Position Summary:

The CNS Disease Biology Group is seeking a skilled candidate to participate in an internship (8 – 12 weeks) to assist with our drug discovery and assay development efforts. The selected candidate will conduct lab-based behavioral neuroscience research utilizing in vivo rodent behavior models. The goal of this paid internship is to provide a young scientist with the opportunity to learn and take part in drug discovery research. 

Responsibilities

Essential Areas of Responsibility:

The intern will work collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team to conduct their own project, gaining exposure to experimental techniques and theories relevant to CNS disorders. This project will include multiple aspects of in vivo research, including animal handling, necropsy, assay development and validation, and statistical analysis. Key responsibilities include daily animal handling, running of rodent behavioral assays, basic data management and visualization, establishing a working knowledge of relevant laboratory techniques, contributing to wider scientific discussion, and preparing scientific presentations.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

Education & Experience Requirements:

• A Junior or Senior Undergraduate Student, or recent (1-2 years) graduate, with research experience in biology, pharmacology, neuroscience or related fields is required. 

Required Skills:

• Proficiency handling rodents.
• An understanding of appropriate experimental design and statistical analysis.
• Good presentation and oral/written communication skills.
• The ability to work and thrive in a collaborative environment.   
• Outstanding initiative to learn new techniques and procedures

Preferred Skills:

While training will be provided for the selected intern, the following skills are highly desirable:

• Ability to search and interpret scientific literature surrounding CNS disorders. 
• Experience with open-field locomotion and/or operant conditioning models in rodents
• Prior experience with rodent dosing, specifically subcutaneous
• Experience performing basic ex-vivo tissue processing techniques 
• Ability to work in our Waltham location

About Us

Why join Team Alkermes?

Alkermes applies its deep neuroscience expertise to develop medicines designed to help people living with complex and difficult-to-treat psychiatric and neurological disorders. A fully-integrated, global biopharmaceutical company, headquartered in Ireland with U.S. locations in Massachusetts and Ohio, we are committed to pursuing great science, driven by deep compassion to make a real impact in the lives of patients. Alkermes has a portfolio of proprietary commercial products for the treatment of alcohol dependence, opioid dependence, schizophrenia and bipolar I disorder, and a pipeline of clinical and preclinical candidates in development for various neurological disorders, including narcolepsy.

Beyond our important mission of developing medicines to address unmet patient needs, we actively seek to foster a culture of diversity, inclusion and belonging throughout our business. We strive to ensure that all voices are respected and valued, recognizing that our diversity of thought, background and perspective makes us stronger. We are proud to have been recognized as an employer of choice by many national organizations, including being certified as a Great Place to Work in the U.S. in 2024, honored as a Healthiest Employer in both Ohio and Massachusetts in 2023, a Best Place for Working Parents in 2023, and to have received the Bell Seal at the Platinum level for Workplace Mental Health by Mental Health America for three consecutive years (2021-2023). 

Alkermes, Inc. is an equal employment opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any qualified applicant or employee because of race, creed, color, age, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender expression and identity, disability, genetic information, veteran status, military status, application for military service or any other characteristic protected by local, state or federal law.  Alkermes also complies with all work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act and IRCA.  Alkermes is an E-Verify employer.