Organic and Medicinal Chemistry Internship

Role Description: ORGANIC AND MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY INTERNSHIP Kalamazoo, MI Internship Summary: The intern will join a team of bench chemists within the Medicinal Chemistry group, contributing to the synthesis of novel drug analogs, troubleshooting synthetic challenges, and supporting the scale-up of promising drug candidates. This laboratory-based role will focus on analogue development and synthetic methodology, providing hands-on experience with industry-relevant medicinal chemistry practices and drug discovery workflows. Internship Job Duties: · Design, execute, and interpret complex organic chemistry experiments in a laboratory-based medicinal chemistry environment. · Document and communicate experimental results through written reports, data summaries, presentations, and discussions with colleagues Internship Qualifications: · Currently enrolled in a Master's or PhD program. · Strong foundation of organic chemistry knowledge with experience in an organic research laboratory (graduate research work). · A desire to spend most of the time at the bench running synthetic experiments. · Understand modern analytical methods such as HPLC/LCMS/NMR. · Creativity, autonomy, can-do attitude, and problem-solving abilities. · Excellent verbal/written communication and interpersonal skills. The following hourly pay rates reflect the anticipated base pay for this position: If the selected candidate is a student pursuing an Associate-level degree: $16.00 per hour If the selected candidate is a student pursuing an Undergraduate-level degree: $22.00 per hour If the selected candidate is a student pursing a Graduate-level degree: $32.50 per hour If the selected candidate is a student pursuing a Doctorate-level degree: $36.00 per hour The following hourly pay rates reflect the anticipated base pay for this position if a selected candidate were to be located in California, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Illinois (Chicago area), Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Washington (Seattle area): Student pursuing an Associate-level degree: $17.00 per hour Student pursuing an Undergraduate-level degree: $24.20 per hour Student pursing a Graduate-level degree: $36.40 per hour Student pursuing a Doctorate-level degree: $40.30 per hour Full time Intern (Trainee) Colleague Any unsolicited resumes sent to Zoetis from a third party, such as an Agency recruiter, including unsolicited resumes sent to a Zoetis mailing address, fax machine or email address, directly to Zoetis employees, or to Zoetis resume database will be considered Zoetis property. Zoetis will NOT pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume. Zoetis will consider any candidate for whom an Agency has submitted an unsolicited resume to have been referred by the Agency free of any charges or fees. This includes any Agency that is an approved/engaged vendor but does not have the appropriate approvals to be engaged on a search. …