IBM Research Europe (UK) is seeking outstanding students for a summer internship. Our lab focuses on using cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to advance scientific discovery processes in industries that have applications in urgent societal impact areas such as healthcare and life sciences.

The IBM Research team is harnessing the potential of biomedical foundation models (BMFMs) to tap into diverse multi-modal data sources, including human genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, small molecules, and biologics. By leveraging these rich datasets, researchers aim to drive and enhance critical tasks throughout the drug discovery process, such as identifying novel drug targets, understanding disease mechanisms, designing de-novo small molecules, and developing new biologics.

During the internship you will work in small groups under the mentorship of experienced researchers, addressing problems at the forefront of artificial intelligence for healthcare and life sciences. Areas of research include, but not limited to, new architectures and algorithms for training, fine-tuning, and applying biomedical foundation models to multi-modal life sciences data (e.g., multi-omics) with the aim of accelerate drug discovery tasks (e.g., predicting patient drug response, identifying new drug targets, predicting treatment outcome). Job responsibilities may include identifying and defining research challenges, developing prototype solutions, designing experimental setups to test hypotheses, refining solutions, and communicating findings through patent applications and publications in top-tier conferences.


You should enclose a CV and include a one-page cover letter in your application. Internships are for three months and are based at our Daresbury (Warrington) and Hursley (Winchester) facilities.