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    Are you looking to gain valuable real world work experience and help positively impact the lives of others?

    GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to impact the health of 2.5 billion people around the world in the next 10 years.

    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.

    Inspired to help us get ahead together? Apply for a Quantitative Systems Toxicology Modeller Industrial Placement role at GSK today!

    The role

    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.

    The non-clinical safety department is responsible for identifying when pharmaceutical drugs may have unintended side effects when tested in humans. The department generates lots of experimental data to assess the safety profile drugs and understand how behaviours in the laboratory may translate to side effects when the drugs are tested in humans.

    In this role you will work as part of a multidisciplinary team, applying mathematical modelling approaches to contribute to the understanding of safety profiles of drugs in development. This will involve learning to construct mathematical models which allow exploration of potential side effects, using different experimental data types to build the model, and then using the model to predict the safety of drugs in humans.

    You will play a key part in expanding existing quantitative systems toxicology modelling capability, working alongside and learning from experienced quantitative systems toxicologists.

    You will learn about drug discovery and development pipelines in the pharmaceutical industry, be exposed to real safety issues which arise during drug development and help develop and test innovative computational approaches to understand and de-risk these safety concerns.

    You will develop a range of technical and transferrable skills which will be valuable in many different potential future careers.

    Who are we looking for?

    • A keen passion for R&D – tell us your hobbies or interests that are connected to R&D, the commercial world and the biopharma industry
    • Appetite to build strong relationships with key stakeholders
    • Adaptability to change and working under pressure
    • Excellent communication skills that help you influence
    • Strong problem-solving skills driven by curiosity
    • You enjoy learning in action and confidence
    • You are a keen learner
    • The ability to prioritise

    What do we offer you?

    • A salary of £21,000, plus a bonus
    • Access to GSK resources, including employee assistance programmes, private healthcare and well-being programs and pension plan membership
    • On-the-job experience and informal training and development, delivered through a mixture of coaching, mentoring, and training programs
    • A GSK placement which gives you the opportunity to take on a real role with genuine impact
    • You will join a GSK Industrial Placement community of over 250 students across the UK and business areas
    • Access to LinkedIn groups to enable the new Industrial Placement community to network and connect before start date
    • For R&D placements you will also be enrolled in several GSK internal courses as part of company policy such as data integrity, use of internal electronic lab book, laboratory safety rules.
    • Within R&D you will have the opportunity to attend seminars by GSK scientists, which run throughout the year and comprise of a wide range of areas within drug discovery.

    Let’s do this!