UCB Internship - Biostatistician Intern

UCB Internship Opportunity

UCB is seeking a science-driven, graduate student to intern with the Biometrics and Quantitative Sciences (BQS) team. The intern will be part of the Safety Statistics group within the Biometrics and Data Sciences team. The student will work with other statisticians, statistical programmers, and/or data scientists to create tools to deploy statistical methods to evaluate the safety and benefit-risk of treatments.

Your Responsibilities

• Pre-processing of clinical data to understand the structure and content of the data
• Review papers to understand statistical methodology and its application to evaluate the safety or benefit-risk of a treatment
• Generate or review graphics or data summaries from clinical studies
• Contribution to discussions in team meetings
• Contribute to updates to statistical or visualization applications

Learning Objectives

• Understand clinical safety signal detection practices and the types of data analyses used for clinical signal detection
• Understand the different approaches to assessing benefit-risk of a treatment and the ways of summarizing data to be understood by non-statistical team members
• Identify approaches for summarizing safety and/or benefit-risk information graphically
• Building a foundation of knowledge clinical development phases and the roles of a statistician throughout the development life cycle

Education Level

• Graduate student studying: statistics or biostatistics
• Programming experience in: R
• Programming experience in: SAS is preferred but not required
• Comfortable working: independently and as part of a team
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Detail-oriented: thorough, and methodical
• General knowledge of: scientific research

Specific Skills

• ☒Excel
• ☒PowerPoint
• ☒Word
• ☒Outlook
• ☒Communication and writing skills
• ☒Presentation Skills
• ☒Statistical Software fluency: R, fluency in SAS and Python are also helpful but not required

Job Types

Contract, Temporary

Pay

$31.00 - $39.00 per hour

Work Location

Hybrid remote in Morrisville, NC 27560