Biostatistics Internship

About Summit:

Summit Therapeutics Inc. is a biopharmaceutical oncology company with a mission focused on improving quality of life, increasing potential duration of life, and resolving serious unmet medical needs. At Summit, we believe in building a team of world class professionals who are passionate about this mission, and it is our people who drive this mission to reality. Summit’s core values include integrity, passion for excellence, purposeful urgency, collaboration, and our commitment to people. Our employees are truly the heart and soul of our culture, and they are invaluable in shaping our journey toward excellence.

Summit’s team is inspired to touch and help change lives through Summit’s clinical studies in the field of oncology. Summit has multiple global Phase 3 clinical studies, including:

Non-small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)

• HARMONi: Phase 3 clinical study which was intended to evaluate ivonescimab combined with chemotherapy compared to placebo plus chemotherapy in patients with EGFR-mutated, locally advanced or metastatic non-squamous NSCLC who were previously treated with a 3rd generation EGFR TKI.

• HARMONi-3: Phase 3 clinical study which is intended to evaluate ivonescimab combined with chemotherapy compared to pembrolizumab combined with chemotherapy in patients with first-line metastatic NSCLC.

• HARMONi-7: Phase 3 clinical study which is intended to evaluate ivonescimab monotherapy compared to pembrolizumab monotherapy in patients with first-line metastatic NSCLC.

Colorectal Cancer (CRC)

• HARMONi-GI3: Phase 3 clinical study intended to evaluate ivonescimab in combination with chemotherapy compared with bevacizumab plus chemotherapy.

Ivonescimab is an investigational therapy not presently approved by any regulatory authority other than China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA). Summit is headquartered in Miami, Florida, and has additional offices in California, New Jersey, the UK, and Ireland.

Overview of Role:

This internship provides hands on experience at the intersection of biostatistics, bioinformatics, and scientific literature research. The intern will support data driven biomedical or public health projects by assisting with statistical analysis, computational workflows, and evidence gathering from peer reviewed sources. The role is well suited for students interested in applying quantitative methods to biological data and contributing to research outputs such as manuscripts, abstracts, and internal reports.

What intern will gain:

• Experience integrating biostatistical and bioinformatics methods in real research settings.
• Skills in scientific literature evaluation and evidence synthesis.
• Opportunities to contribute to manuscripts, posters, or conference abstracts.
• Mentorship from interdisciplinary teams and exposure to research workflows from data acquisition to publication.
• Strengthened programming, analytical, and scientific communication skills.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Article and literature research — Conduct targeted searches of applicable clinical research, retrieving protocols and statistical analysis plans.
• Bioinformatics support — Assist with processing and analyzing biological datasets (e.g., genomic, transcriptomic, proteomic, or clinical omics data) using tools such as R/Bioconductor, Python, or command line workflows.
• Statistical analysis — Investigate descriptive and inferential methodologies at the direction of biostatisticians, support model development/ implementation, and contribute to reproducible analytical pipelines via Quarto/ RMarkdown.
• Data and project management — Assisting with cleaning, organizing datasets to be used in exploratory methodology implementations, maintain documentation for methodology implementations.
• Collaboration — Work with biostatisticians, bioinformaticians, to support project goals.
• All other duties as assigned

Experience, Education and Specialized Knowledge and Skills:

• Enrollment in or recent graduate in a degree program in Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, Statistics, Data Science, Public Health, Biology, or a related field.
• Coursework in statistical inference, regression, bioinformatics and at least one programming language.
• Experience with R, Python, or similar analytical tools.
• Ability to read and interpret scientific literature and summarize complex information clearly.
• Strong attention to detail and interest in biological or health related data.
• Travel

Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor. The total compensation package for this position may also include bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable variable compensation.

Summit does not accept referrals from employment businesses and/or employment agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site. All employment businesses/agencies are required to contact Summit’s Talent Acquisition team at recruiting@smmttx.com to obtain prior written authorization before referring any candidates to Summit.

Summit Therapeutics Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer and takes pride in creating and maintaining diverse environment. We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training or promotion or any other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.