Internship / Master thesis project

Job description

Do you enjoy working with healthcare data and developing methods that bring societal value? Do you want to participate in research that can benefit patients around the world? Uppsala Monitoring Centre (UMC), a dynamic non-profit organisation with the mission to improve medicine safety globally, is opening a position for a 6-month internship or master thesis project starting September 2026 or later.: We have a project proposal in place, but you will be actively involved in shaping the project’s goals and determining the methods to be used. Project: following up a signal identified in VigiBase using Swedish register data Pharmacovigilance (PV) systems are a key component in drug safety monitoring, enabling early identification of potential adverse events related to medicines. Traditionally, the safety monitoring of approved medicines is relying on adverse event reporting systems that collect and analyse case report data to generate hypotheses on previously unknown or incompletely understood causal relationships between a medicine and an adverse event. These hypotheses are often referred to as “signals”. While adverse event reporting systems continue to inform most regulatory decision...