2025 Clinical Pharmacology Intern

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn. 

Clinical Pharmacology 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.

AbbVie’s Clinical Pharmacology (ClinPharm) organization provides critical scientific support for all phases of pharmaceutical research and development in all divisions of the business. ClinPharm leads the design, execution, and interpretation of all clinical pharmacology Phase 1 studies, and exposure-clinical response modeling and simulation to optimize dose selection and trial design. The team also integrates data from multiple sources including preclinical and clinical pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, dosing compliance/adherence, effective and toxic exposures, financial metrics, and overall cost/benefit. Another key responsibility of the team is to present the data to regulatory authorities world-wide and authors more than half of the clinical summary documents for global regulatory submissions. 

Internship projects could vary and are dependent on therapeutic area needs. Current therapeutic areas supported include Immunology, Oncology, Neurology, and Specialty assets. 

The internship will run for 10-12 weeks during the summer and will be based in North Chicago, IL.

Key project responsibilities include:

• Analysis of literature and in-house proprietary data 
• Dose- and Exposure- Safety & Efficacy Endpoint Analysis 
• Database Analyses 
• Development of mathematical models (e.g. PK/PD, Population PK, etc.) 
• Conducting simulations using mathematical models 
• Model-Informed Drug Development (MIDD) 
• Clinical Study Design 
• Presentation to broader team at the conclusion of the assignment 
• Publication of authorized analyses 

Minimum Qualifications 

• Currently enrolled in university, pursuing a PharmD or PhD in Pharmacokinetics, Pharmaceutics, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Clinical Pharmacology or other related field
• Must be returning to university for at least one semester following the internship

Preferred Qualifications 

• Expected graduation date between December 2025 – June 2026

Benefits and Amenities

• Competitive pay
• Relocation support for eligible students
• Select wellness benefits and paid holiday / sick time

Equal Employment Opportunity
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• 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.​

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