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Job Title: Biostatistician Intern

Location: Raleigh, NC

Job Type: Internship (Hybrid - Onsite 2 times a week)

Educational Standing: Senior, Maters, Doctorate

Dates: May 19 - August 1st 2025

Must be able to attend first day in person

UCB is seeking a science-driven, upper-level undergraduate or graduate student to intern with the Biometrics and Quantitative Sciences (BQS) team. The intern will be part of the Safety Statistics group within the BQS 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.

Responsibilities may include

· 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

Learning objectives include

· 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

· Gaining scientific and business acumen through exposure to various functions with UCB’s matrix organization

UCB Career Path

Depending on the participant's level of education and any prior experience, the typical career path would be as a Biostatistician followed by a Senior Biostatistician. An entry-level permanent Biostatistician position at UCB would require at least a master’s degree, preferably a PhD, with at least one year of experience. An entry-level Programmer position at UCB would require an undergraduate or master’s degree.

Qualifications

Upper-level undergraduate or 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

UCB is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. No employee or applicant for employment will be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, disability, military or veteran status, genetic information, gender identity, transgender status, marital status, or any other classification protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. This policy of Equal Employment Opportunity applies to all policies and programs relating to recruitment and hiring, promotion, compensation, benefits, discipline, termination, and all other terms and conditions of employment. Any applicant or employee who believes they have been discriminated against by the Company or anyone acting on behalf of the Company must report any concerns to his/her Human Resources Business Partner, Legal, or Compliance immediately. The Company will not retaliate against any individual because he/she made a good faith report of discrimination.

Job Types: Full-time, Internship

Pay: $23.00 - 38.00 per hour

Experience level:

• 2 years

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Work Location: Hybrid

Job Tags

Hourly pay, Permanent employment, Full time, Internship, Local area, Immediate start, Shift work, Day shift, Monday to Friday,

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