Summary
Elephas, a Madison, WI based biotechnology start-up company, is seeking a highly motivated Data Science Intern to join our team. Applicants should be comfortable in a fast-paced and collaborative environment. The successful candidate will be a motivated student pursuing a career as a Data Scientist who will contribute to developing, optimizing, and validating Elephas’ cancer diagnostics platform.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Extract meaningful information from high dimensional multi-modal datasets
- Assist with data analysis, modeling, visualization, interpretation, presentation and quality control of clinical and basic science data
- Develop and implement algorithms or numerical methods to support quantitative analysis of platform measurement modalities
- Validate and test existing analytical code to improve and harden workflows
- Work collaboratively with immunologists, scientists, data and software engineers
- Experience and interest in oncology, immunology, and cancer research
Education/Experience/Skills
- Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, Biomedical Engineering, Data Science, Computer Science, or related field
- Knowledge of machine learning, data science, data mining, statistics, signal processing, image processing, etc.
- Experience programming in Python is preferred
- Strong background in quantitative analysis and statistics
- Strong analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills
- Detail-oriented with strong organizational and time management skills
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Benefits
- Practical experience with varied business activities
- Shadowing, mentoring, and training with experienced and accomplished professionals
- Competitive compensation
- Flexible schedule
- Collaborative and supportive work environment
We offer our interns competitive compensation and practical industry experience, including shadowing, mentoring, and training with experienced and accomplished professionals.
DISCLAIMER
The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to the job.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.
Top Skills
What We Do
Elephas is developing a technology platform to assess how live tumor cells respond to cancer therapies. We are harnessing the latest advances in cancer biology, multimodal microscopy, engineering, and artificial intelligence to revolutionize cancer treatment. Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide, with the number of patients projected to triple by 2060. Despite advances in precision medicine and a significant increase in the number of available therapies, many cancer patients still derive no benefit from their treatment. Immunotherapy is an emerging type of treatment that can greatly benefit patients when it is successful. Unfortunately, today only 1 in 3 patients receiving therapy respond and only 1 in 5 receiving immunotherapy respond. We maintain the native 3-dimensional cellular architecture of a patient’s tumor and enable ex-vivo real-time profiling of live tumor samples. The platform is being developed for use with immunotherapy agents alone and in combination with traditional chemotherapy and targeted therapies. THE ELEPHAS MISSION To develop innovative cancer diagnostic products and services that enable accurate prediction of clinical treatment outcomes and accelerate drug development
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