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<DIV>Senior Scientist, BioInformatics, Drug Safety Evaluation<BR>Northeast
Pharma<BR><BR>A major multinational pharmaceutical company, headquartered in the
Northeast, has retained Bench International exclusively to identify an
exceptional individual to lead the bioinformatics function within the Company’s
Global Drug Safety Evaluation organization. The Company recently has committed
significant investment in emerging technologies dedicated to Drug Safety in
order to make better, earlier decisions about which molecules should move
forward in Development. Such technologies include proteomics, genomics, imaging
and advanced pathology methods, which are used to generate fundamental data from
assays performed in a wide range of systems including, cell-based assays, animal
studies and clinical trials. <BR></DIV>
<DIV>The role of this position will be to work across multidisciplinary teams,
including Drug Safety, Clinical Research and Drug Discovery, to develop and
implement systems and applications for annotating and for visualization and
mining of complex data sets obtained from the application of such technologies
in the laboratory and the clinic. Additionally, the incumbent will have
responsibility to integrate such data with conventional toxicology and clinical
safety information and to develop new databases of molecular toxicology
information. The incumbent will have a significant role in interoperation of
information gained from these analyses and in guiding the company to apply such
results appropriately to drug development decisions. <BR></DIV>
<DIV>The qualified individual will have a PhD, or equivalent, in life sciences
or pharmaceutical chemistry with an emphasis on computational biology or
bioinformatics. Experience in toxicology or other pre-clinical sciences will be
a benefit. A substantial track record of achievement as evidenced by significant
publication in peer-reviewed journals is highly desirable. The incumbent will
have substantial experience in the use, development and applications of
relational databases and querying, data mining and visualization tools as well
associated programming languages (e.g., Perl, UNIX, JAVA, HTML). The successful
candidate will have strong interpersonal, management and communications skills,
as well as the ability and experience to work effectively within complex,
matrixed teams and will be adaptable to changing needs and priorities.
<BR></DIV>
<DIV>If you would like any additional information regarding this position or
know of someone who might be appropriate for it, please contact me by return
e-mail <A
href="mailto:cgiffin@benchinternational.com">cgiffin@benchinternational.com</A>
or by telephone at (310) 854-9900.<BR><BR>Very truly yours,<BR><BR>J.
Christopher Giffin</DIV>
<DIV>Vice President<BR>Bench International, Inc.</DIV></BODY></HTML>