Summer Neuroscience Intern 2024

Non-LDP Intern/Co-Op                  ·               Spring House, Pennsylvania, United States                 ·                 Full time

Summer Neuroscience Intern 2024

• JOB TITLE: Summer Neuroscience Intern 2024
• FUNCTION: Career Programs
• SUB FUNCTION: Non-LDP Intern/Co-Op
• LOCATION: Spring House, Pennsylvania, United States
• DATE POSTED: Jan 30 2024
• REQUISITION NUMBER: 2406166699W

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Description

At Johnson & Johnson, we use technology and the power of teamwork to discover new ways to prevent and overcome the world’s most significant healthcare challenges. Our Corporate, Consumer Health, Medical Devices, and Pharmaceutical teams leverage data, real-world insights, and creative minds to make life-changing healthcare products and medicines. We’re disrupting outdated healthcare ecosystems and infusing them with transformative ideas to help people thrive throughout every stage of their lives. With a reach of more than a billion people every day, there’s no limit to the impact you can make here. Are you ready to reimagine healthcare?   

Here, your career breakthroughs will change the future of health, in all the best ways. And you’ll change, too. You’ll be inspired, and you’ll inspire people across the world to change how they care for themselves and those they love. Join us! 

Janssen Research and Development, L.L.C., a member of Johnson and Johnson’s Family of Companies, is recruiting for a Summer Neuroscience Intern. This position is located in Spring House, PA. 

At Janssen, we never stop working toward a future where disease is a thing of the past. We’re the Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, and you can count on us to keep working tirelessly to make that future a reality for patients everywhere, by fighting sickness with science, improving access with ingenuity, and healing hopelessness with heart. We focus on areas of medicine where we can make the biggest difference: Cardiovascular & Metabolism, Immunology, Infectious Diseases & Vaccines, Neuroscience, Oncology, and Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension. Visit us:  www.janssen.com  

We are seeking a summer intern for the Neuroscience Therapeutic Area. The summer intern will advance ongoing in vitro modeling efforts to discover cellular disease phenotypes associated with neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s Disease and Parkinson’s Disease. The summer intern will be responsible for planning, conducting, interpreting, and reporting experimental results while interacting with an interdisciplinary team of scientists. 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Develop, conduct, and interpret in vitro experiments using rodent primary neurons.  
• Use various experimental approaches, including qRT-PCR, ELISA, and immunocytochemistry. 
• Provide project updates and experimental findings in oral and written communication. 

Qualifications

• Candidates must be enrolled in an accredited college pursuing a bachelor’s degree, master’s degree or PHD in Neuroscience, Biology, or a related field. Students entering their final year of studies (graduation in 2025) are preferred. 
• At least one academic year of undergraduate research experience or a full-time, lab-based summer internship using cell culture techniques is expected.  
• Candidates must be available in Summer of 2024 and able to work full-time during the duration of the internship. 
• Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States and not require sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g. H1-B status) now or in the future. 
• Comfortable working independently as well as on a team. 
• Candidates need to be proficient with Microsoft Office, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Additional technical competencies in GraphPad Prism or other statistical software are highly desirable, as is experience with PubMed or other literature databases. 
• Excellent organization, communication, presentation skills and scientific/technical writing skills. 
• A minimum G.P.A. of 3.0 is strongly preferred. 
• Housing will not be offered for this internship. 

Johnson & Johnson is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

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