Intern, Discovery Data Science (Data science for antibody engineering)

At Genmab, we are dedicated to building extra[not]ordinary® futures, together, by developing antibody products and groundbreaking, knock-your-socks-off KYSO antibody medicines® that change lives and the future of cancer treatment and serious diseases. We strive to create, champion and maintain a global workplace where individuals’ unique contributions are valued and drive innovative solutions to meet the needs of our patients, care partners, families and employees.

Our people are compassionate, candid, and purposeful, and our business is innovative and rooted in science. We believe that being proudly authentic and determined to be our best is essential to fulfilling our purpose. Yes, our work is incredibly serious and impactful, but we have big ambitions, bring a ton of care to pursuing them, and have a lot of fun while doing so.

Does this inspire you and feel like a fit? Then we would love to have you join us!

Role 
 
We are excited to share that Genmab has an open internship position based in the Discovery Data Science department based in Utrecht. The internship will focus on exploring machine learning methods on large scale data for the design and discovery of antibody targets. 
 
You will work in a multidisciplinary, international team of experienced scientists with deep knowledge of antibody development and machine learning, with the goal of bringing new, groundbreaking antibody therapeutics to the clinic. We leverage modern protein characterization assays, advanced data analysis methods, and state-of-the-art machine learning techniques to help improve our therapeutics. Dry- and wet-lab researchers collaborate towards defining project questions, discussing methodology, designing experiments, assessing results, modelling data, and validating predictions. Projects involve computational sequence- and, structure-based protein and antibody engineering. 
 
Genmab places a high value on new, transformational data-science approaches to enhance our drug discovery and development efforts. As an intern in the Discovery Data Science department, you will make an impact on the development of ground-breaking new medicines to serve cancer patients with unmet medical needs. In addition, as a fully integrated biotech company, Genmab will give you the chance to experience drug development from discovery to translation into the clinic. 

Responsibilities 

• You work with large volumes of data, for example antibody-antigen affinity data, protein structures, protein sequences, and their meta data 

• You explore patterns in the data, visualizing complex relationships in an intuitive manner 

• You have good collaboration and communications skills as you work in a multidisciplinary team, exchanging ideas with colleagues, together developing new approaches to analyze the data 

• You contribute to shared code bases, writing clean, robust, clearly annotated, and easily readable code 

• Depending on the needs of the project you will train and/or apply machine-learning models for antibody design and discovery or experiment with methods, parameters, and datasets. 

Requirements 

• You are actively enrolled in a NL universities' Master’s program in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Computer Science, or a related field. 

• You are willing to perform an internship of 6 months or more. 

• You have experience in coding in Python (pandas, numpy, seaborn, scikit-learn, etc.) 

• You have a basic understanding of statistics. 

• You are an enthusiastic, creative, goal orientated, pro-active thinker with a strong ability to work independently. 

• You have good communication skills, and a good command of English, written and spoken. 

• Optional: 

• You are familiar with version control system such as Git.  

• Knowledge of cloud computing environments such as Databricks or AWS. 

• Domain knowledge regarding proteins, and antibodies and antibody binding in particular. 
   

About You

• You are genuinely passionate about our purpose

• You bring precision and excellence to all that you do

• You believe in our rooted-in-science approach to problem-solving

• You are a generous collaborator who can work in teams with a broad spectrum of backgrounds

• You take pride in enabling the best work of others on the team

• You can grapple with the unknown and be innovative

• You have experience working in a fast-growing, dynamic company (or a strong desire to)

• You work hard and are not afraid to have a little fun while you do so!

Locations

Genmab maximizes the efficiency of an agile working environment, when possible, for the betterment of employee work-life balance. Our offices are crafted as open, community-based spaces that work to connect employees while being immersed in our powerful laboratories. Whether you’re in one of our office spaces or working remotely, we thrive on connecting with each other to innovate.

About Genmab

Genmab is an international biotechnology company with a core purpose to improve the lives of patients through innovative and differentiated antibody therapeutics. For 25 years, its hard-working, innovative and collaborative team has invented next-generation antibody technology platforms and harnessed translational, quantitative and data sciences, resulting in a proprietary pipeline including bispecific T-cell engagers, antibody-drug conjugates, next-generation immune checkpoint modulators and effector function-enhanced antibodies. By 2030, Genmab’s vision is to transform the lives of people with cancer and other serious diseases with Knock-Your-Socks-Off (KYSO®) antibody medicines.

Established in 1999, Genmab is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark with international presence across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. For more information, please visit Genmab.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X.

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