About Syapse

Maybe you’ve supported a friend or family member who’s dealing with cancer. Maybe you’ve battled it yourself. At Syapse, our mission is to enable healthcare providers to deliver the best care to every cancer patient through precision medicine and it's our personal connections to this mission that unites us.

Together, we're building a revolutionary product that integrates complex oncology data and shares insights across the cancer care ecosystem including cancer care centers and life science companies developing the next generation of cancer diagnostics and medicines. Join us in our mission to make precision medicine available to every cancer patient who needs it and help us make a positive impact in the lives of people battling cancer, their families and the organizations committed to their care.

About Syapse Epidemiology

Syapse has built a massive and revolutionary data-sharing network integrating clinical and molecular data from various health systems. Syapse Epidemiology is at the forefront of unlocking insights from this database to push forward the practice of precision medicine in cancer. Our epidemiology experts are critical to the design of our real-world data (RWD) studies, including protocol development, creating the analysis plan and overseeing insight generation. Epidemiology plays a critical role in supporting both our health system and life science partners, as well as our product portfolio.

About the role

You will join our Clinical Analytics team to design and develop real-world data insights from the Syapse database. You will work closely with Syapse informaticists and oncologists to design and assess real-world data studies and direct data analysts in study execution, identifying evidence needs and recommending data solutions.

A day in the life of a Syapse Epidemiologist:

• Develop real-world study protocols and analysis plans to supporting customer and Syapse product portfolio.
• Collaborate with external partners (e.g., key opinion leaders, academic institutions, life science partners, payers) as needed on the design and implementation of RWD studies
• Collaborate with internal partners (analytics, informatics, oncology and strategy) to understand RWD analysis needs and priorities, and develop plans to execute RWD projects based on these needs.
• Ask the right scientific questions, ideate and make recommendations on fit-for-purpose data and analytics solutions
• Collaborate with cross-functional team members to design, implement, interpret, report and publish the results of observational research studies that demonstrates the utility of RWD for customer needs
• Develop a comprehensive and deep understanding of the company’s data and foster learning with colleagues using analytical tools and applications to broaden data accessibility and advance our proficiency/efficiency in understanding and using the data appropriately.
• Maintain knowledge of observational data analysis methods and their application
• Stay current with and adopt emergent analytical methodologies, tools and applications to ensure fit-for-purpose and impactful approaches.

Our team prides itself on unlocking insights that were previously inaccessible and driving the use of real-world data and evidence to advance patient care.

What you bring to the table

• You have a PhD or MPH degree with emphasis in epidemiology
• You have experience with data analysis, specifically from observational study designs
• You have experience with epidemiological, registry, EMR oncology data, claims
• You are handy with R, SQL and have technical aptitude
• You have experience summarizing data for presentation
• You are a doer