Pharmacy Student (4th year undergraduate) experiential learning workplace placement arranged by APPEL

4 month placement under the preceptorship of an accredited Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland (PSI) Pharmacist.

Student develops experience-based learning and formally assessed by Preceptor on the following PSI Core Competency domains:

1. Personal

2.Professional

3.Organization & management skills

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Placement description as provided to APPEL:

Sanofi is a global life sciences company committed to improving access to healthcare and supporting our patients throughout the continuum of care. From prevention to treatment, Sanofi transforms scientific innovation into healthcare solutions, in human vaccines, rare diseases, multiple sclerosis, oncology, immunology, infectious diseases, diabetes and cardiovascular solutions and consumer healthcare.

We recognise that serving patients who rely on our therapies is a tremendous privilege but also a major responsibility that requires us holding ourselves to the highest standards in everything we do.

We are passionate about fostering new talent. Our Student, Intern and Graduate programmes give participants an opportunity to work with, and learn, from highly skilled people on a variety of projects and processes that will help them to develop a successful and rewarding career in Sanofi.

Manufacturing Science, Analytics & Technology (MSAT) Process Data Science & Digital Transformation - or in short, MSAT DSD - is a transversal team within the Global MSAT organization.

As one glocal (global & local) team, we provide day-to-day expertise to support data driven decision-making, while also fostering innovation and accelerating digital transformation in strategic partnership with our Digital partners.

Our expertise spans across data management and contextualization, mechanistic modelling, statistics, machine learning, (generative) AI, and digital transformation, all of which greatly contribute to MSAT excellence.

This placement within the MSAT DSD team will best suit students who are interested in the use of data and digital tools to enable fast data-driven decision making to accelerate product launches for our technical teams.

The placement offers the opportunity to work with a small team of dedicated scientists focused on data/digital innovations & excellence, aiming to guarantee acceleration and securing launches & improvement as well as sustainability for our current processes.

The student will work on an agreed MSAT business initiative using one of the following digital tools

· (generative) Artificial Intelligence to enable faster report writing

· in-silico modelling to reduce risk and accelerate process development

Student will gain insights to the development and industrialization of medicines used for rare diseases, rare blood disorders and immuno-oncology indications. The student will learn how digital tools are used within Biopharma to accelerate the technology transfer of new products and provide best in class manufacturing and QC support for commercial products

The student will have the opportunity to present an overview of their placement and lessons learned to the Management Team.

The student will be precepted by David O’Grady, a pharmacist with > 25 years experience and currently working in the area of Digital Transformation for Drug Product medicines.

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Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let’s be those people.

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