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Do you have a Biology, Animal Science or related Life Science degree?

Nonclinical drug development is a complex, regulatory-driven process designed primarily to assess the safety and viability of new molecular entities. The goal of our nonclinical studies is to determine which compounds have the greatest probability of success, and to build a solid scientific foundation that spans all stages of clinical development.

Covance has worked with a wide range of industries conducting toxicology testing, as well as developing new screening and investigative assays to speed discovery

Toxicology & Safety Assessment

Manage, interpret and report results for studies conducted to determine safety and efficacy of pharmaceutical products.

Scientific & Operational Toxicology: Mammalian toxicology, Genetic toxicology, Dose Formulations, In-life Toxicology (lab operations), Sample Management, Flow Cytometry Center, Pathology Services, Veterinary Medicine (Toxicology, Infusion, Immunotoxicology, Safety Pharmacology, Ocular & DART)

Discovery & Translational Services

Provides an integrated services approach that bridges Discovery and Development, addresses key drug development questions, and enables clear go/no go decisions, while decreasing cycle times and increasing productivity. Our experienced scientific staff actively engages across functions to combine knowledge in safety, efficacy, and translational sciences with technical expertise to help define the question at hand and provide solutions to client needs from Lead Development through Proof Of Concept to Final Registration.

Discovery & Translational Services includes: Biomarker Center of Excellence; Covance Genomics Laboratory; Antibody Products & Immunology Services; and Discovery Services (Lead Optimization Toxicology, ADME Toxicology, Dose Formulations, In Vivo Pharmacology, Molecular and Anatomic Imaging, Pathology, and Veterinary Medicine)

Each year, hundreds of recent graduates choose to begin their career with Covance. At Covance, you can make a difference, by helping to deliver life-saving and life-enhancing medicines to people around the world.

How do I join the Covance team?

Create your personal talent record today and be considered for openings when you graduate! Post your resume and identify career goals through job searches that are personalized to you. Graduation day too far away – not at Covance! Our online system allows you to save and store resumes, personal profiles and career searches.

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Do you have a Chemistry, Biochemistry or related Life Science degree?

Covance, one of the world's largest and most comprehensive drug development services companies, has the people, global resources and problem-solving culture to respond to pharmaceutical and biotechnology clients' toughest drug development challenges.

Biotechnology Services

Complying fully to GLP & cGMP and providing a range of analytical techniques and services to support our clients in pre-clinical safety assessment, this department has significant experience in regulatory compliance. We also provide support to clients that need to perform batch release under GMP within Europe and the United States. Extensive work is done in protein characterization, stability and degradation as well as in virological safety of biopharmaceuticals, molecular biology and cell biology.

Drug Metabolism

An understanding of absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion characteristics is an essential part of the pharmaceutical discovery and development process.

Immunochemistry

Providing a comprehensive range of techniques and processes for assessing critical parameters in the development of biologic therapeutic agents for both preclinical and clinical trials best describes Immunochemistry. Common techniques include: ELISA, Electrochemiluminescence (ECL), Surface plasma resonance, Radioimmunassay (RIA)

Bioanalytical Services

The focus of bioanalysis is to provide a quantitative measure of the active drug and/or its metabolite(s). Samples may be derived from cell culture media or from other biological matrices (plasma, serum, or urine etc). An appropriate Bioanalytical technique is required to make these measurements. Selection of the correct technique may depend on the molecule's chemical nature, molecular weight, and structure.

cGMP Pharmaceutical Development Services

Demonstrating a product's safety, efficacy and purity to support regulatory submission is the ultimate goal of pharmaceutical product developers and manufacturers. The chemistry, manufacturing and controls process requires flawless analytical data in accordance with cGMP and other regulatory standards.

Each year, hundreds of recent graduates choose to begin their career with Covance. At Covance, you can make a difference, by helping to deliver life-saving and life-enhancing medicines to people around the world.

How do I join the Covance team?

Create your personal talent record today and be considered for openings when you graduate! Post your resume and identify career goals through job searches that are personalized to you. Graduation day too far away – not at Covance! Our online system allows you to save and store resumes, personal profiles and career searches.

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Do you have a Food Science, Nutrition Science, Chemistry, Biochemistry or related Life Science degree?

Advancements in the way food and dietary supplements are developed, packaged, and prepared require flexibility, innovation, and a broad scientific understanding of those implications on analytical data. Covance has over 70 years of experience in food analysis and has built a reputation for scientific and regulatory expertise.

The Nutritional Chemistry & Food Safety business focuses on assisting clients with their various analytical testing needs for a wide range of products. A majority of the testing pertains to Nutritional Labeling verification and employs many of the current industry standard methods to ensure regulatory compliance. Our work here at Covance plays a vital role in assisting our clients to formulate, develop, and distribute their various products to consumers world wide.

Food & Dietary Supplements

As a full-service laboratory, we analyze food, dietary supplement and biotechnology products for: Nutrients - Botanicals - Pesticide Residues - Contaminants - Microbiology - Raw Material/Ingredients Stability - Dietary Supplement - Product Container/Enclosure - Lipids - Dietary Fiber - Vitamins - Cholesterol - Micro vitamin - Bacteriology - Phytochemicals

Method Development & Validation

The process of method engineering is composed of many components that serve to establish benchmarks for acceptance criteria and ultimately determine the validity of a specific method. The adoption of validation standards against which methods are developed ensures that methods represent the practice of good science and are robust enough to be used on a global scale.

Each year, hundreds of recent graduates choose to begin their career with Covance. At Covance, you can make a difference, by helping to deliver life-saving and life-enhancing medicines to people around the world.

How do I join the Covance team?

Create your personal talent record today and be considered for openings when you graduate! Post your resume and identify career goals through job searches that are personalized to you. Graduation day too far away – not at Covance! Our online system allows you to save and store resumes, personal profiles and career searches.

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Do you have a Medical Technology or related Life Science/Medical degree?

Since 1986, Covance Central Laboratory Services (CCLS) has been the world's leading provider of clinical trial laboratory services, dedicated to testing specimens and reporting data. We manage clinical trials conducted all over of the world!

Our central laboratories use state-of-the-art processes for collecting, shipping, testing and storing laboratory specimens. Our process delivers fast, high-quality data — from protocol and visit-specific patient kits produced in our global automated kit production line, to computerized, bar-coded systems for testing and tracking specimens. Our customers receive real-time, web-based access to our laboratory test results and reports, resulting in Covance's position as a world leader in central laboratory services.

Covance is a catalyst that enables medicine to change and save lives. Our project teams are passionate about delivering excellent customer service and unfaltering science. Our whole team takes pride in and has passion for what we do. As an integral part of this team, our employees make a difference in the lives of millions.

Each year, hundreds of recent graduates choose to begin their career with Covance. At Covance, you can make a difference, by helping to deliver life-saving and life-enhancing medicines to people around the world.

How do I join the Covance team?

Create your personal talent record today and be considered for openings when you graduate! Post your resume and identify career goals through job searches that are personalized to you. Graduation day too far away – not at Covance! Our online system allows you to save and store resumes, personal profiles and career searches.

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Do you have a Nursing or related Healthcare degree?

Covance clinics offer opportunity for healthcare professionals to use their expertise in a fresh, new way. This is your chance to stay in the healthcare field and enjoy the variety that clinical research studies can offer. No two studies are alike, make each day unique and exciting.

Clinical Pharmacology

This group is responsible for study unit activities in the conduct of clinical trials with emphasis on the safety and welfare of study participants.

Phase I studies are the initial human trials referred to as first-in-human trials that provide a preliminary evaluation of drug safety, tolerance and pharmacokinetics. As the drug candidate progresses through clinical development, additional clinical pharmacology studies, such as drug-drug interaction, food effect, AME (Absorption, Metabolism and Excretion) and special population studies will be conducted. The dedicated team of healthcare professionals include: Nurses, Techs, Study Coordinators, Study Managers, QA/QC, participant recruitment, project managers, project coordinators, call center and support services.

Early Clinical Development (ECD)

This group is dedicated to rapidly and cost-effectively conducting smaller, focused PhaseIb/IIa studies. The attention is on quality data and quick turn-around, as well as relevant expertise, patient access and diagnostic technologies. ECD studies conducted are known as Proof-of-concept studies that are classically seen as those that demonstrate clinical relevance of a novel NME intended to treat a disease through establishing efficacy. However, the objective of these trials has expanded: Studies are designed to generate go/no go criteria from patient populations by also looking at safety, tolerability, PK/PD profiling and commercial viability.

This team includes: Project Management and Phase I CRAs.

CDARO (Clinical Data, Analysis, and Reporting Organization)

This group ensures timely and accurate clinical trial data needed to make sound decisions about safety, tolerability and pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic properties of a compound, through work with integrated databases, reports and data submissions.

This team includes: Data managers, SAS programmers, medical writers, statisticians, project coordinators and project managers.

Each year, hundreds of recent graduates choose to begin their career with Covance. At Covance, you can make a difference, by helping to deliver life-saving and life-enhancing medicines to people around the world.

How do I join the Covance team?

Create your personal talent record today and be considered for openings when you graduate! Post your resume and identify career goals through job searches that are personalized to you. Graduation day too far away – not at Covance! Our online system allows you to save and store resumes, personal profiles and career searches.

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