Research Intern, Imaging Biomarkers

Job Description

Internship Opportunities in Imaging Biomarker Research 

At our company, are committed to be the premier, research-intensive biopharmaceutical company and are dedicated to providing leading innovations and solutions for today and the future. Our mission is to discover, develop and provide medicines and vaccines that save and improve lives around the world. We strive to transform breakthrough science into novel therapeutics and vaccines and our scientific curiosity drives us to invent solutions to some of the world's most challenging diseases. Many begin in the our research laboratories, where we push the boundaries of science with the hope and expectation that the medicines and vaccines we invent will lead to better health for society for generations to come.

In Singapore, we are located at the Biopolis, the heart of Singapore’s biomedical research community. Here, we are focused on identifying and validating new drug targets, exploring innovative therapeutic modalities and leveraging clinical studies and patient–derived material to understand biomarkers of disease or therapeutic response to increase our understanding of human biology and to drive a therapeutic pipeline to address unmet medical needs. Our state-of-the-art laboratory supports discovery biology and translational medicine and is an integral part of our company’s world-class network for drug and vaccine discovery.

At our research laboratory in Singapore, our Biomarkers & Data Analytics team integrates biology, imaging technology, and data science to discover novel biomarkers in disease biology to accelerate drug discovery and development. In achieving our goal of impacting drug discovery pipeline and research decision making, we work in close multi-disciplinary collaboration with academic researchers and clinicians in Singapore to develop and deploy biomarker assays.

As an intern within our research laboratories, you will gain the opportunity to work with talented and dedicated scientists, learn from leading industry experts, gain exposure and professional experience working for a research-driven enterprise; and use your passion, creativity, knowledge and collaboration skills to find solutions to challenging problems in your day-to-day work.

TITLE:

Research Intern, Imaging Biomarkers

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

You will work closely with an assigned scientific supervisor to perform image analysis and interpretation of biomedical images, and further develop in-house image analysis tools/software. You will leverage artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) and image analysis techniques for digital pathology and spatial biology application.

You can expect the following as an intern.

• Conduct relevant literature studies to formulate methods and hypothesis for the analysis and interpretation of biomedical/histopathological images
• Perform relevant data cleaning, preparation, preprocessing, and visualization for further machine learning based analysis
• Develop or implement relevant machine learning or image analysis methodologies for the identification of imaging biomarkers
• Exploration of big medical datasets and derivation of biological insights from these datasets
• Usage of cloud-based platforms such as AWS or high-performance computing for computational needs
• Participate, communicate, and present research results in internal scientific discussions between cross-functional teams
• Participate in meetings with external stakeholders
• Document relevant experiments and results in electronic notebooks
• Additional tasks, such as exploration of novel computational platforms, could be assigned

PREFERRED SKILLS/EXPERIENCE:

• Enrollment in an Undergraduate/Master’s program leading to a Degree in an Engineering/ Computer Science discipline; other programmes can be considered on individual merit
• Took relevant courses or had hands-on experience on projects related to Image Processing (Computer Vision / Machine Vision / Biomedical Imaging Systems etc.), Signal Processing and/or Machine Learning
• Took courses or have hands-on experience with imaging data, in terms of data visualization, preprocessing and analysis

• Familiar with programming/scripting using MATLAB, Bash, Python etc and common libraries.
• Experience with Linux/Macintosh platform and use of command line terminal is preferred

WHO WE LOOK FOR:

• Strong interest in working in a research-intensive environment
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills
• Quick learner and passion for learning
• Have a positive, proactive, can-do attitude
• Good team player
• Strong problem solving skills
• Availability for 6 months in a full-time capacity preferred

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Employee Status:

Intern/Co-op (Fixed Term)

Relocation:

No relocation

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Travel Requirements:

Flexible Work Arrangements:

Hybrid

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Job Posting End Date:

12/31/2024

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