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Are you looking to gain valuable real world work experience and help positively impact the lives of others?
A GSK internship offers you the opportunity to kickstart your career – to take on a real role with genuine impact. You’ll take on challenging tasks within live projects or assignments. You’ll also get to learn from others in your team and other parts of GSK whilst developing your skills and gaining valuable experience for wherever the future takes you.
Our approach to R&D focuses on science related to the prevention and treatment of disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on science of the immune system, human genetics and advanced technologies to impact health at scale. Our pipeline currently comprises of more than 60 vaccines and medicines across four core therapeutic areas including oncology, infectious diseases, immunology / respiratory and HIV.
Biopharm Analytical Scientist
This role will be in a department which is dedicated to de-risking and accelerating GSKs portfolio of biopharmaceuticals from Discovery Research into Clinical Manufacture. By applying state of the art analytical technology, the department screens candidate molecules for ‘manufacturability’ and quality prior to transfer to late-stage development & clinical manufacturing.
As part of our continuous improvement of our bioprocess and analytical platform, the successful students will be deployed across the department to evaluate and embed new technologies or data solutions to improve our ways of working and our scientific output.
During the placement, the student will be responsible for organising, performing and reporting project work experiments. The successful candidate will be required to generate high quality results within agreed timelines and be able to participate in the evaluation and interpretation of experimental data. The ability to work flexibly and collaboratively in a team environment is required and is ideally suited to a person who is keen to gain experience in a multi-disciplinary department delivering next generation medicines to patients. The scope of our projects covers a broad range of technology areas and allows for regular interaction with other groups within GSK R&D at Stevenage and in Upper Merion, USA.
We work within a friendly but challenging environment. All opportunities to attend lectures or other learning opportunities are encouraged. The student should be an enthusiastic team player, have good communication skills and a proactive attitude. You should be keen to learn, self-motivated, ready to take on new challenges and have some experience in laboratory science.
What do we offer you?
- Salary of £21,400, plus a bonus
- Access to GSK resources, including employee assistance programmes, private healthcare and well-being programs.
- On-the-job experience, training and development, delivered through a mixture of coaching and mentoring
- A GSK placement which gives you the opportunity to take on a real role with genuine impact
- You will join IPUnite, GSK’s community of over 250 students across all UK sites and business areas, run by the Industrial Placement students committee
- Once you accept your offer you will be invited to join LinkedIn groups and pre-joining webinars, to enable you to connect and network with new students
