Dept. Social Pharmacy and Pharmacoepidemiology, Groningen Institute for
Drug Studies, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, The
Netherlands.
Description
The working group Social Pharmacy and Pharmacoepidemiology performs
fundamental and applied research on epidemiological and medical literature
databases in order to determine effectiveness/side-effects profiles of
drugs. A post-doc is asked for to participate in the program to develop
computer text analysis and pattern recognition techniques for the
extraction of (side)effect profiles of drugs from pharmaceutical and
medical electronic literature databases: (1) as a source of information
for finding new leads in innovative drug research; and (2) as a new way of
determining benefit-risk profiles of drugs. A PhD-student is assigned to
this program as well.
Requirements
A computer linguist or computer scientist, who has completed a PhD-project
with expertise in corpus linguistics, mathematical linguistics or
intelligent information retrieval; interest in pharmaceutical sciences and
innovative drug research; expertise in data mining or pattern recognition
methods is desired.
Remarks
The salary is on the basis of ministry guidelines at the minimum Dfl.
3844,- and at the maximum Dfl. f. 7.125,- (schaal 10/11 RWOO) bruto pro
month, dependent on education and experience. The working group Social
Pharmacy and Pharmacoepidemiology is part of the Dutch School
'Groningen-Utrecht Institute for Drug Exploration' (GUIDE), acknowledged
by the Royal Dutch Academy of the Sciences. The appointment is for two
years. Information on this project: Prof.dr. R. Vos, email:
r.vos@farm.rug.nl; tel. +31.50.3633331/3633272; fax. +31.50.3633311.
Reactions a.s.a.p., and preferably before July 1st, 1997.
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Marc Weeber http://www.farm.rug.nl/marc/home.html
Groningen University Centre for Pharmacy
marc@farm.rug.nl Social Pharmacy and Pharmacoepidemiology
tel: +31 50 3637571 ___ A. Deusinglaan 2
fax: +31 50 3633311 | 9713 AW Groningen, The Netherlands
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