Job Post: Biostatistician/Director of Biostatistics

Job Post: Biostatistician/Director of Biostatistics for a Contract Research Organization (CRO)

Location: variable

-Client facing
-Experience with FDA submissions – NDA, INDs
-3 plus years of Biostats experience in a pharma/CRO
-experience in Phase I,II, III clinical trials
-experience with CDISC
-PhD preferred

Contact: paul.s.kim@us.ibm.com

BioSpace Pharm Country Career Fair

Looking for a job in the biotech or pharmaceutical industry? How about with a contract research organization or CRO?

BioSpace Pharm Country Career Fair
Radisson Valley Forge
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
11am - 4pm

Learn more here.

Clinical Research Professionals Marketplace

The Association of Clinical Research Professionals (ACRP) has recently launched the Clinical Research Professionals Marketplace.

This serves the clinical research enterprise and features searchable profiles and contact information for companies offering specialty services in five categories: Business Services, Contract Research, Educational Services, Information Technology, and Site Services.

The ACRP Clinical Research Professionals Marketplace serves the breadth and depth of the enterprise devoted to the development of new drugs, medical devices, and therapeutic approaches—from the needs of academic medical centers to training providers, institutional review boards to electronic data capture services, project management to translation professionals, patient recruitment to staffing specialists, laboratories to pharmacovigilance units, and more.

Pharmacovigilance service providers

You don't have to work in a major pharmaceutical company to gain experience working in pharmacovigilance. There are a number of pharmacovigilance service providers that will employ health care professionals who are looking for non-clinical jobs in the area of pharmacovigilance.  Here's a list of some of those companies (many of these companies are also contract research organizations or CROs):

    * 4G Pharmacovigilance LLP
    * Akos
    * Chiltern
    * Fulcrumpharma
    * ii4sm International Institute for the Safety of Medicines
    * Parexel
    * Pharm-Olam International
    * PrimeVigilance
    * QSI
    * Quintiles
    * Synowledge LLC
    * BioSoteria, Inc.
    * PharSafer
    * BPI Service GmbH

This list can be found on Wikipedia here.

Top 10 Contract Research Organizations

Here's what Wikipedia has to say about Contract Research Organizations (CROs):

A Contract Research Organization, also called a Clinical Research Organization, (CRO) is a service organization that provides support and/or services for clinical trials. CROs support the pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device industries as well as foundations, research institutions, and universities, in addition to governmental organizations (such as the NIH, EMEA, etc.). There are over 1,100 CROs in the world. It is a very fragmented industry with the top 10 controlling 56.1% of the market in 2008. One estimate had the size of the market set to reach $24 billion in 2010 and set to grow at a rate of 8.5% through 2015.

Top 10 CROs:

1. Quintiles ($2.5 billion)[2][6]
2. Covance ($1.8 billion)[2][6]
3. Pharmaceutical Product Development (PPD) ($1.4 billion in sales)[2][7]
4. Charles River Laboratories (CRL) ($1.2 Billion sales)[6]
5. Parexel ($930 million in sales)[6]
6. ICON ($887 million)[8]
7. Kendle ($590 million in sales) [6]
8. Pharmanet ($470 million in sales)[6]
9. PRA International ($410 million in sales)[6]
10. Aptuit ($370 million in 2009)[6]

PPD (global contract research organization) adds 190 jobs in Virginia

Here are some snippets from a recent news story about PPD, a global contract research organization or CRO:

RICHMOND, Va., Dec. 10 -- Gov. Bob McDonnell, R-Va., issued the following news release:

Governor Bob McDonnell announced today that PPD, Inc. (Nasdaq: PPDI), a leading global contract research organization providing drug discovery, development, and lifecycle management services, plans to invest $28 million to expand its Lab Services Division in Henrico County over the next three years. The operation provides research and development services and clinical trial services for drug development. The project is expected to create 190 new jobs over the next three years.

Clinical research job opportunities for physicians

Some physicians may choose to leave the bedside and pursue careers in the world of clinical research. What types of industries and organizations would be willing to employ you?

Let's take a look at this list or industries/companies/organizations/employment settings:

• Biotechnology
• Clinical laboratories
• Clinical study/investigative site - includes academia/medical research facility
• Contract research organization (CRO)
• Drug development/Clinical trials consulting
• Government
• Independent CRA (clinical research associate)
• Medical devices
• Pharmaceutical sponsor/biopharmaceutical/biologics
• Trial/Site management organization (TMO/SMO)

So, where do you start? I'd suggest looking at different CROs. There are some small, local CROs that focus on niche therapeutic areas and there are huge CROs that have a global presence. A CRO is a good place to gain experience and to learn about the world of clinical research and the health care industry.

Health Economics, Outcomes and Reimbursement (HEOR) jobs

HEOR stands for Health Economics, Outcomes and Reimbursement. Looking for HEOR jobs? Click here to view HEOR jobs listed on NonClinicalJobs.com.  Many of these HEOR jobs are with biotechnology companies, pharmaceutical companies, medical device companies, contract research organizations (like Covance), health services research (like HealthCore), and others.

If you're considering a job in HEOR, get very familiar with the following topics:

• Health Economics
• Outcomes Research
• Pricing and Reimbursement
• Strategic Pricing
• Market Access
• Global Health
• Formulary Information
• Comparative Effectiveness
• International Markets
• Economic Modeling
• Epidemiology
• Public Health
• Evidence-based Medicine
• Competitive Intelligence
• Quality Improvement
• Pharmacoeconomics

Click here to view HEOR jobs.

Research Physician jobs at Quintiles

Quintiles is the only fully integrated bio and pharmaceutical services provider offering clinical, commercial, consulting and capital solutions. 23,000 employees in 60 countries have helped develop or commercialize all of the top 30 best-selling drugs.

Click here to view "Research Physician" jobs at Quintiles. Not interested in working as a research physician? Then take a look at some of these other job opportunities at Quintiles: 

* Clinical Operations
* Corporate Support
* Data Management/Biostatistics
* Laboratory
* Medical Science Liaisons
* Regulatory & Drug Safety

Contract Research Organizations or CROs

If you're interested in a career in clinical research that's outside of academia, you may want to start with a CRO. There are many Contract Research Organizations (CROs) that work on various types of research projects for pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies (and even for the government). You often find these companies scattered throughout the country (and all over the world). Why would you want to work in a CRO? To gain exposure to a wide variety of therapeutics. Also, working in a CRO can also be a springboard to a career in pharma/biotech.

You may have heard of some of these companies:

• ACORN
• Advanced Biologics
• Averion
• Clinical Research Consulting
• MDCI
  
• MDS Pharma Services
• PPD (Pharmaceutical Product Development, Inc. - not the Tuberculosis skin test)
• RCRI
• Synteract
  
• And many more
  

CROs also also called Clinical Research Organizations (CROs). According to Wikipedia, "Services offered by CROs include: product development, formulation and manufacturing; clinical trial management (preclinical through phase IV); clinical, medical and safety monitoring; preclinical, toxicology, and clinical laboratory services for processing trial samples; data management, biostatistics and medical writing services for preparation of an FDA New Drug Application (NDA), Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA), or Biologics License Application (BLA); regulatory affairs support; and many other complementary services."