Intern

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The Position

About us

We are Roche, a biotechnology company with an annual revenue of over $70 billion, 100,000+ employees in over 150 countries.

Roche has its head office in Basel, Switzerland. The internship will be based out of this office.

You can learn more about the company here, and also visit our careers website here.

Throughout our 125-year history, Roche has grown into one of the world’s largest biotech companies, as well as a leading provider of in-vitro diagnostics and a global supplier of transformative innovative solutions across major disease areas.

We focus on finding new medicines and diagnostics and establishing data-based insights that evolve the practice of medicine and help patients live longer, better lives.

A 60 second video summary of our organisation can be found here: Roche in 60 seconds

Data Science at Roche: https://careers.roche.com/global/en/meet-our-data-scientists

The Position

You will be part of the Data Sciences and Statistics department located in Basel. As strategic partners in drug development, we apply our drug development and statistical expertise to the design and analysis of clinical development plans, clinical studies, and non-clinical experiments.

Duration between 4 to 6 months depending on the project. Flexible start date.

Possible projects:

• Prediction of clinical Time-to-Event endpoints using longitudinal imaging (e.g. MRI) and digital health technologies in multiple sclerosis.

• Impact of using different estimand strategies to account for new-anti lymphoma treatment in pivotal lymphoma trials.

• Sample size calculation and development of an associated R package for repeated or paired count data with applications to trials in haemophilia.

• Multi-state models in ophthalmology.

You are an enrolled student at the MSc or PhD level in statistics or a related field (or you have completed your studies within the past twelve months) with a strong theoretical foundation, experience in applied statistics, and very good knowledge of programming in R. Successful applicants will demonstrate a keen interest to learn new tools and statistical methods, to experiment, and to complete the internship project within the allocated time. Prior experience in the field of statistics relevant to the project (e.g. dynamic prediction modelling, survival analysis, analysis of count data, or multi-state modelling) is a plus. Good communication skills in English are needed.

For Non-EU candidates, a mandatory letter and enrolment certificate are required.

Who we are

At Roche, more than 100,000 people across 100 countries are pushing back the frontiers of healthcare. Working together, we’ve become one of the world’s leading research-focused healthcare groups. Our success is built on innovation, curiosity and diversity.

Basel is the headquarters of the Roche Group and one of its most important centres of pharmaceutical research. Over 10,700 employees from over 100 countries come together at our Basel/Kaiseraugst site, which is one of Roche`s largest sites. Read more.

Besides extensive development and training opportunities, we offer flexible working options, 18 weeks of maternity leave and 10 weeks of gender independent partnership leave. Our employees also benefit from multiple services on site such as child-care facilities, medical services, restaurants and cafeterias, as well as various employee events.

We believe in the power of diversity and inclusion, and strive to identify and create opportunities that enable all people to bring their unique selves to Roche.