Potential Greater Boston Area Practicum Locations

The Pharm Program does not endorse these groups and it can not be assumed that internship/practicum opportunities are always available within these organizations. The below list is solely a guide to well established, successful local companies in the pharmaceuticals sector.

Company

City

Focus

Abbott Laboratories

Worcester

Drug development

Alkermes 

Cambridge

Biotech

Analogic

Peabody

Medical imaging

Athena Diagnostics

Marlborough

Diagnostic testing

Biogen 

Cambridge

Interventional cardiology, targeted cancer, inflammatory disorders

Boston Scientific Corporation

Quincy

Diagnostic imaging, informatics, devices

Charles River Laboratories

Newton

CRO supporting drug discovery and early development

EMD Millipore 

Billerica

Bioscience, membrane-separation technology

EMD Serono, Inc

Rockland

Pharmaceuticals

Genzyme 

Cambridge

Drugs for rare inherited diseases

Haemonetics

Braintree

Blood processing devices

Hologic

Marlborough

Diagnostics

ImmunoGen, Inc.

Waltham

Anti-cancer drugs

Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc.

North Billerica

Imaging devices

Medtronic

Littleton

Medical products

Milennium: Takeda Oncology

Cambridge

Cancer therapeutics

Nova Biomedical Corporation

Waltham

Medical lab devices

Novartis 

Cambridge

Pharmaceuticals, eye care, generic medicine

PAREXEL International

Waltham

CRO, supporting drug development

Philips Healthcare

Framingham

Imaging, informatics, home health care

Sanofi

Cambridge

Vaccines and drugs

Shire

Lexington

Drugs for rare diseases

Smith & Nephew

Andover

Devices, imaging systems

Sunovion Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Marlborough

Pharmaceuticals, genomics, proteomics, informatics, devices

Vertex

Boston

Hepatitis, drug development

Zoll Medical Corporation

Chelmsford

Resuscitation devices