BenevolentAI unites technology with human intelligence to re-engineer drug discovery and deliver life-changing medicines. We have developed the Benevolent Platform®, a drug discovery platform built on powerful data foundations with state of the art machine learning and AI technology. Our technology empowers scientists to decipher the vast and complex code underlying human biology, find new ways to treat disease and personalise medicines to patients. Benevolent has active in-house R&D drug programmes in disease areas such as neurodegeneration, immunology, oncology and inflammation and has research and commercial collaborations with leading pharmaceutical and research organisations. The company is headquartered in London with a research facility in Cambridge (UK) and a further office in New York.
We are an eclectic bunch at Benevolent, united by our belief that innovative thinking and purposeful technology can truly change outcomes for the better. Our mission is to re-engineer drug discovery and deliver life-changing medicines for patients in need and we do this by applying AI, machine learning and other advanced technologies to reinvent the ways drugs are discovered and developed. We strive to bring together unique skills and perspectives across biology, chemistry, engineering, AI research, informatics, precision medicine and drug discovery.
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.
Together, we envision a world in which no disease goes untreated. If you are benevolent, curious, want to tackle real world problems and are willing to embrace new ideas, hit that ‘apply’ button and join us.
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