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Position Purpose

Mentored by an experienced statistician/statistical programmer, the Student Intern will receive an internship project and will contribute in specific research questions related to statistics in clinical research, pre- or post-development, statistical tools.

Implementation of SAS methods in R and reverse, with detailed comparison and robustness testing. Part of this, the Student Intern may actively participate to any statistical activity for a clinical study.

The Student Intern will beneficiate from BMS working environment and be fully integrated in the Boudry or Uxbridge Global Biometric and Data Science (GBDS) group.

The candidate will become more familiar with the drug development process with regards to study designs and study conduct, as well as regulatory requirements.

Internship should be considered part of the student education and the work contribute partly/fully to their studies.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct literature research
• Develop innovative statistical methods and/or computational tools
• Perform data analysis and simulations to demonstrate utility or research
• Present project work to internal and external stakeholders
• Write summary reports and manuscripts

Outcome of Internship

• Deliver an internship report, in alignment with requirements from their university.
• Develop a Power Point presentation of their work and findings, and a possible guidance document for BMS internal use
• Internship outcomes may lead to publications and further research.

Qualifications & Experience

• Internship is 6 months, as part of the university, and should happen at least during July and August.
• Offered to Master or Ph D student in Statistics (ideally Medical Statistics / Biostatistics) with good understanding of basic methodology of clinical research.
• Good working knowledge of using R and/or SAS and MS Office products (Word, Excel, Power Point).
• Knowledge or willingness to learn version control with github
• Ability to work both collaboratively as part of a team and independently.
• Good verbal communication skills, ability to write clearly and effectively, in English language.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with professional attitude.

Additional Requirements

• Owning, or able to obtain, permit to work in Switzerland, or being able to work in UK
• Must not be employed at the time the internship starts.

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On-site Protocol

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