Summer 2024 - Discovery Chemistry Internship - San Diego, CA

Bristol Myers Squibb

Nov 1, 2023

Applications are closed

Internship
Full-time
Summer Internship
Science
San Diego

Requirements

Completed their sophomore or Junior year in college but are not graduating before the summer of 2024.
Will be a chemistry, chemical biology or chemical engineering major.
Will have taken two semesters of organic chemistry and lab courses.
Preference for candidates with prior laboratory research experience with academics or industry.

Responsibilities

Learning the principles and procedures to work safely in a chemistry lab.
Bench chemistry targeting the application of chemistry methodology and multi-step organic synthetic sequences to synthesize a desired target molecule.
The isolation and purification of reaction products.
The characterization of reaction products using instrumentation such as LC/MS, NMR, and other biophysical characterization methods.
The proper procedure for keeping an electronic lab notebook.
Learning how to search the chemical literature.

Bristol Myers Squibb

Manufacturing & Electronics

Industry

10,001+

Employees

Mission & Purpose

At Bristol Myers Squibb, we work every day to transform patients’ lives through science. That work inspires some of the most interesting, meaningful, and life-changing careers you’ll experience. Join us and pursue innovative ideas alongside some of the brightest minds in biopharma, collaborating with a team rich in diversity of experiences, and perspectives. We have built a sustainable pipeline of potential therapies and are leveraging translational medicine and data analytics to understand how we can deliver the right medicine to the right patient, at the right time, to achieve the best outcome. Whether in a scientific, business or supporting function, a career at BMS means you’ll be inspired every day to grow and thrive through opportunities that are uncommon in scale and scope. Here, you’ll be on the cutting edge of powerful innovation in oncology, hematology, immunology, cardiovascular disease, and fibrosis, with colleagues united in the mission to help patients. Through the Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation, we also promote health equity and seek to improve health outcomes of populations disproportionately affected by serious diseases and conditions. Our mission is to give new hope to help patients prevail over serious disease – it drives everything we do.