Summer 2025 - Undergraduate Cardiovascular Translational Medicine Internship - Bristol Myers Squibb

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Position Summary

The Cardiovascular Translational Medicine Group within the Immunology, Cardiovascular & Neurology (ICN TMDT) at BMS seeks to understand disease pathophysiology and mechanistic understanding of efficacy, markers for patient selection and stratification in clinical trials. The team is highly focused on identifying circulating biomarkers of disease severity to enhance patient stratification and aid the testing of cardiovascular biomarker candidates to support late development.

The Cardiovascular Translational Medicine group seeks a talented and highly motivated undergraduate student interested in a summer internship that offers hands-on translational research experience in a team-oriented, fast paced environment. The student, working closely with a mentor, will be assigned an exciting project related to clinical biomarkers or bioanalytical assays in cardiovascular diseases. During the 10-week internship, the student will be mentored in the development of critical thinking, translational application into the clinic, data analysis, and presentation/verbal communication skills.

Key Responsibilities

• Actively contribute to internship translational project, which is aligned with cardiovascular translational medicine objectives, and participate in BMS student internship requirements.
• Responsibilities may include laboratory work, documentation of experiments, literature/data review, and/or computational analyses from clinical and omics datasets.
• Present internship project to the translational medicine group at the conclusion of the internship.

Qualifications & Experience

• Current undergraduate student majoring in field related to biology (computational biology, bioinformatics, chemistry, biology, bioengineering, or a related field).
• Availability for full-time employment (40 hrs/week) throughout the internship period (early June through mid-August).
• Must have completed 2 years of study towards a bachelor’s degree by June 2025.
• Interpersonal and collaboration skills, including the willingness and ability to foster working relationships with a range of stakeholders.
• Prior experience in wet lab experimentation, proteomic/transcriptomic data analysis, & programming language (R, Python, etc.) is preferred.

The starting compensation for this job is a range from $21.00/hour - $29.00/hour. The starting pay rate takes into account characteristics of the job, such as required skills and the geographic location where work is performed. Final individual compensation is decided commensurate with demonstrated experience and education level.

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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