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Welwyn Garden City, England

Internship

Onsite

Intern

Roche is hiring PhD students for a summer internship with its Biostatistics team in Product Development Data Sciences and Analytics. Interns will work on theoretical or applied research relevant to clinical drug development and present their research to the department.

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Responsibilities

Our biostatistics interns will work full-time for 10 weeks (extendable to 12 weeks) at our Roche Welwyn site under the supervision of experienced statisticians and data scientists
Interns will work on theoretical or applied problems with direct relevance to Roche’s ongoing clinical drug development in therapeutic areas such as oncology, immunology, infectious diseases, ophthalmology, or neuroscience
At the end of the internship, students will give a department-wide presentation on their research topic

Qualification

Required

Applicants must currently be registered on a UK PhD programme with a significant methodological focus on statistics or data science, alongside relevant research experience within areas such as biostatistics/epidemiologists, statistics or mathematics
Applicants are required to have successfully passed their initial annual PhD review (typically held at 10-15 months)
must not have completed their PhD viva voce before the application closing date
Candidates must already hold valid authorisation to work in the UK

Preferred

ideally but not necessarily with experience in the health sector

Benefits

A fully equipped gym on-site
A library and information centre
An active sports and social club
A subsidised staff restaurant providing food to cater to every taste throughout the day
An on-site coffee shop and snack machines
Flexible working options will be considered for all roles at Roche UK

Roche is a pharmaceutical and diagnostics company that offers medicines and diagnostic tests for various medical conditions and diseases.

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