BioTech Intern
Job Description
Do you have a passion for innovative ideas and groundbreaking discoveries? With over $1 billion invested annually in R&D, at Thermo Fisher Scientific you’ll help solve some of the world’s toughest challenges, from giving cancer patients hope, ensuring safe drinking water and helping law enforcement tackle cases through forensics. We empower our teams to put science into meaningful action and give our R&D colleagues the autonomy, resources and tools they need to take science a step beyond.
Location/Division Specific Information
Thermo Fisher is seeking a highly motivated summer intern for the R&D group. The focus of our group is providing instrumentation, reagents, and protocols for the Life Sciences.
Discover Impactful Work:
As a Biology intern you'll have the opportunity to grow and learn in a culture that empowers your development. We have created an inclusive, global environment that values the power of diverse talent, backgrounds, and experiences to drive speed, productivity, innovation, and growth.
A day in the Life:
Our R&D summer interns typically work on a self-contained research and development project. R&D interns are fully integrated members of our R&D group and participate in all activities such as research presentations and group meetings. They also have access to the excellent resources that are available to employees of a large company like ThermoFisher such as online R&D library, corporate network and a broad array of state-of-the art laboratory equipment. As typical for industrial R&D scientists, time on any typical day will be split between planning experiments, laboratory work, analyzing data, and reviewing and contextualizing results with the broader team.
At the beginning of the internship the intern will receive detailed guidance from their mentor on the background of the project, assays and technology that will be used, use of laboratory equipment and suggestions on how the question at hand might be addressed efficiently. Weekly one-on-one meetings with the project mentor offer opportunity to address general and project-related questions, review progress and plan next steps.
Keys to Success:
Education
• Enrolled in a biology, bioengineering, engineering or other relevant undergraduate program
Experience
Experience planning and conducting experiments to test hypotheses.
0-3 years experience preferred.
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities
• Creative, innovative, and critical thinking
• Analytical nature, responds positively to challenges and a problem solver
• Responsive, results oriented and task driven
• Self-directed, well-organized with ability to manage multiple assignments
• Excellent documentation, planning and organizational skills
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