The quality of human life is highly dependent on the most effective and safe medicines. Humankind has always been striving to develop the most effective & safe medicines. Drug discovery and development is a long, expensive, and complex process, which requires expert analysis of well-researched, properly organized & accurate information. Clinical trial data plays a pivotal role in the research and development of any drug. This resulted in the development of various research methodologies and techniques. Statistical analysis & presentation of research data is highly required for analysis of any drug development.

Statistical Analysis System (SAS) is the world leader in the statistical analysis of Clinical Data. It is a software system for data analysis and reports writing. SAS is a group of computer programs that work together to store data values and retrieve them, modify data, compute simple and complex statistical analyses, and create reports. It is the most demanded platform by the industry and the only accepted report-generating software by FDA.

Due to rapid growth in clinical trials, demand for the Clinical SAS programmers is increasing rapidly with global pharmaceutical companies and CROs are increasing outsourcing from India. Current size of the clinical trials market is US$49.8 billion which will grow to US$78.3 billion by 2030.

It is the right time to enter in the field of Clinical SAS. This career is not only the backbone of the Pharmaceutical industry but highly rewarding professionally for young professionals. If we talk about the entry level salary packages, in India the average starting salary package of a SAS Programmer is around INR 4.00 Lakh/Annum, which may grow at 15 – 20% per annum, whereas for the same role average salary in the USA it is $63,136/Annum.

This career option is available for people with a wide range of qualifications. Anyone who comes from a Medical, Pharmaceutical, Biology, Biotechnology, Mathematics, Statistics, or Engineering/Computing (Analytics) background can opt for this career.

This is a highly sophisticated career and requires a high level of theoretical and practical knowledge, so very intense and detailed training is highly required. Selection of right institute is very important. Institute should be able to provide you with the hands on training on SAS and Advanced Clinical SAS / CDISC, sound theoretical training and real time internship. It is important that you are trained on the real world data Institute must have senior experience industry trainers. Program should be certified and accredited by the government and international accreditation agencies.

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