Internship Computational Chemistry

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**Job Function:**

Career Programs

**Job Sub** **Function:**

Non-LDP Intern/Co-Op

**Job Category:**

Career Program

**All Job Posting Locations:**

Toledo, Spain

**Job Description:**

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The intern will be a member of the research and development team at the Innovative Medicine R&D center in Toledo, interacting closely with organic and computational chemists. During the internship, the researcher will work on the development of computational tools to support activities within the drug discovery workflow, focusing on methods aimed at rationalizing and predicting molecular structure-activity relations. He/she will gain ample expertise in the use of molecular dynamics for the analysis of flexibility in protein-ligand complexes and will use tools such as molecular docking and AI-based methods for the prediction of biomolecular structures and interactions.

During the 12 months period at the Innovative Medicine R&D center, the researcher 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 is part of the In Silico Discovery department and is focused on the use of modelling and computational approaches to understand the interactions between molecules, their potential biological targets, and the therapeutic implications. The group plays a key role collaborating with therapeutic areas and other functional scientific areas to apply modelling in the discovery of new drugs.

**Requirements:**

+ Master’s degree in Chemistry, Biochemistry, Bioinfortmatics 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

+ Not having been the recipient of similar internship grants in the past

+ Interest in computational chemistry and experience with molecular dynamics simulations

+ Experience working with shell scripting in Unix/Linux environments and Python coding

**We offer:**

+ One year internship

+ 1000 euros per month

+ Start date - October

+ Toledo