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The Position
The RiSE program (Roche Internships for Scientific Exchange) is a highly competitive student research program at Roche. It offers the most talented postgraduate PhD and medical degree students the opportunity to be fully integrated into our interdisciplinary and international industry R&D environment. As a RiSE student you will enhance your competencies, gain valuable work experience with us, and eventually become part of a world-wide network of RiSE Alumni.
The Neuroscience and Rare Diseases Discovery and Translational Area (NRD DTA) is developing medicines for a range of serious neurological diseases, including multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, autism, spinal muscular atrophy, and Huntington's disease.
As RiSE student in the NRD DTA you will join our Translational MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) group in Biomarkers and Translational Technologies, and perform at the Roche Innovation Center Basel, Switzerland, exploratory work on deep-learning artificial intelligence as a novel approach for brain segmentation in preclinical MRI data analysis. You will be hosted and mentored by a Roche scientist who will guide you through your research and provide you with the needed work infrastructure and collaborative network.
During the internship your tasks will include
working within a multidisciplinary preclinical MRI team composed of 6 scientists, engineers and technicians, being mentored by a principal scientist
identifying deep-learning modalities suitable for high-quality brain segmentation in small animal imaging, and exploratory implementation of the selected deep-network architecture(s)
tapping into an unrivalled rich database of preclinical MRI data for training and bringing alive the artificial intelligence approach
benchmarking the performance of your solution against the existing segmentation approach
publishing your findings in an internationally recognised scientific journal
Who You Are
You're someone who wants to influence your own development. You're looking for a company where you have the opportunity to pursue your interests across functions and geographies. Where a job title is not considered the final definition of who you are, but the starting point.
Moreover you are/have
enrolled in a PhD or medical degree program at a university and are looking to expand your experience with an industry internship (must still be enrolled at university for 50% of the duration of the stay at Roche)
educational background in biomedical engineering, informatics and/or machine learning
solid expertise in the theory and application of deep learning and deep-network architecture, preferably applied to neuroimaging problems
routine hands-on experience with related software tools, and pertinent programming skills
The preferred start date of the internship is beginning 2021 or upon availability. Applications need to include
Please note that due to regulations non-EU/EFTA citizens have to provide a certificate from the university stating that an industry internship is mandatory as part of the university training.
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