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Job date: 2014-10-06
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Company : Quintiles Transnational Country : Role : Postdoc | Student
Job date: 2014-10-06
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Company : Quintiles Transnational Country : Role : Postdoc | Student
Job Description:
Quintiles pioneered the idea of helping pharma companies conduct objective clinical trials to establish not only whether a drug is effective, but who can take it safely. Our customers have relied on us to design and conduct rigorous clinical research for decades, from small studies to multinational mega-trials. However, we continue to develop new ways of interpreting and evaluating data that allow us to create more effective trials and determine outcomes faster. If that is your passion, we have a place for you. We have a rewarding opportunity for an internship focusing on Bioinformatics within Expression Analysis, a Quintiles company! This is a paid, graduate level (Master's or PhD) internship. PURPOSE To engage active students with a practical work experience within an industry setting comprising individuals of diverse talents across computer science, statistics and genetics. Engage in assisting completion of active bioinformatics projects. Gain exposure to client-facing interactions and effective communication of services provided by the group. Build existing and new profesional skills by learning through on the job experience and active mentoring relationships. Responsibilities
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Quintiles pioneered the idea of helping pharma companies conduct objective clinical trials to establish not only whether a drug is effective, but who can take it safely. Our customers have relied on us to design and conduct rigorous clinical research for decades, from small studies to multinational mega-trials. However, we continue to develop new ways of interpreting and evaluating data that allow us to create more effective trials and determine outcomes faster. If that is your passion, we have a place for you. We have a rewarding opportunity for an internship focusing on Bioinformatics within Expression Analysis, a Quintiles company! This is a paid, graduate level (Master's or PhD) internship. PURPOSE To engage active students with a practical work experience within an industry setting comprising individuals of diverse talents across computer science, statistics and genetics. Engage in assisting completion of active bioinformatics projects. Gain exposure to client-facing interactions and effective communication of services provided by the group. Build existing and new profesional skills by learning through on the job experience and active mentoring relationships. Responsibilities
- Work on client-facing presentations and documentations explaining technological service offerings.
- Develop programming documentation including plans and specifications, as appropriate.
- Work with applications software development in extending our software testing.
- Address analytical requests from team members
- Develop custom tools to address internal client requests
- Assist with data delivery and troubleshooting.
- Foundational knowledge in Linux/UNIX-based systems
- Knowledge of at least one of the following computing languages: C/C++, Perl/Python, Shell scripting within Bash environment or similar general purpose programming languages.
- Statistical programming: SAS, R, Splus, Matlab is preferred.
- Should have at least 33% of dissertation research requiring computational work
- Exposure to microarray/sequencing technologies or other high-volume datasets.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with coworkers, managers and clients.
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Skills :
- Bioinformatics
- Database design
- Lunix/Unix
- Modeling
- Next Generation Sequencing
- Programing in C++
- Programing in Python
- Programing Skills
- Programming in Java
- Programming in Matlab
- Programming in R
- Statistics
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