Industrial Placement Student - Biosciences (12 months)
AstraZeneca
Sponsorship status
Hublr has not found sufficiently reliable evidence that sponsorship is available for this specific role.
Last verified: 21 September 2026
12-month industrial placement at AstraZeneca in Cambridge, closing 2 Oct 2026. Sourced 21 Sept 2026.
Full job description
This laboratory-based placement sits in Oncology Bioscience within Oncology R&D, where teams study cancer biology, validate targets and generate preclinical data, and the student learns about experimental work and data recording in a collaborative discovery setting. Applicants must currently be undergraduate or integrated master's students in a biological discipline, with the chance to spend a year in industry starting September 2027. It is a 12-month fixed-term contract in Cambridge, paying a £28,000 base salary plus bonus and flexible benefits, with a start date of 6 September 2027. Applications opened 4 September 2026 and close on 2 October 2026, and AstraZeneca asks for a cover letter in the same file as the CV and discourages applying to several placements. The posting does not mention visa sponsorship or right to work.