TM Data Science Academy Fellow

☞ Novartis

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Update day: 25-04-2024

Location: Basel Basel-Stadt BS

Category: High Technology Mechanical / Technical Electrical / Electronics IT - Software

Industry: Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

Position: Mid-Senior level

Job type: Full-time

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Job Description

20 petabytes of data – this is how much data we generated at Novartis across 100s of clinical trials, pre-clinical studies and drug candidate discovery and development projects! All waiting for you to unlock the next breakthrough in medicine.

Do you want to apply your data science expertise to the life sciences? As a Data Science Academy Program fellow, you will join Novartis’ Translational Medicine Unit to help us to unleash the power of data science for drug discovery and development. During your 24 months journey, you will rotate in three departments of the Translational Medicine Unit and apply your data science skills to challenges in translational medicine.

Who are you? You are a passionate and curious data scientist early in your career, eager to bring creative solutions and a novel perspective to biology’s most daunting challenges on our journey to reimagine medicine. Working alongside dedicated physicians and scientists, our data scientists provide the analytical insights that drive translational success.

You will be:
  • Working as a member of cross-functional teams
  • Communicating regularly with stakeholders and assisting with answering their questions with the data and analytics
  • Utilizing and developing novel machine learning and statistical techniques and apply them to different data modalities
  • Generating insights related to discovery, pre-clinical and clinical projects and inform team on their decision making
  • Presenting project outcomes to technical and non-technical audiences
  • Participating in drug discovery training courses
  • Contributing to research papers and publications
Duration: 24 months, start: 1 June 2022

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:

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

Minimum Requirements
  • MSc or PhD or equivalent experience in quantitative field (computational sciences, physics, mathematics, economics, computational biology, machine learning, data science or related field)
  • 1-2 (or more) years of experience in the field of data science
  • Expert knowledge of programming in R or/and Python
  • Strong grasp of statistics and machine learning
  • Experience with reproducible data science tools and practices
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to translate analytical concepts for diverse audiences and stakeholders (English is our primary language)
799 million. That’s how many lives our products touched in 2019. And while we’re proud of that, 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 empowered to ask new questions, make bolder decisions and take smarter risks.

We are Novartis. Join us and help reimagine medicine.

Division

NIBR

Business Unit

Translational Medicine

Country

Switzerland

Work Location

Basel

Company/Legal Entity

Novartis Pharma AG

Functional Area

Interns/Students on Novartis Payroll

Job Type

Full Time

Employment Type

Internship

Shift Work

No

Early Talent

Yes
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Deadline: 09-06-2024

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