BASED AT UMASS AMHERST MOUNT IDA
CAMPUS, INTERNBIO IS BOSTON'S FIRST AND
ONLY BIOPHARMA CRO ON COLLEGE CAMPUS,
EXCLUSIVELY FOR INTERNS.

ABOUT INTERNBIO

Who We Are

InternBio is not a recruitment agency or laboratory. Conceived decades ago and initiated in 2008 and now based at UMass Amherst Mount Ida Campus (Boston area), InternBio is Boston’s biopharma contract research organization exclusively for interns, where no experience gets experience, so employers always find qualified, new, diverse talent biopharma-ready for first job after graduation.

Our bold vision is, InternBio in every college cluster, especially to reach more women, underrepresented minorities, disadvantaged backgrounds, first-generations, and immigrants — plus access to talent anywhere in the world. Diversity solved!

• Initially, we focus in two functional areas: Clinical Operations and Data Science
• We get work to give work experience, anytime throughout the year.
• We also create work to give work experience, anytime throughout the year. 
• We hire college students and new graduates anywhere in the world as interns.
• Interns do not pay us or work for free. We pay interns.

What We Do

InternBio gets internship work from biopharma companies, and more broadly from the global life sciences industry, to give internship work experience on college campus to diverse students anytime throughout the year, so every student seeking an opportunity to strengthen their job applications to biopharma employers gets an opportunity, and biopharma employers always find qualified, new, diverse talent ready for first job after graduation. In addition, InternBio creates internship work to give work experience.

We get and create work to give work experience in biopharma, focusing initially in two in-demand functional areas: Clinical Operations and Data Science — developing interns as Clinical Trial Associates, Study Statisticians, and Study Programmers, for first job in the global life sciences industry. 

The global life sciences industry is broad and includes biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies, as well as vaccine, medical device, diagnostics, generics companies, global health organizations, contract research organizations (service providers), health research institutes, and independent consultants; hereafter referred to as “companies.”

Guided by managers and mentors, interns engage in clinical trials, observational studies, and real-world evidence generation to support innovation in medicine, vaccine, medical device, diagnostics, and healthcare for patient health and global public health.  

Conceptualized decades ago, initiated in 2008, and focused exclusively on interns since 2021 by a cure collaborative, InternBio collaborates across stakeholders and is powered by a stakeholder advisory group.

Our Why

Many strategies have been used by life science companies and organizations for decades to increase diversity and inclusion in the life sciences/biopharma industry, among them are (a small sample, no specific order):

• Mentoring and coaching

• Awarding scholarships, grants, sponsorships, loans

• Building visibility – to overcome the small-N problem

• Building networks, partnerships, collaboratives

• Leveraging alumni and other college groups

• In-company resource groups, workstreams, initiatives

• Getting hiring managers involved early

• Conferences, career fairs, workshops, webinars, seminars

• Summer and non-summer institutes

• Job announcements to diverse colleges and universities

• Talent recruitment visits to colleges, universities

• Career awareness visits to elementary, middle and high schools

• Adjusting recruitment and retention practices to minimize bias

• Unconscious bias trainings and discussions

• Looking to “new” sources for diverse talent

The result: zero or little sustainable impact, and so the discussions continue.

It’s time for something bold and differentiating — InternBio: The biopharma exclusively for interns.

Our bold vision is, InternBio in every college cluster, especially to reach more women, underrepresented minorities, disadvantaged backgrounds, first-generations, and immigrants — plus access to talent anywhere in the world. Diversity solved! 

Our Mission

Our mission is to help move more medicines and preventions with more diverse talent to more diverse patients everywhere, faster.

Your Benefits

To Companies/Employers: We prepare new talent for you. At InternBio, you find qualified, diverse, new talent ready to make an impact on Day 1, saving your people managers the hand-holding time and cost.

To New Talent: We prepare you for employers. At InternBio, you don’t need biopharma experience to get biopharma experience. You get anytime internships, so you are ready to make an impact on Day 1 in your first job in biopharma.

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InternBio is a member of the Kendall Square Association and the Cambridge Chamber of Commerce (Massachusetts).