Summer Internship: Data Science
Job Overview
Company Overview:
If you’ve ever taken a medicine, received a vaccine or had blood drawn for a lab test, you’ve already benefited from the powerful work of 57,000+ exceptional employees across Covance and LabCorp. By supporting leading pharmaceuticals and 600+ biotech companies through our contract research organization (CRO), Covance employees help improve health, improve lives and bring new medicines to market. Along with our parent company, LabCorp, the world’s leading health care diagnostics company, we offer dynamic career opportunities in more than 97 countries.
Global Internship Program
Exciting Opportunity to be part of the LabCorp/Covance 2020 Global Internship Program as an Intern: Data Science in MAdison Wisconsin!
We offer real work assignments that compliment an education in STEM+ Healthcare disciplines, are challenging and recognized to the organization as valuable. In addition, we encourage professional development and career exploration through program workshops, each designed to help students prepare for a thriving career in our industry.
In addition to departmental and professional development work, our interns have the opportunity:
• To showcase their work to senior management, their supervisor and mentors
• Participate in a group philanthropic project as part of our dedication to the community
Capitalize on a dedicated training and development program that will support your scientific and professional career aspirations, and take pride in delivering scientific work that helps save the lives of millions of people around the world.
About Team
In the Bioanalytical Department, we test a variety of biological matrices for the concentration of drug or drug related substances. This is performed utilizing a variety of analytical extraction techniques and LC-MS/MS instrumentation. The deliverable is a concentration profile of the drug within the body over time and our clients use this information to make informed study decisions to move compounds further along in the drug development process. Covance’s work in developing new pharmaceutical solutions has an incredible impact on millions of lives worldwide. Be a part of this life-saving work.
The internship project work will revolve around understanding excel file Macros, data clean-up and reconciliation and training broader BioAnalytical team to interprut.
Education/Qualifications
Working toward a degree in chemistry, biochemistry or life sciences with a focus/interest in informatics, computer information systems, data science, bioinformatics or similar
Experience
- Proficient with Excel
- Experience using macros for data tabling
- Ideal candidate will have experience with Visual Basic for Applications (VBA