Job Description

ORGANIC AND MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY INTERN

Location: Kalamazoo, MI

The following hourly pay rates reflect the anticipated base pay for this position:

If the selected candidate is a student pursuing an Associate-level degree: $16.00 per hour

If the selected candidate is a student pursuing an Undergraduate-level degree: $20.00 per hour

If the selected candidate is a student pursing a Graduate-level degree: $32.50 per hour

If the selected candidate is a student pursuing a Doctorate-level degree: $36.00 per hour

The following hourly pay rates reflect the anticipated base pay for this position if a selected candidate were to be located in California, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Illinois (Chicago area), Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Washington (Seattle area):

Student pursuing an Associate-level degree: $17.00 per hour

Student pursuing an Undergraduate-level degree: $22.00 per hour

Student pursing a Graduate-level degree: $36.40 per hour

Student pursuing a Doctorate-level degree: $40.30 per hour

Internship Summary:

The selected candidate will join a team of bench chemists within the Medicinal Chemistry group that specializes in organic synthesis of novel drug analogues, synthetic problem solving, drug candidate scale-ups, and SAR analysis to support multi-disciplinary projects. Their position will be lab based and initially focus on manager directed analogue development with opportunities to design and synthesize some of their own compounds after comprehensive review of the data alongside various team members. Efforts may extend to include reaction optimization and/or methodology development depending on current project needs. The overall goal of this internship is to provide the selected candidate with an industry focused Medicinal Chemistry experience.

Internship Job Duties:

• Design, run, and analyze complex organic chemistry experiments at the bench in an organic/ medicinal chemistry environment.
• Effectively communicate results with colleagues via reports, discussions, etc.

Internship Qualifications:

• MS or PhD Student in Chemistry, Biochemistry, Medicinal Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Sciences or related scientific field is desired.
• Strong foundation of organic chemistry knowledge with experience in an organic research laboratory (graduate research work).
• A desire to spend most of the time at the bench running synthetic experiments.
• Understanding of modern analytical methods such as HPLC/LCMS/NMR.
• Creativity, autonomy, can-do attitude, and problem-solving abilities.
• Excellent verbal/written communication and interpersonal skills.

Full time

Intern (Trainee)

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