Genmab Internship: Data Engineering & Bioinformatics

At Genmab, we’re dedicated to shaping extraordinary futures together. By developing groundbreaking antibody products and pioneering innovative therapies, we aim to transform the lives of patients and advance cancer treatment and serious diseases.

Our team members are known for their care, honesty, and impact-driven approach. Our business thrives on innovation and scientific excellence. At Genmab, we celebrate uniqueness, strive to be our best, and embrace authenticity, all to fulfill our overarching mission.

The Role

Join our vibrant bioinformatics team at Genmab as a Student Data Engineer. In this internship, you will create and manage advanced data architectures following FAIR principles to support our scientific endeavors. Your focus will be on integrating real-world clinical and molecular data into graph database models for complex analyses and innovative research methodologies. You will also explore natural language processing applications for efficient data querying.

This opportunity allows you to gain expertise in data engineering technologies, contribute to bioinformatics solutions, and make a direct impact on our groundbreaking therapeutic research. Your work will support critical projects to enhance drug discovery and development, fostering your growth as a data scientist while making a significant difference in biomedicine.

Project Background

Translational research utilizes real-world data sets to understand patient responses to cancer treatments, often integrating complex and non-standardized molecular and clinical data. Clinical datasets designed for specific scientific questions typically lack detailed granularity, making exploration challenging.

This project aims to leverage graph databases to overcome these challenges by deploying flexible, multidimensional data structures that facilitate easier access and intuitive querying. Through this initiative, we hope to develop AI-driven querying techniques using natural language, enhancing our ability to extract valuable insights from complex datasets.

Responsibilities

• Technology Exploration: Investigate various graph database technologies for clinical data management, assessing their strengths and limitations.
• Data Model Comparison: Analyze and compare data structures of graph and relational databases to identify effective frameworks for clinical data.
• Pilot Database Development: Design and implement a prototype database for standardizing clinical real-world data to support robust data integration and access.
• Natural Language Query Development: Create methods for querying graph databases using natural language, employing advanced AI technologies.
• Findings Presentation: Regularly present progress and insights in team meetings, ensuring clear communication of developments and challenges.
• Bonus Objective: Develop a user interface for easy querying, visualization, and presentation of database results.

Requirements

• Education: BSc/MSc student in bioinformatics, computational biology, or related field.
• Technical Skills: Strong technical skills with significant experience in Python programming. Familiarity with AWS is a plus.
• Soft Skills: Comfortable with pioneering research, creative processes, scientific thinking, and technical requirements.

About You

• Passionate about our mission to transform patient lives through innovative cancer treatment.
• Bringing rigor and excellence to all endeavors, fiercely believing in a science-driven approach to problem-solving.
• Generous collaborator capable of working with teams from diverse backgrounds.
• Determined to do and be your best, enabling others to perform their best work.
• Not afraid of the unknown and eager to innovate.
• Experience or strong desire to work in a fast-growing, dynamic company.
• Work hard while also enjoying the process.

Locations

Genmab promotes an agile working environment for optimal work-life balance. Our offices are community-based, open spaces designed to immerse employees in our state-of-the-art laboratories. Whether in our collaborative office spaces or working remotely, we thrive on innovation through connection.

About Genmab

Genmab is a global biotechnology company committed to improving patient lives with innovative, differentiated antibody therapeutics. For over 20 years, our passionate and collaborative team has developed next-generation antibody technologies, resulting in a proprietary pipeline including bispecific T-cell engagers, next-generation immune checkpoint modulators, and more.

Genmab has formed over 20 strategic partnerships with biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies