2025 Product Development, Science & Technology (PDS&T) Graduate Intern – Combination Products, Aesthetics, and Devices

Company Description

About AbbVie

AbbVie’s mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people’s lives across several key therapeutic areas: immunology, oncology, neuroscience, eye care, virology, women’s health, and gastroenterology, in addition to products and services across its Allergan Aesthetics portfolio.

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Job Description

Combination Products, Aesthetics, and Devices Intern Overview

Envision spending your summer working with energetic colleagues and inspirational leaders, all while gaining world-class experience in one of the most dynamic organizations in the pharmaceutical industry. This is a reality for AbbVie Interns.

Product Development, Science and Technology (PDS&T) is the intersection of technical excellence and business impact.  We are champions of product innovation and process knowledge to solve AbbVie's most complex technical challenges to successfully support late-phase products, commercialize our pipeline, ensure the quality and efficacy of our products, make a direct impact on patient health and well-being.

As an intern on the Combination Products, Aesthetics, and Devices team, you would focus on a technical project to support product development. The focus will be polymeric materials-based gel cross-linking and degradation, and polymer rheology from the manufacturing process in melt rheology mixing and rheology characterization with and without biocompatible fillers in the studied gel materials. The selected intern will preferably have knowledge in the biomaterials of hyaluronic acid (HA) polymeric materials and calcium hydroxyapatite (CaHAp) inorganic beads. The activities include, but are not limited to process development, material characterization, technical investigations, robustness improvements, and innovative technologies.

Key responsibilities include:

• Demonstrate knowledge in polymeric-based materials and biomaterial inorganic beads for medical, aesthetic, and pharmaceutical product applications.
• Enable study design and conduct experimental work in polymer cross-linking and degradation for product development and dynamic rheology characterization.
• Leverage knowledge in filled bioinorganic particles in a polymeric material system and its mechanisms and impacts on cross-linking and degradation.
• Enable materials rheology variability characterization in storage and loss modulus, and viscosity through rheometer and analyzing the experimental data.
• Characterize, assess, and understand filler surface chemistry, pH, morphology, and their interactions with its based polymeric materials.
• Analyze the experimental data, identify the observed trend, summarize the results, organize the slide deck, and present to stakeholders.

• Demonstrate scientific initiative and creativity in research and development activities.
• Develop and execute laboratory work, drawing conclusions and deviations.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications 

• Currently enrolled in university, pursuing a Master’s or PhD in Material Sciences, Chemical Engineering, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or other related field of study.
• Must be enrolled in university for at least one semester following the internship.
• Strong scientific background with ability to design studies for characterization and optimization of formulation and surface properties, process controls, and container systems.
• Ability to perform routine and complex tasks competently and independently, ensuring the generation of reliable and consistent results.
• Ability to maintain compliance with all applicable policies and procedures and understand and adhere to corporate standards regarding code of conduct, safety, appropriate handling of materials and GxP compliance, where applicable.  
• Excellent verbal, written, presentation, and interpersonal skills required. Ability to communicate concepts and problems in terms that are understandable to all levels of the organization, including senior leadership.

Preferred Qualifications

• Pursuing a PhD with an expected graduation date between December 2025 – June 2026.
• Previous research/experience with wet lab, polymer chemistry