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

Molecular Toxicology Internship (Focusing on Mitochondrial toxicity) 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 Investigative Molecular Toxicology group is within the Global Preclinical Safety Sciences department and functions to apply standard and novel models (in vitro and in vivo) and technologies to predict and/or mechanistically understand safety issues with different therapeutic modalities covering all therapeutic indications within Abbvie. The group has highly experienced scientists from multidisciplinary backgrounds (molecular biology, genomics, biochemistry, bioinformatics, veterinary medicine, toxicology, pathology) and is lead by industry leaders in preclinical safety research.

The Molecular Toxicology Intern will gain exposure to a wide range of pre-clinical assays and methods scientists use in predicting and understanding potential safety/toxicity related issues and interpretation of this data considering other relevant information from related groups in preclinical discovery and development sciences. Specifically, the intern will develop a deeper understanding about mitochondrial toxicity and help the team evaluate models/tools to improve current approaches to potentially predict this toxicity in early stages of drug development.

Key responsibilities include:

• Review available scientific literature on current approaches (focusing on invitro assays) for mitochondrial toxicity and data interpretation.
• Work with Molecular toxicology team to curate and summarize externally published data for different assays for reference mito-toxicants.
• Contribute to experimental design and conduct of wet lab experiments to test selected compounds in battery of mitochondrial toxicity assays.
• Summarize/analyze data and present in internal and external (if opportunity) meetings.
• Collaborate with bioinformatics team to compile and visualize the data. If opportunity arises, also contribute for data curation and integration of internal transcriptomics/cell painting data related to mitochondrial toxicants.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in university, pursuing a Bachelor's, Master’s, or PhD in Biological/Biomedical Sciences, Molecular Biology, Pharmacology, Toxicology, Biochemistry or other related field.
• Must be enrolled in university for at least one semester following the internship.
• Must have basic knowledge/experience with molecular biology methods including cell culture.
• Experience in reading and summarizing scientific papers related to biological science.
• Strong problem-solving skills including critical and analytical thinking.
• Must be able to clearly communicate key findings and ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Preferred Qualifications

• Expected graduation date between December 2024 – June 2025.
• Knowledge in toxicology or related fields is a plus.

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 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: No

Salary: $18.2 - $32.8

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.