Atabay İlaç Offers Internship Opportunities to University Students

Atabay Pharmaceutical, which develops public-university-industry cooperation projects with 10 universities in Turkey, offers internship opportunities to university students from across the country at its facilities in Acıbadem and Gebze. Opening long-term internship positions, Atabay also continues doctoral programs in industry by receiving TÜBİTAK 2244 projects. Atabay Pharmaceutical, one of Turkey's most established pharmaceutical companies, has opened its factories in Acıbadem and Gebze to university students from across the country. Atabay offered internship opportunities in summer to more than 50 students in the departments of Microbiology, Biotechnology, Quality Assurance, Quality Control, Synthesis R&D, Regulatory Affairs, Stability, Pharmaceutical Industry, Strategy, and Pharmaceutical Technological Developments. Doğan Taşkent, Head of Chemistry R&D and Innovation at Atabay, said that with the revised internship regulations this year, they will accept applications online, which will give them the opportunity to reach many more students, and continued as follows: [caption id="attachment_145034" align="aligncenter"] Doğan Taşkent, Head of Chemistry R&D and Innovation at Atabay[/caption] "Our company has also opened long-term internship positions. We will particularly accept students in chemical synthesis, strategy, stability, regulatory affairs, and quality control departments. We are opening separate quotas for regions far from our centers." Atabay Pharmaceutical also supports its internship program with training such as: Pharmaceutical Industry and Drug Development Value Chain; Pharmaceutical Sector Market Analysis – API, FDF, Biotechnology; GMP Requirements and Processes in Production; and Sales/Marketing.

We aim to be one of Turkey's strategic institutions in public-university-industry-start-up cooperation

Doğan Taşkent, explaining that they continue doctoral programs in industry by receiving TÜBİTAK 2244 projects, stated: "With TÜBİTAK 2244, the aim is to develop qualified human resources with doctoral degrees needed in industry through university-industry cooperation, to encourage the employment of doctoral researchers in industry, and to develop university-industry cooperation. We aim to be a company that enables working under the same roof with start-ups and academics that develop and conduct R&D on innovative chemical, plant-based, and biotechnological active pharmaceutical ingredients, finished pharmaceutical products and vaccines, and that holds the end-to-end value chain in this field. Within this framework, we accept as our basic philosophy developing the strategic products necessary for our country and creating social and economic value, while also being able to provide treatment to everyone in need without harming humanity and all of nature. Thanks to cooperation-oriented working methods, we aim to be one of Turkey's strategic institutions in public-university-industry-start-up cooperation by combining academic knowledge and start-up concepts and innovative approaches with industry's production and development capabilities," he explained. Turkey's 10 universities with which Atabay develops public-university-industry cooperation projects work with TÜBİTAK Marmara Research Center on strategic R&D projects. Through its membership in the University-Industry Cooperation Center Platform – ÜSİMP, Atabay strengthens its collaborations with many University Technology Transfer Offices and Technoparks in our country.