Novartis to Academia Hackathon Event (apply by June 1)

[Dana Bresee Keeth]

Forwarded notice; see details below and attached about the opportunity to participate in this two-week program.



[It may be necessary for postdocs to either use vacation time or reduce effort on the MIT appointment in order to participate.

Speak with your faculty supervisor and local administrative contact<http://postdocs.mit.edu/postdocs-and-office-vpr/key-administrative-contacts-postdocs> about the schedule and any considerations related to sponsored funding or fellowship terms.]


[imap://lbouro@imap.exchange.mit.edu:993/fetch%3EUID%3E/INBOX/A-FUNDING-GRANTS/A-FUND-COMPANIES-HEALTHCARE%3E463?part=1.1.2&filename=image002.png]






Novartis Quantitative Sciences
Academia-to-Industry Hackathon
August 13 - 24, 2018

Have you always wanted to work on a real-world problem in pharmaceutical R&D? Join us!!
The Novartis Quantitative Science Academia-to-Industry Hackathon is an intense two-week program designed to provide graduate students and postdocs with training and hands-on experience working on real-world problems in pharmaceutical R&D. The program is targeted at graduate students and postdocs in the quantitative sciences (e.g. Bioinformatics, Engineering, Mathematics, Pharmacometrics, Physics, Statistics, Systems Pharmacology). The Hackathon consists of a three-day tutorial on fundamental training in Translational Quantitative Sciences including basic pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics (PKPD) and population PKPD using the open-source R-based nonlinear mixed effect modeling software nlmixr<https://github.com/nlmixrdevelopment/nlmixr>.
Following the tutorial, students will work in project teams on real-world, open-ended problems in collaboration with Novartis scientists working across the R&D spectrum.
The researchers will present their final results at the "Quantitative Sciences in Drug Development Conference" sponsored by Novartis, which will be held on the last day of the hackathon, Friday, August 24th 2018.
Event Dates
August, 13th -24th 2018
Time
9am - 5pm EST
Eligibility
Applicants must be current graduate students or postdocs.
Logistics
The program will take place at the Novartis Campus, in Cambridge, MA.
Applications
The following materials will be accepted at pmx.group at novartis.com<mailto:pmx.group at novartis.com> until Friday June 1st 2018.

  *   One page statement of reason for participation, career goals, and relevant experience
  *   Resume or CV
Optional:

  *   Letter of support from advisor, director of graduate studies, or department chair
Participants are encouraged to apply early as numbers are limited. Confirmation of participation will be sent by Friday, June 15th 2018.
Thank you for taking interest in this Novartis event. We look forward to seeing you there!











[Title: Novartis]









-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/mit-postdocs/attachments/20180523/bb3344db/attachment-0001.html
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image002.png
Type: image/png
Size: 154578 bytes
Desc: image002.png
Url : http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/mit-postdocs/attachments/20180523/bb3344db/attachment-0002.png
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image004.png
Type: image/png
Size: 5926 bytes
Desc: image004.png
Url : http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/mit-postdocs/attachments/20180523/bb3344db/attachment-0003.png
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: Novartis Academia Conference-Quantitative Sciences in Drug	Development.pdf
Type: application/pdf
Size: 137534 bytes
Desc: Novartis Academia Conference-Quantitative Sciences in
	Drug Development.pdf
Url : http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/mit-postdocs/attachments/20180523/bb3344db/attachment-0001.pdf