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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. Find out more: Our approach to R&D
Computational Scientist
The Computational Sciences department at GSK Stevenage has an opportunity for an Industrial Placement student to join our team. We work in close collaboration with our R&D colleagues to apply computational techniques to discover better and safer medicines for patients.
We have a diverse range of expertise, from machine learning to cheminformatics, bioinformatics and molecular simulation. We use modern machine learning methods to build predictive models for use in drug discovery and generative models to propose novel molecular structures which are predicted to solve problems encountered by our drug design teams. We work with state-of-the-art computational methods and infrastructure, including 3D (3 Dimensional) modelling, quantum mechanics and molecular simulation; we need you to help us make them even better.
- You will be involved in the implementation and evaluation of novel methods which add to our already extensive toolbox.
- For this role you should have a good knowledge of basic statistics and a strong interest in data science/machine learning.
- Some knowledge of chemistry would be advantageous and familiarity with a programming language such as Python is preferable.
- You should be thorough in the way you work and pay attention to detail. You will be able to plan and organise your own work and can work independently as well as in a team environment.
- You should be able to follow projects through to completion. Effective communication and interpersonal skills are essential.
- This is a computational role and will not involve any laboratory work.
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
