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!
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.
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 is to help move more medicines and preventions with more diverse talent to more diverse patients everywhere, faster.
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).
HOW INTERNBIO SUPPORTS COMPANIES AND STUDENTS
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InternBio, The biopharma exclusively for interns, partners with stakeholders to help drive our mission.
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