Internship: Gvgh Support Intern, Italy, 2025

**Site Name**: Italy - Siena
**Posted Date**: Jun 26 2025

**Posting Title: Internship: GVGH Support Intern, Italy, 2025**

**Help us get ahead of disease together with our GH VxR&D GVGH Clinical Dev & Regulatory Affairs team**

**Education required**: Scientific background;

**Language requirement**: Written and spoken fluency in English

**Expected Start date**: September 2025

**Internship period**: 3 months

**Internship Type**: Curricular

A GSK internship offers you the opportunity to kickstart your career - to take on a real role with genuine impact You’ll take on challenging, serious work on live projects or assignments. You’ll also get to learn from us, develop your skills and gain valuable experience for wherever the future takes you.

The GSK Vaccines Institute for Global Health works to develop new vaccines for diseases most prevalent in the developing world. GVGH is a key component of GSK’s commitment to Global Health - specifically, tackling infectious diseases that affect children in the developing world, focusing on where we have scientific expertise and where the science is promising.

**What will you do?**

**Scope of the internship**:Support the set-up of GSK Vaccines Institute for Global Health (GVGH) clinical trial in a LMIC in Africa.

**Project description**: GVGH developed a new vaccine aimed at preventing infectious diseases in infants and older age groups and is responsible to conduct Proof of Concept (PoC) clinical trials.

The intern selected for this project, will support clinical operations activities, as required for the set-up of a Ph2 clinical study aimed to characterize the safety and immunogenicity profile of the new vaccine in infants in a LMIC in Africa. The final goal of the early phase study is to obtain human clinical data to characterize the safety and immunogecnity profile of the vaccine and to support the progression of clinical development.

**Why is this research important for GVGH/GSK**:This project will hugely support the development of a new vaccine which is aligned with GSK/GVGH overall Global Health objectives. The execution of this clinical study will provide safety and immunogenicity data that will be the basis for further development of a vaccine for endemic regions of the world.

**Competencies the intern will develop thanks to the internship experience**:Learn the basics of clinical research and vaccines development, how to work in adherence to ICH guidelines, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and applicable regulations. Support development of documentation required for clinical activities as for applicable procedures and guidelines.

**Group members**: As the intern will be hosted in GVGH clinical development and regulatory affairs department, there will be joint supervision and tutoring of the fellow by GVGH clinical and regulatory associates. The intern will have several cross-functional activities and interactions with GVGH colleagues from different functional groups. Interaction with GSK (data management group, public disclosure, medical governance, Quality) is also planned for.

**Let’s do this**

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**Why GSK?**

**Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.**

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose - to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together - so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns - as an organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves - feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.

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