ASPIRE Internship: Boudicca Dx, LLC, Brentwood, TN (remote)
Regulatory Science Consulting Intern
November 2024-January 2025
Brentwood, TN
About Boudicca Dx., LLC
Boudicca Dx is a company focused on developing and providing innovative precision medicine solutions. We provide clinical, commercial, product development, regulatory, technical, and quality compliance consulting services to clients, including biopharmaceutical companies, clinical laboratories (Laboratory Developed Tests [LDTs]), diagnostic developers (In Vitro Diagnostics [IVDs]), investment firms, and life science companies, who are developing precision medicine testing to individually tailor disease prevention and treatment.
Position
Boudicca Dx. is seeking graduate students and postdocs enrolled in a scientific program to gain valuable experience in regulatory science. Interested candidates are motivated self-starters who would thrive in the rapidly changing and challenging environment of a startup and working with fellow start-up clients. In this role, you will work closely with the Chief Executive Officer to execute regulatory analytics projects and will support high impact global regulatory affairs projects leveraging your scientific and technical training. Central to this work will be an ability to think in a logical, structured fashion, work effectively in a highly collaborative environment and effectively communicate with potential clients and the rest of the Boudicca Dx. consulting team.
Potential Projects and Responsibilities (to be determined based on intern time and interests)
- Support the development and publishing of Boudicca Dx. educational materials and associated workshops (e.g., “Companion Diagnostics Workshop”, “Global IVD School”, “Regulatory Academy”, “Final FDA Laboratory Developed Test Rule Compliance”, etc.), execution and support promotion of global workshops (scheduling, publishing materials, social media marketing, etc.)
- Support the development and publishing of Boudicca Dx. eCommerce templates on the company website, e.g., regulatory documentation templates
- Manage social media marketing campaigns, e.g., Twitter and LinkedIn, promoting Boudicca Dx. services
- Outreach to local potential clients informing them of Boudicca Dx offerings
- Perform regulatory data analytics and publishing of company white papers with regulatory science insights to support development of unique and innovative regulatory strategies
- Review and Quality Control regulatory submission content (medical writing)
- Review and Quality Control client presentations, publications and reports (medical writing)
- Review precision medicine test validation reports and provide feedback to Boudicca Dx consulting team
- Support internal regulatory intelligence database, e.g., compilation of public files on precision medicine testing strategies, e.g., public regulatory drug and device reviews, press releases, etc.
- Monitor release of regulatory guidances; compare draft and final guidances and report findings to team
- Attend public regulatory workshops and report back findings and discussions to the consulting team
- Execute scientific research projects to support client projects, e.g., literature reviews and compilations, database searches (e.g., clinical trials.gov), preliminary competitive intelligence on platforms and companies
- Attend client meetings and record meeting minutes
Qualifications
- Strong analytical capabilities: highly proficient in Excel, Powerpoint & Word
- Creativity in terms of seeking out and utilizing a wide variety of information sources
- Strong project management and organizational skills
- Previous experience working in biopharma or at a life sciences company is a plus but not necessary
- Understanding of biology and genetics especially as they relate to human disease processes, pharmacology, cell signaling, molecular biology, etc. is a plus
- Authorized to work in the US
Characteristics
- Startup mindset – willingness to grow, adapt quickly, and take on new roles as the needs of the company change
- Collaborator – very comfortable working within multi-disciplinary teams across multiple simultaneous projects
- Business-minded – oriented towards client needs and delivery of actionable insights while being conscious of time and resource constraints
- Curious – interested in digging deep into non-intuitive findings to extract meaning, while remaining focused on the question at hand
Internship
- Internship will run December 1, 2024- February 28, 2025, with the opportunity to extend pending review.
- Internship is paid, part-time (8-10 hours per week )
Location
Boudicca Dx., LLC is based in Brentwood, TN. This position will be remote with an in-person meeting at least once a week.
Applications due by noon, Thursday, November 14, 2024
To apply:
- Fill out the following ASPIRE Internship Application found here: https://redcap.link/ASPIREInternship_Application
- Submit a resume and cover letter at the RedCap link above. Please submit documents as pdfs with your last name_Boudicca_Resume_Sp 2025 or last name_Boudicca_coverletter_Sp 2025
- Set up a meeting with Ashley Brady at (ashley.brady@vanderbilt.edu) prior to the application deadline.
Your information will then be passed along to the organization who will contact you directly to schedule an interview.
For further questions, please contact Ashley Brady (ashley.brady@vanderbilt.edu).
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Eligibility requirements
- Applicants must be a current Vanderbilt University PhD student or a current postdoctoral fellow.
- All PhD students must have completed all coursework for their degree prior to the start of the internship.
- Biomedical PhD students must also have passed their qualifying exams before the application deadline.
- Students and postdocs may not participate in more than one internship at a time. More than one application may be submitted at a single time, but only one position can be accepted.
- If you are not in a department supported by the BRET office, we will also require that you complete a form guaranteeing PI approval to participate in this program. Please contact Ashley Brady at ashley.brady@vanderbilt.edu for more information.
- If you are an international student or postdoctoral fellow, your visa status may affect your work eligibility. Please contact Ashley Brady (ashley.brady@vanderbilt.edu) to discuss this further.
- Must be authorized to work in the US