Company Description

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.

Job Description

2024 Biologics Analytical R &D Internship Overview

Envision spending your summer working with energetic colleagues and inspirational leaders, all while gaining world-class experience in one of the most dynamic organizations in the pharmaceutical industry. This is a reality for AbbVie Interns.

The Biologics Analytical R&D department is responsible for all aspects of Chemistry, Manufacturing, and Controls (CMC) analytical development required to move biologic candidates from discovery into and through clinical studies. The Biologics Analytical R&D Intern will develop and optimize a capillary-based western blotting method to provide quick assessments of protein subunit assembly across different biological products. This analytical method will provide valuable data and insight to assist in determining structural assembly, facilitate clone selection during cell line screening, and confirm results in processing biological products during early product development .

Key responsibilities include:

• Assist in developing and optimizing capillary-based western blotting methods to assess protein subunit assembly.
• Perform method robustness and qualification studies.
• Analyze and interpret data.
• Organize and document data in an electronic laboratory notebook.
• Author a guidance document and/or test method with recommended starting points and development steps for new molecules, as well as a report summarizing key findings during method development and optimization.
• Deliver group presentation to share knowledge among the key stakeholders.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in a university, pursuing a Master’s Degree in Chemistry, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Biotechnology, or related scientific field.
• Must be enrolled in a university for at least one semester following the internship.
• Basic pipetting, sample dilution, and buffer preparation techniques.
• Strong written, verbal, and presentation communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Expected graduation date between December 2024 – July 2025.
• General knowledge of drug product development.
• Strong desire to learn about recombinant protein technology, protein analytical chemistry methods, and/or biotherapeutic drug development.
• Hands-on experience with common protein analytical chemistry techniques (electrophoretic methods such as capillary electrophoresis, western blotting, protein concentration determination).
• Ability to work with and learn data analysis software.
• Strong quantitative skills.

Benefits and Amenities

• Competitive pay.
• Relocation support for eligible students.

Equal Employment Opportunity

At AbbVie, we value bringing together individuals from diverse backgrounds to develop new and innovative solutions for patients. As an equal opportunity employer we do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic.

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.​

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.

AbbVie is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion. It is AbbVie’s policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status.

• Travel: Yes, 10% of the Time

Salary: $51500 - $98000

AbbVie’s mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people’s lives across several key therapeutic areas: immunology, oncology, neuroscience, eye care, virology, women’s health and gastroenterology, in addition to products and services across its Allergan Aesthetics portfolio.