of algorithms for better diagnosis and identification of patients
• Searching for evidence of adverse effects in medical histories
• Using federated networks of electronic health records for patient identification and recruitment
• Using real world evidence to support pragmatic and hybrid trial designs
• Partnering with external organisations to generate bespoke real world datasets

Skills and Requirements

• MSc/PhD in data science or other advanced degree in life sciences with post-doctoral or other training/work in Medical Informatics or related field
• Use of statistical and scripting languages such as R, Python and SQL
• Clinical trials and recruitment, especially the application of synthetic control arms
• Ability to lead & manage multi-disciplinary epidemiological projects
• Strong background of delivering large, cross functional projects
• Experience working in a global organisation and delivering global solutions
• Health analytics and data mining of routinely collected healthcare data
• The application of genomics in clinical care or translational medicine
• Experience in the use of Instant Health Data

To Apply

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