2024 Cell Culture Development Intern

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Cell Culture Development Intern Overview

Envision spending your summer working with energetic colleagues and inspirational leaders, all while gaining world-class experience in one of the most dynamic organizations in the pharmaceutical industry. This is a reality for AbbVie Interns.

The Cell Culture Development Intern will support the Cell Culture Development Group in South San Francisco, CA to work on an exciting project developing a N-1 perfusion process for Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) applications.

Key responsibilities include:

• Prepare cell culture media and stock solutions.
• Plan, design, and execute cell culture activities from vial thaw, passaging, scale-up, and shake flask fed batch production experiments.
• Setup and execute 2L bioreactors with ATF perfusion.
• Monitor the cell culture performance via various analyzers such as cell counter, blood gas analyzer, metabolite analyzer, and HPLC.
• Document and analyze data.
• Author and present experiment findings in a PowerPoint and/or poster presentation. 

Minimum Qualifications  

• Currently enrolled in university, pursuing a Master’s or PhD in Biology, Biochemistry, Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering, or other related field.
• Must be enrolled in university for at least one semester following the internship.
• Laboratory experience with mammalian cell culture and proficiency in aseptic technique.

Preferred Qualifications

• Expected graduation date between December 2024 – July 2025.
• Experience with ATF (alternating tangential flow filtration) perfusion technology.
• Experience in executing mammalian suspension cell culture processes in shake flasks and 2L bioreactors.
• Experience with authoring technical reports and delivering presentations.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Benefits and Amenities

• Competitive pay
• Relocation support for eligible students.
• Break rooms stocked with complimentary coffee, tea, beverages, snacks, and cold breakfast items.
• Onsite café and fitness center.

Equal Employment Opportunity
At AbbVie, we value bringing together individuals from diverse backgrounds to develop new and innovative solutions for patients. As an equal opportunity employer we do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic.

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.​

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law. ​

AbbVie is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion.  It is AbbVie’s policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status.