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US Medical Affairs - Summer Intern

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0 years

Location

Princeton, New Jersey, United States

JobType

full-time

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About the role

We are a dynamic, growing biopharma company with offices in Denmark, Germany and the United States. Today, we’re advancing programs in Endocrinology Rare Disease, Oncology, and Ophthalmology.

Join our dynamic team as a US Medical Affairs- Summer Intern and gain invaluable experience in one of the most critical areas of the industry. We are committed to making a meaningful difference for patients and are seeking enthusiastic interns to contribute to our medical affairs initiatives.

As a US Medical Affairs- Summer Intern, you will play a key role in supporting the development and execution of scientific communication initiatives across the Medical Affairs organization.

The summer internship is a full‑time, 12‑week program (40 hours per week) that offers a broad introduction to the roles and responsibilities within Medical Affairs.

Responsibilities:

·       Ability to assess scientific/clinical/real world evidence data and how this can be used to drive medical strategy

·       Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to understand and effectively communicate complex scientific and clinical data

·       Highly organized with a strong attention to detail, clarity, accuracy and conciseness

·       Learn how clinical development, clinical operations, and medical affairs work together

·       Learn how to work with field medical colleagues to learn the role of medical science liaisons and how their work impacts overall medical and clinical strategy for the program

·       Participating in team meetings and contributing to brainstorming sessions

·       Conduct research and analysis for ongoing projects

·       Provide administrative support as needed

·       Other duties as assigned

Pay rate: $26-38/hr depending on years of education completed.

Requirements

  • Currently enrolled student working on a Bachelor's, Master's, or advanced level degree (PhD, Nursing, PharmD) in life sciences or healthcare-med
  • Interested in pursuing a career in the pharmaceutical industry or clinical research
  • Proficiency in all aspects of Microsoft office
  • Strong collaboration and organizational skills
  • Ability to work independently
  • Excellent communication, presentation, organizational and time management skills
  • Detail-oriented
  • Ability to quickly learn a new scientific discipline or concept

Benefits

  • This is a summer internship position with a duration of 12 weeks.
  • You will be an external W2 contractor reporting to an Ascendis manager, no Ascendis benefits will be provided for this limited duration contract.
  • Opportunity for mentorship and professional development.

About the company

Ascendis Pharma has built a high value pipeline with the aim of changing clinical treatment paradigms. Using our innovative TransCon prodrug technology platform, we continue to identify new opportunities addressing areas of high unmet medical need. TransCon is applicable to all drug classes, and is currently being used to create superior prodrugs of proteins, peptides and small molecules. Depending on choice of TransCon Carrier, either systemic or localized drug exposure is achieved, while dosing frequency is determined by the choice of TransCon Linker. The prodrugs are new chemical entities with new patent life. Product development process is de-risked, as the prodrugs release the active component in its native and unmodified form, maintaining the original drug’s well known mode of action.

Skills

communication skills
time management