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Biostatistics Director

companyAlzForum Foundation Inc.
locationSan Diego, CA, USA
PublishedPublished: 6/14/2022
Full Time

UC San Diego - Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study (ADCS)
The Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science (HWSPH) and the Alzheimer’s Disease Cooperative Study (ADCS) within the School of Medicine, Department of Neurosciences at UC San Diego have appointed a search for a joint-appointed associate or full professor rank faculty position in HWSPH Biostatistics and Neurosciences, with emphasis on clinical trials design, methodology, and conduct.
The HWSPH has focal areas of biostatistics and bioinformatics, climate & environmental health, community health services and preventive medicine, epidemiology, health equity and justice, global health, health behavior, health policy, public mental health, and technology and precision health, and offers teaching and student mentoring opportunities in its bachelor's programs in public health, M.P.H., Ph.D. in public health (administered jointly with SDSU), and M.S. and Ph.D. Further, the school has a preventive medicine residency program.
The ADCS is a progressive, multicenter clinical trials consortium created to provide an operational framework for Phase 1-3 pharmacological and behavioral trials and multisite cohort studies. The ADCS is funded by federal and private grants, contracts, and gift support. The ADCS is a unique academic coordinating center at UCSD that collaborates with internal and external stakeholders to advance its mission to discover, develop, and test new drugs and lifestyle-based therapeutics for Alzheimer’s disease and those living with dementia.
The successful candidate will serve as the ADCS director of biostatistics, including leading statistical activities designed to advance its multicenter clinical trials pipeline. In this role, the candidate will focus efforts on leading statistical analyses, developing methodologies, creating statistical analyses plans, and leading the analyses of topline results and primary and final analyses for active ADCS clinical trials. He or she will collaborate with internal and external ADCS partners to develop funding proposals and mature programmatic ideas. The candidate will also serve on the ADCS Data and Sample Sharing Committee.
Requirements Candidates must have a Ph.D., Dr.P.H., or other doctoral degree focused in biostatistics, statistics, or a related field. Candidates must have demonstrated scientific and biostatistical expertise in clinical trials design, methodology, and conduct with peer-reviewed publications in reputable journals appropriate for appointment rank and step. Candidates with established domain expertise in epidemiology, neurobiology, pharmacology, biomarkers, or statistics focused on behavioral neurology/cognitive neuroscience related to Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders are preferred. Candidates with methodological research expertise in biostatistics are preferred.

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