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Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · 11 hours ago

Dosage Form Design and Development Intern - Gaithersburg, MD

Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States of America

Internship

Onsite

Intern

$39/hr - $41.50/hr

Start in 2026 Spring

Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is seeking undergraduate senior and Master's level students for a 12-week internship role in Gaithersburg, MD. The intern will be responsible for assembling data sets, generating programmatic pipelines, and leveraging data analysis and machine learning techniques to identify relationships in molecule-formulation pairs.

BiotechnologyHealth CareMedicalTherapeutics

Comp. & Benefits

No H1B

Responsibilities

Assemble a comprehensive set of ultrafiltration/diafiltration (UFDF) data using automated UFDF instrumentation and historical data

Generate programmatic pipelines to extract, transform, and load data from automated ultrafiltration/diafiltration instrument output files

Programmatically quantify the relative exchangeability and/or concentratability for molecule-formulation pairs

Leverage modern data analysis and machine learning techniques to identify relationships between

Qualification

PythonMATLABRData analysisWet lab skills

Required

Undergraduate senior and Master's level students majoring in Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Bioengineering, Data Engineering, Data Science, Computer Science or a related discipline

Candidates must have an expected graduation date after August 2026

Intermediate to advanced programming skills in Python are required

US Work Authorization is required at time of application

Ability to report onsite to Gaithersburg, MD 4-5 days per week

Preferred

Proficiency in MATLAB or R is a plus

Familiarity with common programming packages for data cleaning and organization (e.g., numpy, pandas, etc.), analysis (e.g., sklearn), and visualization (e.g., ggplot2, matplotlib, etc.) is preferred

Wet lab skills such as pipetting, tangential flow filtration, or spectrophotometry are a plus