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Position Summary

The Immunology, Cardiovascular, and Neuroscience Translational Medicine Disease Team is seeking an intern to join our laboratory team. The group utilizes a diverse range of experimental methods, including cell culture, immune based assays, flow cytometry, qPCR, microscopy and many more, to better understand the mechanism of action of our BMS molecules in late-stage clinical development. As an intern, you will gain hands on experience in a wet lab focused on translational research employed to develop new medicines.

Key Responsibilities

• Assisting with the execution of functional cell-based assays interrogating a drug's mechanism of action, comparing it to competitor molecules and evaluating potential biomarkers
• Projects generally focus on immune cell populations in diseases of interest including monocytes, macrophages and B cells
• Analysis and visualization of data generated in the lab, using common software packages such as Flowjo, Graphpad Prism; or Spotfire for higher dimensional data
• Presenting results to team members across different functions
• Accurate and timely record keeping of experiments and procedures
• Other tasks may be required to support the team as a whole

Qualifications & Experience

• Current undergraduates with majors in biological/biomedical sciences or related field
• Strong enthusiasm and interest in science with a desire to learn
• Lab skills (e.g. pipetting, cell culture, measuring, calculating dilutions, molecular biology) from college course science labs or research labs
• Willingness to work with primary human derived samples and potentially biohazardous/infections material
• Ability to work in a highly matrixed team
• Excellent fundamental skills such as communications, analytical and critical thinking
• Excellent organization and record keeping skills

If you come across a role that intrigues you but doesn’t perfectly line up with your resume, we encourage you to apply anyway. You could be one step away from work that will transform your life and career.

Uniquely Interesting Work, Life-changing Careers
With a single vision as inspiring as “Transforming patients’ lives through science™ ”, every BMS employee plays an integral role in work that goes far beyond ordinary. Each of us is empowered to apply our individual talents and unique perspectives in an inclusive culture, promoting diversity in clinical trials, while our shared values of passion, innovation, urgency, accountability, inclusion and integrity bring out the highest potential of each of our colleagues.

On-site Protocol

BMS has a diverse occupancy structure that determines where an employee is required to conduct their work. This structure includes site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design jobs. The occupancy type that you are assigned is determined by the nature and responsibilities of your role:

Site-essential roles require 100% of shifts onsite at your assigned facility. Site-by-design roles may be eligible for a hybrid work model with at least 50% onsite at your assigned facility. For these roles, onsite presence is considered an essential job function and is critical to collaboration, innovation, productivity, and a positive Company culture. For field-based and remote-by-design roles the ability to physically travel to visit customers, patients or business partners and to attend meetings on behalf of BMS as directed is an essential job function.

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