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How young people benefit from Swiss apprenticeships

Computational biologist Jitao David Zhang says that the country’s vocational training programme teaches key work and life skills.
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  1. Jitao David Zhang

    1. Jitao David Zhang is a computational biologist working at Roche Innovation Center Basel, F. Hoffmann-La Roche, Basel, Switzerland.

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Giulia Ferraina and Jannick Lippuner, both 19, are my latest apprentices in the pharmaceutical research unit of F. Hoffmann-La Roche, a global company, at its headquarters in Basel, Switzerland. Both are in their fourth and final year of vocational education and training (VET), specializing in informatics and communication technology. Coaching them, just like discovering drugs, is a rewarding part of my job as a research scientist.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-01102-8

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