Job Description
Join our R&D team in Munich
Leukocare AG, based in Martinsried, Germany is a biotechnology company specializing in the development of biopharmaceutical formulations. Operating at the interface of drug and product development, Leukocare combines in-depth knowledge of formulation development with bioinformatics and artificial intelligence. Leukocare's innovative best-in-class drug product formulations can be used for a wide range of modalities: Biologics & Biosimilars, Vaccines & Viral Vectors, and Biofunctionalized Devices. Currently, Leukocare employs 50 people.
- Provision of biostatistics services to scientists, including the establishment of tailored design of experiments, data evaluation and visualization (incl. subject matter expert support in project meetings)
- Performance of shelf-life predictions of biopharmaceuticals based on different methodologies, including regression and kinetic modelling
- Ownership for data pipelines from analytical methods, ensuring integrity of data and efficiency of workflows
- Maintenance and extension of R Shiny apps for interactive plotting
- Prioritization and management of the ticket system, coordinating work between biostatistics and lab colleagues
- Data standardization, wrangling, processing and migration
- Provision of scientific advice to support commercial activities, including digital marketing and project acquisition
- Supervision of bachelor and master students
- Support in writing scientific publications and representing Leukocare at conferences
- Establishment of trainings for lab colleagues on standard naming and biostatistics processes
- Demonstrated skills in applied descriptive and inferential statistics (e.g., regression modelling)
- Excellent skills in R programming (or highly transferable skills in Python / Julia / matlab)
- Experience in collaborating / communicating with scientists to analyze experimental data
- Experience with working with biological or analytical small datasets
- Experience in Design of Experiments (DoE) and RSM is strongly desired
- Motivated by working in a self-organized and independent fashion within an international and interdisciplinary environment
- Science-based, diligent and customer-oriented, you and consider flexibility, proactiveness and effective communication as your strengths
- Strong communication skills in English
Exciting and varied tasks await you in a highly professional, collegial, and interdisciplinary team. Independence and initiative are expressly desired and encouraged. We offer flat hierarchies, a flexible working time model, an open corporate culture and a company pension scheme. We value long-term cooperation and offer development prospects within the company. We therefore promote your individual skills through tailored development opportunities such as training, coaching and workshops.
The data science group within Leukocare is an international, agile, self-organized team that provides support to research and development (R&D) scientists and clients. We apply bioinformatics, biostatistics, and machine learning to address a broad variety of challenges that occur during biopharmaceutical drug development.