Internship: Process improvement drug product, Belgium - 2024

Job description

Site Name: Belgium-Rixensart
Posted Date: Apr 22 2024
Help us get ahead of disease together with our Internship Programme

Education required: You are regularly enrolled in a Bachelor/Master in: Chemistry, Biology, Biochemistry, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Engineering or related scientific field in an Educational Establishment located in Europe

Language requirement: Good level of English (or French), spoken and written as well as conversational

Expected start date: September/October 2024

Duration: minimum 6 months

Work arrangements: mostly on sites (Rixensart & Wavre, Belgium)

Requisite : The internship must be mandatory & done in the framework of the curriculum, for which an agreement must be signed between GSK, the student and the Educational Establishment

Remuneration: according to Belgian legal requirements, the internship will not be paid. However, some expenses will be reimbursed
Application deadline: We will close this vacancy when we have enough applications, so please apply as soon as you can to be considered Looking to gain valuable real world work experience and help positively impact the health of billions of people? Apply for a GSK Internship today!
A GSK internship offers you the opportunity to kickstart your career - to take on a real role with genuine impact! You'll take on challenging, serious work on live projects or assignments. You'll also get to learn from us, develop your skills and gain valuable experience for wherever the future takes you.

What will you do?

The filling of drug products and vaccines is carried out in filling isolators that have been sterilized. A common method consists in vaporized hydrogen peroxide (VHP) in the isolator due to its low cycle times and nontoxic residuals. However, VHP can leave residual levels of hydrogen peroxide behind (
VHP exposition is reproduced at lab scale by directly spiking liquid H2O2 in the final container (syringe or vial). A recent publication suggests the need to improve the current practice by taking into account multiple possible sources of uptake along filling lines.

Goal of the internship will be to further investigate on those additional VHP uptake sources and improve the current laboratory practice.

Experimental activities will occur both in GSK Wavre and GSK Rixensart.

What are we looking for?

A person interested by the Pharma world, more particularly on the late development and production stages of vaccines.

A dynamic person open-minded but critical thinker, who is both ready to contribute with her/his academic knowledge, and eager to discover the world of R&D within a team focused on the development and improvement of filling processes.

After being familiarized with the equipment and with GSK security rules, the student will be required to move and transit between the Wavre and Rixensart sites to perform experimentation and analytics.

Although under supervision, the successful candidate will demonstrate relative autonomy, a sense of responsibility and the ability to report progresses and potential problem proactively. As a representative of the global process engineering group associated with the R&D, the student will be involved in discussion and will be required to communicate with other departments.

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Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose - to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together - so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns - as an organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it's also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves - feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.

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