The Department of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, and AbbVie Inc. offer a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in clinical pharmacology and pharmacometrics. The fellowship will offer didactic and hands-on experience focused on clinical pharmacology approaches to guide drug development and the application of pharmacometrics modeling and simulation techniques.

Primary Duties:
-Gain didactic and hands-on experience in clinical pharmacology study design/protocol development, data collection, and data analysis.
-Successfully complete selected workshops and courses in pharmacometrics and related areas, to ensure base knowledge of the field.
-Participate in multi-disciplinary teams and apply modeling and simulation approaches to forecast PK and outcome measures and guide dose selection
-Participate in various research projects with UMN/AbbVie scientists.
-Author a minimum of one peer-reviewed poster with preparation if not submission of a manuscript for publication
-Made at least one formal presentation to peers at a seminar, workshop or national meeting related to research completed to date

UMN Preceptor

Primary: Lisa Coles, MS, PhD with collaboration from others as appropriate

AbbVie Preceptor

Ahmed H. Salem, PhD, FCP

Required Qualifications
-PhD, PharmD or MD in Pharmaceutical Sciences, (Bio)Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Medicine, or a related field.
-Excellent writing and communications skills.
-Ability to work independently and as a member of a diverse interdisciplinary team.

Preferred Qualifications:
-Background in pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics.
-Experience in conducting clinical pharmacology studies.
-Experience utilizing pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic principles and common pharmacometric approaches Experience utilizing tools for quantitative clinical pharmacology such as NONMEM, R, WinNonlin, and Monolix.

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