Python Job: Internship Computational Chemistry

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What you will do:

The intern will be a member of the research and development team at the Janssen R&D center in Toledo, interacting closely with organic and computational chemists. The intern will learn to support the activities in drug discovery, in particular the development of new molecules using computational chemistry to rationalize and predict molecular structure-activity relations. The computational tools that will be used include molecular docking, molecular dynamics simulations, cheminformatics software and homology modeling. During the 12 months period at the Janssen R&D center, the intern will receive both practical and theoretical training on the application of computational chemistry to medicinal chemistry, with a focus on the selection of the most appropriate computational techniques, the analysis and the interpretation of experimental data and the communication of scientific results.

The Computer Aided Drug Discovery (CADD) group within Janssen R&D is focused on the use of modelling and computational approaches to understand the interactions between molecules, their putative biological targets, and the therapeutic consequences. The group plays a key role collaborating with therapeutic areas and other functional scientific areas to apply modelling in the discovery of new drugs.

• Bachelor or Master’s degree in Chemistry, Biochemistry or related field obtained in the last four years.

• No previous working experience in a position related to the academic degree after the degree was obtained.

• Interest in computational chemistry and experience with molecular modeling, including molecular visualization software.

• Experience working with shell scripting in Unix/Linux environments and basic Python coding skills.

• Interest in learning and applying state of the art experimental analytical techniques (e. g. NMR).

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