11 Companies To Consider For An Internship In Bioinformatics

Date: 11/01/2025

One year to go in your degree and you want to both get a good idea of what working in industry is like, and you want to bolster your chances of finding work when you graduate.
One word, internships. Internships can be very competitive, but that shouldn’t stop you from applying!

Here’s a list of 11 Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical companies to begin your search:

# Organisation Industry type
1 GSK Pharmaceutical company
2 InstaDeep AI company
3 Novartis Pharmaceutical company
4 Recursion Pharmaceutical company
5 Medpace Clinical Research company
6 Oxford Nanopore Technologies Biotechnology company
7 Qiagen Biotechnology company
8 Immunocore Biotechnology company
9 Illumina Biotechnology company
10 AstraZeneca Pharmaceutical company
11 10x Genomics Biotechnology company
*Note that these companies won't always have internships available, and if they are available they're typically available during the summer months. And of course, some are opportunities to work for a year in industry, so you might be taking a gap year or you could integrate it with your degree.


Some good points about internships are made in this post on this forum:





God bless you in your vocational pursuits!

Author: Dolapo Ajayi BSc MSc