With over 35 nationalities and a range of backgrounds represented in our Benevolent team, we aim to build an inclusive environment where our people can bring their authentic selves to work, be respected for who they are and the exceptional work they do. We welcome and actively encourage applications from all sections of society and are committed to offering equal employment opportunities regardless of sex, race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, parental status, disability, age, citizenship, or any other basis. We see our diversity as an asset as we tackle challenging problems that bridge the gap between drug discovery and technology.
We are seeking bioinformatics data scientists to join our London teams and apply advanced bioinformatics methods and data analytics to real world drug discovery challenges. We have identified 3 projects across our Product Areas at BenevolentAI, which each give successful candidates the opportunity to learn more about leveraging biomedical data, developing targeting identification processes and establishing precision medicine workflows, all within an industry setting.
A significant amount of the pre-clinical data accumulated by BenevolentAI from the development of biological assays to characterise drug targets and evaluate potential therapeutic molecules. Databases dedicated to manage bioassay data could provide a rich resource for drug target identification. As such, the aim of this project is to build an automatic data processing pipeline to standardise assay data ingestion into BenevolentAI’s Knowledge Graph. The opportunities offered by this project include:
At BenevolentAI, our teams have developed performant models by collecting and encoding biological and chemical information around biomedical entities (e.g. genes, drugs, diseases, mechanisms). We are looking for an intern to help build a catalogue of discrete latent vector representations in our feature store; a central repository of features for biomedical entities in the problems we face day-to-day. This set of representations will help facilitate rapid experimentation of new models and improve existing workflows used for target identification. Due to the nature of the work, you will be expected to liaise with various teams across the business including chemistry, target identification, and precision medicine. You will be supported by bioinformaticians, data scientists and engineers. The opportunities offered by this project include:
The Precision Medicine team at Benevolent is applying latent variable models (LVMs) to transcriptomics data in order to define pathologically distinct patient subgroups and their key gene regulatory mechanisms. Within the Precision Medicine Omics pipeline, the latent variables are analysed in the context of a priori defined genesets, representing known biological processes or metabolic pathways. Given the availability of high resolution single cell transcriptomics data (scRNA-seq) for many human tissues and diseases, the team is planning to use these data and identify de-novo genesets, i.e. groups of genes representing disease-specific mechanisms that would provide an enriched view of the results of our AI models in the context of drug discovery. As an intern, you will be helping the Precision Medicine team to tackle this goal. You will be supported by bioinformatics / AI data scientists and will interact with engineers and Translational Medicine Scientists. This opportunities offered by this project include:
Applications close on February 12th, 2021. In addition to your CV, please send us a cover letter.
Salary: We offer remuneration for the duration of the internships. However, remuneration remains subject to the University regulations & T&C’s - should they not comply with our policy, we reserve the right to review the salary allowance.
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BenevolentAI (AMS: BAI) is a leading, clinical-stage AI-enabled drug discovery and development company listed on the Euronext Amsterdam stock exchange. Through the combined capabilities of its AI platform, scientific expertise, and wet-lab facilities, BenevolentAI is well-positioned to deliver novel drug candidates with a higher probability of clinical success than those developed using traditional methods. The Benevolent Platform™ powers a growing in-house pipeline of 13 named drug programmes and over 10 exploratory programmes, and it maintains successful collaborations with AstraZeneca, as well as leading research and charitable institutions. BenevolentAI is headquartered in London, with a research facility in Cambridge (UK) and a further office in New York.
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