*Important Note about External Funding*
If you are considering applying for any external funding (listed here or otherwise),
your grant proposal MUST go through the Office of Medical Student Research.
This will ensure that your grant money will be handled properly and without delay.
Contact us at mssrf@med.wayne.edu or ggilchri@med.wayne.edu

NIH Summer Internship Program in Biomedical Research

https://www.training.nih.gov/programs/sip

Program Description

Summer programs at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) provide an opportunity to spend a summer working at the NIH side-by-side with some of the leading scientists in the world, in an environment devoted exclusively to biomedical research. The NIH consists of the 240-bed Mark O. Hatfield Clinical Research Center and more than 1200 laboratories/research projects located on the main campus in Bethesda, MD, and the surrounding area as well as in Baltimore and Frederick, MD; Research Triangle Park, NC; Hamilton, MT; Framingham, MA; Phoenix, AZ; and Detroit, MI.  NOTE: the number of positions in Hamilton, Framingham, Phoenix, and Detroit is limited.

Prerequisites

The 2017 Summer Internship Program is for students who are sixteen years of age or older by June 15, 2017. To be eligible, candidates must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents. U.S. citizens may apply if they are enrolled at least half-time in high school or an accredited college or university as undergraduate, graduate, or professional students. Students who have been accepted into an accredited college or university program may also apply. Permanent residents must be enrolled in or have been accepted into a high school or an accredited institution or higher education in the U.S. to be eligible.

 

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center- Summer Research Program for Medical Students

https://www.mdanderson.org/education-training/degrees-programs/summer-research-programs/first-year-medical-student-program.html

Program Description

The First-Year Medical Student Program is a 10-week program that offers hands-on experience in biomedical, translational or clinical research. Students who have completed their first year of medical school are eligible to apply.
Students are matched with a mentor from MD Anderson's research or clinical faculty. Participants work alongside the mentor in a lab or clinic on projects designed by faculty to reflect current research. Workshops and lectures provide opportunities to connect with faculty, residents, postdoctoral and clinical fellows, and other participants. Through the program, students assess goals related to careers in cancer research and patient care. The program culminates with a symposium in which participants present talks and posters on their research projects to peers and faculty.

Prerequisites

Students in good academic standing who have completed their first year at an LCME- or COCA-accredited US medical school are eligible to apply. Students should demonstrate an interest in and aptitude for scientific investigation.
Applicants selected for the program must commit to the full 10 weeks and must not have other summer employment. Partial participation is not allowed.
Participants must comply with all institutional policies regarding conduct, academic honesty and lawful behavior.
The program is unable to accept international students.

 

Massachusetts General Hospital Summer Research Trainee Program

http://www.massgeneral.org/mao/education/internship.aspx?id=5

Program Description

Each summer, twenty students are selected from a nationwide competition to join SRTP. Each student is assigned to a specific MGH laboratory, clinical site, health policy, or health services research area where they undertake an original research project under the mentorship and guidance of a Mass General Hospital (MGH) investigator. Assignments are carefully considered and are made with the student's research and career interests in mind. In addition to this unique research experience, students will gain knowledge through weekly didactic seminars, both at the MGH and at Harvard Medical School, attend career development workshops and networking event, and have opportunities for clinical shadowing.

Prerequisites

SRTP seeks students who are interested in pursuing a career in academic medicine or biomedical research and meet the following criteria:

• Member of a group that is underrepresented in medicine (URM)*
• Undergraduate junior or senior, rising 1st year medical student, or 1st year medical student, graduate school student, or post-baccalaureate student (note: freshman and sophomores not eligible) Attended/attending a college or medical school in the US and Puerto Rico.
• US citizens or permanent residents
• If accepted, proof of health insurance required
• *Underrepresented in medicine (URM) for the purpose of this program are those individuals belonging to a particular ethnic or racial group which has been considered by the National Institute of Health (NIH) and the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) to be underrepresented in biomedical research (relative to their numbers in the general population). These groups may include Latino/ Hispanic, African-American/Black, American Indian, Native Hawaiian and Alaskan Natives, among others.

 

TL1 Predoctoral Program- Washington State University School of Medicine St. Louis

https://crtc.wustl.edu/programs/predoctoral/tl1predoc/

Program Description

The TL1 Predoctoral Program at Washington University provides career development for medical and allied healthcare doctoral students through didactic coursework, mentored training, work-in-progress research discussions, journal clubs, and conferences.

Prerequisites

Level of Education
TL1 Predoctoral Program trainees must be enrolled in a clinical doctoral degree program in medicine, physical therapy, occupational therapy, biomedical engineering, social work, pharmacy, audiology and communication sciences, veterinary medicine, or another allied health profession.
Students enrolled in a dual Doctoral/Bachelor's degree program must complete 120 credit hours in their degree program prior to beginning their TL1 appointment.
PhD students are eligible for the Standard TL1 Program, but do not meet program requirements for the Intensive TL1 Program.
Citizenship
Eligible applicants must be citizens or non-citizen nationals of the United States, or have been lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence and have in their possession an Alien Registration Receipt Card (I-151 or I-551) or other legal verification of admission for permanent residence. Non-citizen nationals are persons born in lands that are not States but are under U.S. sovereignty, jurisdiction, or administration (e.g., American Samoa). Individuals on temporary or student visas are not eligible.
Professional Effort
All trainees are required to pursue their research training full-time, normally defined as 40 hours per week.
Federal Funding
Individuals supported by other Federal funds are not eligible for concurrent trainee support to be provided by the TL1 Program.

 

University of Utah Medical Student Research Program

http://medicine.utah.edu/medresearch/

Program Description

The summer Medical Student Research Program (MSRP) is a competitive mentored research program provided to medical students. Students have the opportunity to work with basic science, clinical science, or health care research investigators.

Program goals are:

• To enhance students' research horizons, and
• To help students develop scientific presentation and writing skills

 

NIH Clinical Research Summer Internships

https://www.cc.nih.gov/training/students/summer_internships.html

Program Description

Interested in summer research? Here are a few quick facts:

• The Clinical Center is one of many NIH institutes and centers that participates in the NIH Summer Internship Program.
• The NIH Summer Internship Program is open to high school through professional school students.
• Research opportunities are available throughout the NIH, most of which are located in Bethesda, MD. View this list of other locations throughout the country.
• The Clinical Center, the NIH's research hospital, is one of the research facilities in the NIH Summer Internship Program. At the Clinical Center, interns are placed with various departments such as Bioethics, Research Informatics, Rehabilitation Medicine, Social Work, Nursing, and Radiology and Imaging Sciences.

Prerequisites

Applications consist of a personal statement, letters of reference, and your grades.
Clinical Center (CC) Summer Internship Program offers summer internships to students who are U.S citizens or permanent residents and are currently enrolled in high school, college, graduate programs, and health professional schools including nursing and medicine.

 

NIH Summer Internships

https://www.training.nih.gov/programs/sip

Program Description

Program Description: Summer programs at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) provide an opportunity to spend a summer working at the NIH side-by-side with some of the leading scientists in the world, in an environment devoted exclusively to biomedical research. The NIH consists of the 240-bed Mark O. Hatfield Clinical Research Center and more than 1200 laboratories/research projects located on the main campus in Bethesda, MD, and the surrounding area as well as in Baltimore and Frederick, MD; Research Triangle Park, NC; Hamilton, MT; Framingham, MA; Phoenix, AZ; and Detroit, MI.  NOTE: the number of positions in Hamilton, Framingham, Phoenix, and Detroit is limited.

Prerequisites

Eligibility: The 2017 Summer Internship Program is for students who are sixteen years of age or older by June 15, 2017. To be eligible, candidates must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents. U.S. citizens may apply if they are enrolled at least half-time in high school or an accredited college or university as undergraduate, graduate, or professional students. Students who have been accepted into an accredited college or university program may also apply. Permanent residents must be enrolled in or have been accepted into a high school or an accredited institution or higher education in the U.S. to be eligible.

 

Fulbright Study/Research Award

https://us.fulbrightonline.org/applicants/getting-started

Program Description

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program provides grants for individually designed study/research projects or for English Teaching Assistant Programs.  A candidate will submit a Statement of Grant Purpose defining activities to take place during one academic year in a participating country outside the U.S.
During their grants, Fulbrighters will meet, work, live with and learn from the people of the host country, sharing daily experiences.  The program facilitates cultural exchange through direct interaction on an individual basis in the classroom, field, home, and in routine tasks, allowing the grantee to gain an appreciation of others' viewpoints and beliefs, the way they do things, and the way they think. Through engagement in the community, the individual will interact with their hosts on a one-to-one basis in an atmosphere of openness, academic integrity, and intellectual freedom, thereby promoting mutual understanding.

Prerequisites

• Applicants must be U.S. citizens at the time of application. Permanent residents are not eligible. Please review the Ineligibility section below in relation to the eligibility of dual citizens.
• Applicants must have a conferred bachelor's degree or the equivalent before the start of the grant.
• In the creative and performing arts, four years of professional training and/or experience meets the basic eligibility requirement.
• Applicants must be in good health. Grantees will be required to submit a satisfactory Medical Certificate from a physician.
• Applicants must have sufficient proficiency in the written and spoken language of the host country sufficient to communicate with the people and to carry out the proposed study/research. This is especially important for projects in the social sciences and the humanities.
• Applicants may hold a J.D. at the time of application.
• Doctors of Medicine may receive grants for advanced academic study, but not for internships or residencies. Scholars with an M.D. degree who have completed their formal postgraduate training and propose attachment to a hospital or clinic for the purpose of independent or collaborative research should apply to the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program through the Council for International Exchange of Scholars, www.cies.org. Grants shall not authorize activity for which a license to practice medicine or nursing is required. The Fulbright Program cannot authorize proposals for medical research that involves clinical training, patient care or patient contact.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong preference in the Fulbright U.S. Student Program is for those who have not previously held a Fulbright grant. For the 2018-2019 competition, recipients of grants in 2015-2016,  2016-2017, or 2017-2018 will be at a competitive disadvantage, but are still eligible to apply, provided they continue to meet all other eligibility requirements.
• Preference will be given to applicants whose higher education was undertaken primarily at educational institutions in the United States. Foreign study during the junior year or other periods of undergraduate study that are inte­gral parts of the curricula of American institutions will not be considered a disadvantage.
• Candidates who have not resided or studied in the country to which they are applying for more than six months, not counting undergraduate study abroad are preferred. Duty abroad in the Armed Forces of the United States is not considered disqualifying within the meaning of this section.
• For most programs, applicants who have had extensive previous foreign experience in the host country are at a competitive disadvantage, but are still eligible to apply.