Covance -
Greenfield,
Indiana
30882BR
Biotechnology Pharmaceutical
Exciting opportunity to be part of our 2012 Summer Internship Program! The following is a description of our internship program:
We provide interns with real work assignments – interns will be doing work that is related to their major, which is challenging and is recognized to the organization as valuable. Each intern will be assigned to a designated trainer/mentor, typically their supervisor, which will be committed to his/her development and training over the course of their term, providing coaching and feedback to Interns.
Interns will have the opportunity to showcase their work through presentations – This venue not only allows them to demonstrate their achievements, but also showcases the internship program to Covance senior management, their supervisor and campus advisors. Interns will be required to present their key learning points during the end of summer presentation.
Covance will require that all interns to participate in a volunteer project/activity - Devoting time to organizations that are important to Covance will allow the interns to see first hand how Covance is dedicated to it's community (HR will assist in determining the activity, a list will be provided to the intern of all opportunities available for that term). Each intern will be required to dedicate 8 working hours toward this requirement.
Supervisor, along with an internship coordinator from human resources, will provide students with an intern evaluation – This is an opportunity for us to provide our interns with feedback and, additionally, a time to gather feedback from the student's on their assignment and overall experience.
We will offer a number of educational and work related seminars to our interns – these seminars are designed to help students prepare as they make the educational to workplace transition.
The intern would be charged with supporting the development of other DTS data resources, including:
-- Generation and curation of disease-specific gene/protein marker lists and the incorporation of biological pathway information (data that can be used by therapeutic area experts for client proposals)
-- Data integration and structuring of oncology information (current Covance cell lines, mutational status, tumor source, etc.)
Guided by his/her supervisor/mentor, the intern will be exposed to a wide variety of computational approaches to extract and integrate data from a variety of public and private sources (biomedical literature, Citeline, etc.). The intern would also help develop computational tools and interfaces to build the BCOE computational infrastructure, which may include tasks requiring some coding (html, javascript, php, perl and/or python) and/or database development (MySQL). Additionally, the intern would have the opportunity to interact with a number of scientists within the Discovery & Trnaslational Services business unit and see how scientific computing and knowledge management can be used to support client requests.
BioPathways (http://www.covance.com/biopathways) is a new web-based tool that maps Covance products and services (assays or antibodies today, and animal models in the near future) onto generally accepted biological pathways. Search criteria include: regulatory process, diseases and protein regulatory process.
Education/Qualifications Current BS or MS college student in the discipline of computer science, bioinformatics, or computational biology
Experience Computer experience necessary. Proficient with Excel. Some coding/programming recommended (html, javascript, php, perl and/or python) and/or database development (MySQL).
Greenfield, IN
Greenfield, Indiana
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