Internship In Innovation & Sustainability - For Students In The Field Of Organic Chemistry

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Die Position

Our Global Internship Programme in Innovation& Sustainability (#IP2TIS) offers a unique opportunity for passionate individuals to gain hands-on experience in the pharmaceutical industry while making a positive impact on the world.

Are you ready to join a global network spanning 20+ countries, where bright minds collaborate to tackle real-world challenges in Innovation& Sustainability? Do you want to work on impactful projects, shape the future, and drive change from within?

As an intern, you will contribute to a project focused on developing an enantioselective synthesis of a key chiral chemical motif used in ongoing preclinical programs. Within your first 3 months, you are expected to synthesize a subset of substrates, which will be used in high-throughput reaction screening. You will evaluate the most promising transition-metal catalyzed reaction conditions, and work on the transfer of the reaction from milligram to gram scale in automated lab reactors. Your work will support greener chemical process development by reducing waste, lowering step count, and improving process mass intensity. This internship offers the opportunity to work with modern synthesis tools and contribute to more sustainable chemical manufacturing in drug development.

The Opportunity

• Work at the nexus of drug discovery and early development
• Focus on an enantioselective transition-metal catalyzed reaction
• Contribute to high-throughput reaction screening using modern screening systems and 96-well plate formats
• Analyze reaction data to identify promising conditions and assess the generality of the transformation across substrates
• Support the transfer of optimized reaction conditions from milligram scale to gram scale in automated lab reactors
• Contribute to crystallization development and product isolation as part of chemical process development
• Apply green chemistry principles when evaluating reaction efficiency, waste reduction, and environmental impact
• Collaborate with the team to develop a more sustainable and scalable synthetic route for a key chiral building block

Who You Are

You are enrolled or have completed your Master’s studies at a university, preferably in the field of Organic Chemistry within the last 12 months and are interested in applying your knowledge in a modern working environment as part of an internship of at least 3 months.

Furthermore you are

• Experienced in organic synthesis laboratory work
• Familiar with analytical methods such as NMR and HPLC
• Interested in reaction development, scale-up, and modern synthesis technologies such as high-throughput screening and automated lab reactors
• An analytical thinker who communicates clearly and works well in collaboration with others
• Fluent in English; German is a plus

If you meet most but not all qualifications, we still encourage you to apply.

Additional information

The internship is expected to start between 1 and 16 July 2026 and will last at least 3 months.

For more information about IP2TIS and to explore other opportunities within the programme, please visit go.roche.com/ip2tis_26._

Wer wir sind

Eine gesündere Zukunft treibt uns zur Innovation an. Mehr als 100.000 Mitarbeiter weltweit arbeiten gemeinsam daran, wissenschaftliche Fortschritte zu erzielen und sicherzustellen, dass jeder Zugang zur Gesundheitsversorgung hat – heute und für zukünftige Generationen. Durch unser Engagement werden über 26 Millionen Menschen mit unseren Medikamenten behandelt und mehr als 30 Milliarden Tests mit unseren Diagnostik-Produkten durchgeführt. Wir ermutigen uns gegenseitig, neue Möglichkeiten zu erkunden, Kreativität zu fördern und hohe Ziele zu setzen, um lebensverändernde Gesundheitslösungen zu liefern.

Gemeinsam können wir eine gesündere Zukunft gestalten.

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