Leaders in Pharmaceutical Business Intelligence (LPBI) Group

Synthetic Biology Software for Drug Design in Glycobiology Internship

Employer Partner: Leaders in Pharmaceutical Business Intelligence Group (LPBI)

Career(s)

Molecular Biology, Structural Biology, Systems Biology, Synthetic Biology, Pharmaceutical Sciences

Overview

LPBI Internships offer the following:

• Affiliation with and mentorship by esteemed scientists and research graduate students.
• Skills development in drug discovery and drug design
• References/letter of recommendation
• Description of accomplishments and goals achieved during the internship
• Opportunity to contribute to publications
• Exploration of opportunities in life sciences in the US
• Opportunity to collaborate with professionals from various fields such as medicine and Natural Language Processing as well as with other interns.

Internship Description

Synthetic biology software for drug design in glycobiology: galectins for our joint venture with SBH Sciences, Inc. with Dr. Raphael Nir, Ph.D., President & CSO. 

• Develop IP on targeting 12 Galectins as therapeutics using Synthetic Biology Software in Drug Discovery
• Software Review and Testing
• Training will be offered
• Post-internship on-site opportunity for wet lab synthesizing and testing molecules at SBH Sciences, Inc. in Natick, MA.

Types of Students Desired/Requirements

Masters Student studying Biology/Chemistry (statistics, probability coursework preferred) Bioengineering/Bioinformatics/ Biochemistry/Genomics/Pharmacy/ Pre-Med/Computer Science Majors with Life Science Interest. Co-op Students (unpaid) are welcomed

Structure/Schedule

• Remote
• Cohort
• Academic school year internships
• Zoom 1 times per week with supervisor,
• Zoom multiple times during internship with other students

Internship Project Work

• Detailed workflow provided at a later date

Skills Used/Gained

• Molecular Drug Design
• Combinatorics in Statistics
• Application Development (for coders)
• Scientific Report Writing

Verifiable Certificates Offered

• Synthetic Biology Software Application in Drug Discovery