Student Assistant, Pharmacometrics

Are you a university student with strong programming skills in R and LaTeX? Do you want to gain hands-on experience supporting drug development in a leading pharmaceutical company?

Ascendis Pharma is looking for a Student Assistant to join our Pharmacometrics department in Hellerup.

Ascendis Pharma is a global biopharmaceutical company committed to making a meaningful difference in patients’ lives. Guided by our core values of Patients, Science, and Passion, we are applying our innovative TransCon® technology platform to fulfill our mission of developing new therapies that demonstrate best-in-class potential to address unmet medical needs.

At our headquarters in Hellerup, Denmark, research facilities in Heidelberg, Germany, and additional offices across Europe and the United States, we are advancing programs in our Endocrinology Rare Disease and Oncology portfolios. We also collaborate with partners on the development of TransCon-based products in other therapeutic areas and markets.

We are seeking a passionate Student Assistant to join our team. As a member of the Ascendis Pharma team, you will play a crucial role in supporting the maintenance and development of our pharmacometrics modelling platform, contributing to analyses used in drug development.

You will be joining the Pharmacometrics Department and be based in Hellerup. You will join a collaborative team of experienced pharmacometricians, a pharmacometrics programmer, and colleagues with recent experience as student helpers. You will gain hands-on experience working on real-world drug development challenges.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Maintaining and developing R and LaTeX templates
• Supporting QC of regulatory documents and calculations

Qualifications and skills

You are currently enrolled and pursuing an academic degree. Ideally studying statistics, mathematics, data science, bioinformatics, biomedicine, pharmacy or similar.

Furthermore, you have:

• Completed at least 2 years of university studies and has at least 2 years remaining, studying

• Understand object-oriented programming and clinical time-series data
• Has strong programming skills in R (e.g., dplyr, tidyverse) and preferably experience with LaTeX (e.g., knitr, hyperref or cleveref)
• Is detail-oriented with a scientific mindset, and enjoys writing efficient and structured code (e.g., functions, packages, ggplot)

It is an advantage if you:

• Have experience with Git
• Have an interest in pharmacometrics and drug development
• Have experience with non-linear fixed effects modeling (NONMEM) and differential equations

Key competencies:

You are a strong team player, analytical, and have a can-do attitude.

You possess an entrepreneurial mindset and can thrive in an informal, open environment where innovation and change are key.  

To succeed in this role, we also expect you to be service-minded and would like to work in a diverse team with many different ongoing tasks

Hours: approx.4-8 hours per week. We want you to be able to balance your studies and work responsibilities and therefore offer flexibility during exam periods.

Office: Tuborg Boulevard 12, 2900 Hellerup (presence in the office is expected)

Apply now.

We evaluate applications when received, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible. Please note that we conduct interviews on a rolling basis and reserve the right to remove the job posting at any time.   

Applications must be submitted in English and will be treated confidentially.

If you would like to learn more, please contact Kristin C. Petri, Sr. Director, Head of Pharmacometrics (mailto: kcp@ascendispharma.com).

You can learn more about Ascendis by visiting our website www.ascendispharma.com

A note to recruiters:

We do not allow external search party solicitation.  Presentation of candidates without written permission from the Ascendis Pharma HR team (specifically from: Talent Acquisition Partner or Human Resources Director) is not allowed.  If this occurs, your ownership of these candidates will not be acknowledged.