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At Aqemia, you will work in a multi-disciplinary team of passionate drug hunters, AI engineers, and developers who are committed to our mission of discovering numerous drugs swiftly to cure diseases.
As part of our growing team, you will thrive in a fast-paced, challenging, science-driven and creative atmosphere while working at the forefront of AI and Deep physics-powered drug discovery. This presents an excellent opportunity to leave your mark on transforming the way medicines are discovered and play a role in shaping the future of our rapidly-expanding business and team.
We are looking for highly skilled and collaborative individuals who are naturally inquisitive, passionate about learning and finding solutions to intricate problems with a "can-do" mentality.
If this sounds exhilarating to you, join us!
The difference you’ll make:
Within Aqemia’s drug discovery infrastructure team, you will contribute to the technological and scientific advancement of the Chemistry platform. Its aim is to offer state-of-the-art algorithms to facilitate drug discovery operations at Aqemia.
As an intern, you will work more directly on our public in vitro assays database. This information is a crucial aspect of our drug discovery pipeline as it aids us in understanding the bioactivity of compounds amongst their targets. Your primary objective will be to enhance the quality standards of this data by collaborating closely with end users. Good chemistry skills and understanding of ic50 biochemical assays will be vital for achieving your objectives, as well as strong communication skills.
This is a final year internship lasting at least 4-6 months and can commence anytime between January and June 2024.
What you will do:
• Extract meaningful insights from internal and external biochemical data to improve Aqemia's technology.
• Supply our Drug discovery and Machine Learning teams with quality biochemical data to maximize their success in identifying new drugs.
• Contribute to the enhancement of our custom computational chemistry algorithms.
Your profile:
• Bachelor's degree in Chemistry, Cheminformatics, Computational Chemistry, or a related field.
• Proficiency in Python.
Who you are:
• You are eager to actively contribute to Aqemia’s strategy to develop drugs for patients.
• You relish tackling challenging problems in critical issues.
• You are inquisitive and proactive with a can-do attitude.
• You look forward to becoming part of a small team and making your mark on drug discovery.
• You enjoy working collaboratively in a fast-paced, interdisciplinary setting that keeps everyone focused.
Our Workplace Environment:
• Fast-paced, intellectually and scientifically challenging, outcome-focused.
• Our founders boast over 10 years of research experience at Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, including stints in Oxford and Cambridge/10+ years of strategic consulting experience at BCG.
• Aqemia boasts a rapidly growing team of +50 individuals from world-class institutions (AstraZeneca, GSK, Sanofi, Harvard, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Ecole Polytechnique, BCG).
• Our premises are centrally located in Paris (1 Bd Pasteur), with the option of up to 2 days of remote work.
• We are part of the French Tech 2030 program.
• Working language: English
We are growing fast, if you feel you don't meet all the requirements for this role but are still eager to join, please get in touch!
Aqemia extends Equal Employment Opportunity to all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, disability status or any other category protected under applicable law.
