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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
What is Structural & Biophysical Sciences?
Structural & Biophysical Sciences (SBS) focuses on early stage small molecule and antibody drug discovery using state-of-the-art technologies, such as X-ray crystallography, electron microscopy, hydrogen-deuterium exchange mass spectrometry and surface plasmon resonance as part of therapeutic program teams at GSK.
SBS is a team of about a 20 people, ranging from experienced researchers with decades of drug discovery expertise, to early career scientists yet to complete their PhD/BSc studies. As individuals we enjoy a challenge, but we also love working as a team. The complex questions we are asked to solve often require us to use everyone’s talents, so we work closely together and with colleagues from other departments such as computational chemistry, medicinal chemistry and biology.
We are seeking two enthusiastic students with an aptitude for problem solving, good attention to detail and a keen interest in science to join our group for a year. The roles are primarily laboratory based although computational competence and experience in scientific software such as Excel, Graphpad, R, Coot, Pymol, etc is desirable.
Who are we looking for?
- A keen passion for science
- 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?
- 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
