Internship - Perfusion development - USP Platform Improvement via medium optimization (m/f/d)

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United As One for Patients, our purpose in Healthcare is to help create, improve and prolong lives. We develop medicines, intelligent devices and innovative technologies in therapeutic areas such as Oncology, Neurology and Fertility. Our teams work together across 6 continents with passion and relentless curiosity in order to help patients at every stage of life. Joining our Healthcare team is becoming part of a diverse, inclusive and flexible working culture, presenting great opportunities for personal development and career advancement across the globe.

Location: Corsier-sur-Vevey
Duration: 6 months
Start date: August/September 2025

Role level: Internship

Recombinant therapeutic proteins such as monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) are an important class of medicines serving patients most in need of novel therapies. The dominating production system for mAbs is a recombinant expression in mammalian cellular systems. The cells are then cultivated in bioreactor and the recombinant protein produced is purified. Upstream process (USP) is one of the critical steps in the production of biological medical products. As a team dedicated to USP innovation, we support the USP activities by finding ways to identify better cell culture conditions, using medium optimization and innovative technology, to deliver robust perfusion processes. We offer an internship opportunity for a motivated individual to join our Technology Innovation team.

Your role:

• As an intern, you will be responsible for leading the optimization of USP perfusion platform.
• Practically, you will perform literature review for potential improvements of production media.
• You will test proposed improvements as well as perform media screening on various cell lines in perfusion microbioreactor (microfluidics-based system) to assess the productivity and quality stability. Moreover, you will continue the efforts to improve medium powder stability.
• Data analysis of the experimental results will be performed with the programming language of your choice.
• You will work closely with our team of experienced researchers to design and execute experiments, analyze data, and present findings to the wider team.
• We are looking for candidates with a strong interest in cell culture process, metabolism and biotechnologies, excellent communication and organizational skills, and a passion for learning.

Your profil:

• Master/Engineer student in biology, cellular biology, biotechnology or related subject
• Currently undertaking studies in a relevant field
• Basic/Beginner Programming Level: R or Python (is a plus)
• Language: French and/or English

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