Protein Expression Technologies Intern Job in Union, New Jersey US
Protein Expression Technologies Intern
Merck is a global health care leader with a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines and consumer health products, as well as animal health products. Today, we are building a new kind of healthcare company - one that is ready to help create a healthier future for all of us. Our ability to excel depends on the integrity, knowledge, imagination, skill, diversity and teamwork of people like you. To this end, we strive to create an environment of mutual respect, encouragement and teamwork. As part of our global team, you'll have the opportunity to collaborate with talented and dedicated colleagues while developing and expanding your career. We are seeking a Summer Intern in Bioprocess Group as part of its Merck Research Laboratories. In this role, the candidate will assist in the research activities of high-priority biotechnology drug candidates. Project Title: Automation and high-throughput screening of production cell lines for therapeutic protein manufacturing The intern will participate in developing a spintube system which can automatically perform capping, decapping, sampling and cell passaging. The application of this high-throughput system will be evaluated for cell line passaging and cell culture process development. The intern will be actively involved in the design of the studies. He/ she will gain extensive experience in mammalian cell culture, cell line development, high-throuput screening and process automation. The Future Talent Program features paid internships targeted to start in June 2012 for 9-11 weeks and will include one or more projects. Housing is available for those interns meeting the housing distance guideline.