Internship Pharmaceutical Development

Job Description Summary

In pharmaceutical development, we aim to develop and implement innovative pharmaceutical technologies (solid oral, topical and parenteral dosage forms containing small molecules NCEs) to make a difference to patients around the world by continuous development of new exciting commercial products.

 

Job Description

Major accountabilities:

As a Master Student or a training placement for 6 months within this innovative environment you will contribute to elaborate pharmaceutical processing technologies and to develop pharmaceutical formulation know-how for novel technologies. Your work will be focused around the research, development and characterization of dosage forms and their components, and how this translates to the production of innovative pharmaceuticals.

There are a range of projects available which may cover any of the following areas:

• Development of novel dosage form technologies

• Feasibility trials to understand the impact of new technologies

• Characterization of material properties and linking to process performance

• Process development activities and assess process performance

• Build related models interconnecting material properties and process performance

• Compare model prediction with process performance

• Summarize and present results in internal meetings

Essential Requirements:

• Recent graduate (B.Sc./M.Sc.) or Master Student in e.g. Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Pharmaziepraktikant/in

• Special interest in formulation, pharmaceutical technology/processing and/or physicochemical properties / pharmaceutical material sciences (e.g. powder characterization)

• Ability to work in multidisciplinary teams in an international environment

• Organizational, and scientific skills including curiosity and planning and execution of lab work

• strong communication and presentation skills

• Proficiency in English, German skills are advantageous

• Familiarity with Microsoft Office, additional packages e.g. Minitab would be advantageous

Desirable Requirements :

• German skills are advantageous

• Knowledge in additional software packages for data visualization, statistics (e.g. Minitab), or programming (e.g. Python)

Why Novartis? Our purpose is to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives and our vision is to become the most valued and trusted medicines company in the world. How can we achieve this? With our people. It is our associates that drive us each day to reach our ambitions. Be a part of this mission and join us! Learn more here: https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion / EEO:

Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.

Accessibility and accommodation:

Novartis is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to all individuals. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the recruitment process, or in order to receive more detailed information about the essential functions of a position, please send an e-mail to inclusion.switzerland@novartis.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information. Please include the job requisition number in your message.

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