Position Title: Associate Principal Scientist (or Associate Director), Biostatistics

Duties & Responsibilities: 1. Manages/supervises a group of statisticians to provide statistical support for clinical pharmacology, experimental medicine and clinical biomarker projects. 2. Conducts collaborative research on statistical methodology, pursues solutions to various technical problems, adapts known methods and develops new ones. 3. Maintains technical skills and increases own knowledge of new methods or areas of applications by reading journals and attending professional society meetings, presents own research at meetings and seminars, communicates with statisticians outside Merck concerning technical problems. 4. Perform statistical analysis of data from and/or statistical research related to clinical pharmacology, experimental medicine and/or clinical biomarker studies.

Position Qualifications:  PhD, MS, or equivalent in statistics/biostatistics with knowledge of biomedical sciences  At least 3 years of experience for PhD (or 6 years for MS) in the design and evaluation of drug/vaccine discovery, non-clinical development or clinical trials (including 2 years of experience in supporting clinical pharmacology studies).  Excellent communication skills are required.  Publications in peer reviewed statistical/medical journals are desirable.  Excellent language skills in both English and Chinese

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Application Address: If interested, please send CV and personal statement to wei.jia3@merck.com, cc to xiaohua.zhang@merck.com.

Contact Email: wei.jia3@merck.com

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