Job ID291586BRPosition TitleMaster Student / Recent GraduateApply to Job
Job Description
The Oncology Disease Area at the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR) is looking for a Bioinformatics Scientist to help develop cutting-edge cancer therapies to benefit patients.
You will join the Oncology Data Science group which provides computational biology expertise to the department, with a focus on applications of high-throughput genomic and biomarker data for target identification, drug discovery, and clinical development.
Your Responsibilities:
Your tasks will involve, but not be limited to:
• Working with drug discovery teams to apply genomic profiling to target discovery, drug mechanism elucidation, and patient stratification efforts.
• Contributing to translational research efforts by working with teams to contextualize various biological datasets, and by supporting translational genomics, model characterization, and data mining efforts.
• Improve accessibility of this information for the broader community through the development of tools that will allow the data to be explored and visualized interactively.
• Develop innovative approaches to mine novel insights from this resource, potentially including (but not limited to) the areas of target identification, validation and de-risking; drug repurposing; resolving mechanism of action; patient stratification; biomarker identification; and disease progression or response prediction.
• Collaborate with data scientists and domain experts from a number of different disease areas in order to obtain and understand disease-specific datasets.
Duration of this internship: 6 months
Minimum requirements
What you’ll bring to the role:
• Master’s Degree in bioinformatics, biostatistics or computer science
• Fluency in English (oral/written)
• Demonstrated expertise in statistics and statistical learning is required, with practical experience applying machine learning a plus.
• Experience with current analysis methods for next-generation sequencing data is a plus
• Fluency in one or more programming languages with bioinformatics applications (e.g. Python, R)
Knowledge of cancer genomics, clinical and translational science is preferred.
Why consider Novartis?
750 million. That’s how many lives our products touch. And while we’re proud of that fact, in this world of digital and technological transformation, we must also ask ourselves this: how can we continue to improve and extend even more people’s lives?
We believe the answers are found when curious, courageous and collaborative people like you are brought together in an inspiring environment. Where you’re given opportunities to explore the power of digital and data. Where you’re empowered to risk failure by taking smart risks, and where you’re surrounded by people who share your determination to tackle the world’s toughest medical challenges.
We are Novartis. Join us and help us reimagine medicine.DivisionNIBRBusiness UnitOncology NIBRLocationSwitzerlandSiteBaselCompany/Legal EntityNovartis Pharma AGFunctional AreaInterns/Students on Novartis PayrollJob TypeFull TimeEmployment TypeInternshipShift WorkNo
