Roche · 14 hours ago
2026 Summer Intern - Computational biology and medicine - Neuroscience
South San Francisco
Internship
Onsite
Intern
$50/hr - $50/hr
Start in 2026 SummerRoche is a company dedicated to innovating healthcare to ensure access for everyone. The internship aims to build a comprehensive single-cell atlas of human iPSC-derived cells to improve decision-making and disease modeling, involving data integration, analysis, and application development.
BiotechnologyHealth CareHealth DiagnosticsOncologyPharmaceuticalPrecision Medicine
Responsibilities
Harmonize and process diverse single-cell RNA-seq (scRNA-seq) datasets from internal and public sources, including multiple protocols and iPSC lines
Evaluate and apply various dimensionality reduction and alignment methods to create a unified embedding space
Identify and characterize transcriptomic diversity in under baseline and stimulated conditions
Build and deploy an interactive application to enable researchers to query embedding spaces and visualize gene expression patterns across different model systems
Engage with cross-functional teams in Roche/Genentech and present your research at internal seminars
Qualification
Required
Must be currently pursuing a PhD (enrolled student)
Required Majors: Bioinformatics, Neuroscience, Computational Biology, Statistics, or a related field
Proficiency in R or Python for large-scale single-cell transcriptomic analysis
Hands-on experience with computational biology workflows and data integration techniques
Familiarity with neurobiology
Preferred
Experience or strong interest in developing interactive data visualization tools (e.g., R Shiny)
Experience working with iPSC-derived cellular models
Knowledge of benchmarking strategies for data integration
Benefits
Paid holiday time off benefits
Company
Roche
Roche is a pharmaceutical and diagnostics company that offers medicines and diagnostic tests for various medical conditions and diseases.
Founded in 1896
10001+ employees
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Funding
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Public CompanyTotal Funding
$7.79BKey Investors
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2021-08-04Post Ipo Equity· $5B
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2020-05-06Post Ipo Equity· $0.5M
Leadership Team
Alan Hippe
Member of the Executive Board - Group CFO
Christine Bakan
Global Head and Group Vice President, Computational Science and Informatics R&D
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