Schrödinger is hiring a
Pipeline Strategy & Asset Landscape Analysis Intern in United States

Summary

The job is for a Pipeline Strategy and Asset Landscape Analysis Intern at Schrödinger, a company specializing in drug discovery. The intern will review literature and data sources to assess therapeutic landscapes, identify new target opportunities, and develop recommendations for ongoing drug discovery programs.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s, MS, or ongoing PhD in a life science-related field; medical students; or business management/MBA students with relevant experience
• Experience in identifying new biological targets and unmet needs for therapeutic indications via primary and secondary sources

Responsibilities

• Perform landscape analysis of therapeutic area(s) to identify unmet medical needs in the patient population; best practices for diagnosis and standards of care, etiology, and epidemiology; and key molecular mechanisms involved in the pathogenesis and treatment of disease
• Survey the competitive landscape to identify emerging trends in treatment options, compare safety and efficacy data for clinical stage assets, and outline any promising novel targets and/or modalities
• Identify and reach out to key opinion leaders (KOLs) and synthesize insights to support recommendations
• Build target proposal packages, including therapeutic rationale, target patient population, competitive landscape, deal analyses, strengths/weaknesses and opportunities/threats, risks, etc. for targets that are fit for Schrödinger’s drug discovery platform
• Collaborate with different teams across the company and present proposals to leadership teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience/internships in life sciences startups, venture capital, equity research, company creation, and/or consulting
• Some experience with one or more of the following is preferred: immunology, small molecule drug discovery, target validation, molecular pharmacology

Benefits

• Catered meals in the office
• Company culture that is relaxed but engaged
• A myriad of fun company-wide events
• Located in New York, with teams all over the world
• Selected as one of Crain's New York Best Places to Work for the past three years running