Summary
About the Role
Your responsibilities will include:
- Conceive, design, and execute exploratory analyses as Lead Data Scientist across First in Human, Phase I-III clinical trials, applying advanced analytical methods as required.
- Participate in and lead cross-functional biomarker collaborations with Discovery and Development partners to support target selection, clinical development, and registration activities.
- Provide subject matter expertise for high-dimensional clinical data (genetics, genomics, digital, and/or imaging) and analysis solutions to inform patient stratification and enrichment strategies.
- Work expeditiously as a member of matrixed clinical trial teams with diverse membership and expertise
Minimum Requirements:
Minimum requirements
What you will bring to the role:
- PhD, MD or equivalent experience in computational biology, bioinformatics, statistical genetics, biostatistics, machine learning, data science or related field.
- Three or more years of experience in analyzing large-scale biological datasets in a drug discovery/development or relevant academic setting.
- Expert knowledge of statistical programming in R and Bioconductor. Proficiency with Unix/Bash, Python, or similar scripting language a must.
- Strong grasp of human genomics and next generation sequencing technologies, including experience implementing reproducible and scalable pipeline workflows in a HPC or cloud environment.
- Previous experience in single-cell and/or spatial transcriptomics data analyses. TCR/BCR repertoire analysis at bulk and/or single-cell level a plus.
- Experience and knowledge of integrative methods to derive biological insights jointly from transcriptomics, proteomics and spatially resolved single-cell data.
- Strong understanding of biostatistics and machine learning, including longitudinal analysis.
- Experience with generative coding assistants, copilots and developer tools highly desirable.
Why consider Novartis?
750 million. That’s how many lives our products touch. And while we’re proud of that fact, in this world of digital and technological transformation, we must also ask ourselves this: How can we continue to improve and extend even more people’s lives?
We believe the answers are found when curious, courageous, and collaborative people like you are empowered to ask new questions, make bold decisions, and take smart risks.
We are Novartis. Join us and help us reimagine medicine.
Why Novartis: Helping people with disease and their families takes more than innovative science. It takes a community of smart, passionate people like you. Collaborating, supporting and inspiring each other. Combining to achieve breakthroughs that change patients’ lives. Ready to create a brighter future together? https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture
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