ASPIRE Internship Opportunity: Scientific Intern, NashBio (Remote)
ASPIRE Internship Opportunity:
NashBio
Scientific Intern
(Remote)
November 2025- Mid-February 2026 (appx 12 weeks)
About NashBio
NashBio provides access to de-identified clinical information from 4 million participants, sourced from real-world clinical care at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC).
Internship Overview
NashBio is seeking motivated graduate students and post-docs for a part-time, paid internship with our team. This internship offers hands-on experience working with real-world clinical data and collaborating across clinical, product, and operations teams.
The scientific intern will support NashBio’s products and services by developing resources that enable effective use of data access platforms, assisting in the interpretation of real-world clinical data, and contributing to key strategic projects.
The internship will last approximately 12 weeks, with some flexibility around academic commitments.
Internship Details
- Location: Remote (based in Nashville, TN)
- Schedule: Part-time (8-10 hours per week during normal business hours),
12 weeks with the opportunity to extend pending review - Compensation: Competitive, commensurate with experience
Internship Responsibilities
- Contribute to profiling and curating clinical features in structured clinical data
- Assist in creating documentation to support users of real-world clinical data
- Participate in cross-functional collaboration on example data projects and use cases
- Lead additional projects based on interest and skillset (e.g., tracking publications for sales enablement, standardization of existing code in Jupyter notebooks, etc.)
- Deliver a final presentation summarizing key findings, results, and recommendations
Internship Benefits
- Gain exposure to the biotech and real-world data industries
- Develop valuable technical skills relevant to industry and research careers
- Understand the strengths and limitations of real-world clinical data
- Enhance familiarity with research ethics and data compliance requirements through completion of HIPAA and CITI training
- Build competencies in healthcare coding systems (e.g., RxNorm, ICD-CM) and in data standardization models (e.g., OMOP Common Data Model)
Internship Qualifications
- Strong organizational skills
- Strong interest in industry roles, clinical research, or data science
- Excellent communication, organizational, and interpersonal skills
- Self-motivated with a strong sense of initiative and professionalism
- Understanding of biology and genetics especially as they relate to human disease processes, pharmacology, signaling pathways, etc. is a plus
- Experience with data analysis & coding (e.g., SQL, R, Python) is a plus
- Authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship
Applications due Wednesday October 15, 2025 at noon.
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_NashBio_ScientificIntern_Fa 2025
- Set up a meeting with Ashley Brady (ashley.brady@vanderbilt.edu) or Angela Zito (angela.zito@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 Angela Zito (angela.zito@vanderbilt.edu) or Ashley Brady (ashley.brady@vanderbilt.edu).
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For further questions, please contact Ashley Brady (ashley.brady@vanderbilt.edu).
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