Advisor - Dmpk

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At DICE Therapeutics, a wholly owned subsidiary of Eli Lilly & Company, we design and develop innovative therapies in immunology. Our goal is to help patients with debilitating diseases. We aim to create a future where convenient oral medicines with biologic-like efficacy are available. We are developing oral alternatives to medicines currently limited to injectable forms.

**Responsibilities**:

- Conduct and/or oversee conduct of in vitro permeability, protein binding and other binding studies, metabolic stability, inhibition, phenotyping, transporters, and/or other in vitro ADME studies
- Work with external CROs and vendors to establish, design, perform, and interpret results from in vitro ADME and/or PK studies
- Contribute to optimizing workflow from compound submission to in vitro ADME and PK screening data readout
- Evaluate new technologies, techniques, study designs, and/or equipment to enhance DMPK support of Discovery & Development programs
- Contribute to and influence the DMPK components in the screening funnel and criteria for compound selection and advancement in research programs. Identify, brainstorm, and resolve ADME/PK issues in research programs. Serve as the DMPK project representative in research programs
- Help provide DMPK support to various departments such as Chemistry, Biology/Pharmacology, Toxicology, and Clinical pharmacology
- Responsible for writing and/or reviewing DMPK reports
- Contribute to nonclinical PK/ADME sections in regulatory documents (e.g., IB, IND, etc )

**Basic Requirements**:

- PhD in a relevant scientific field with 0-5+ years of industry experience
- MS in a relevant scientific field with 10+ years of industry experience

**Additional Skills/Preferences**:

- Experience in Drug Discovery/Development DMPK
- Strong publication record in the area of ADME/PK coupled with a high level of scientific curiosity and analytical thinking skills
- Reasonable knowledge of PK and PK/PD studies to support characterization of small molecule therapeutics in Research programs
- Familiarity with quantitative bioanalysis of plasma and other biological matrices is required. This skill supports pharmacokinetic, toxicokinetic, and in vitro ADME analyses of novel small molecule therapeutics
- Familiarity with Excel, Prism, WinNonlin Phoenix (non-compartmental PK analysis) and other relevant ADME/DMPK software

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