Summer Research Experiences
Lists and Directories of Summer Research Experiences
- National Science Foundation (NSF) - Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs)
NOTE: Please also see Resources for Students Applying for REUs. - National Institutes of Health (NIH) Summer Internships
- American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC)
- Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience (FUN) - Neuroscience Internships Listing
- American Physiological Society (APS)
- Biomedical Science Careers Program
- SACNAS (Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science)
- Boston College EagleLink Service (sign in required)
Specific Programs
- Amgen Scholars Program
Note: Amgen has multiple sites available at research universities. Application deadline depends on specific site. - Baylor College of Medicine - SMART program
- Summer Medical and Research Training - Houston, TX
- Brigham and Women's Hospital STARS Program
- Summer Training in Academic Research and Scholarship
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- Cold Spring Harbor (NY)
- Columbia University IGERT on Optical Techniques for Actuation, Sensing & Imaging of Biological Systems
- Cincinnati Children's Hospital - Summer Undergraduate Research
- Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology Summer Institute
- Harvard Summer Research Program in Kidney Medicine
- Harvard Stem Cell Institute
- Joslin Diabetes Center Summer Research
- Johns Hopkins University Summer Research
- The Jackson Lab - Summer Biomedical Research (Bar Harbor, ME)
- Sackler Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, NYU School of Medicine
- Marine Biological Laboratory
- Mayo Clinic Summer Research Program (Rochester, MN)
- MIT Lincoln Laboratory Summer Research Program
- NASA Undergraduate Research Program
- Nemours / Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children (Wilmington, DE)
- Mass General Hospital - Summer Research Trainee Program
- Mass General Hospital - Wellman Center for Photomedicine
- Roswell Park Cancer Institution Summer Research Program (Buffalo, NY)
- Thomas Jefferson University Research Program (Philadelphia, PA)
- University of Massachusetts Medical School (Worcester, MA)
- University of Connecticut Health Center
- University of Texas Southwestern Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences - SURF program
- University of California, San Francisco Summer Research Training Program
- University of Wisconsin, Madison Summer Research Program in Biology
- Wadsworth Laboratories (New York State Department of Health)
Biotech Opportunities
Environmental Sciences
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
- NSF REU sites focusing on Ocean Sciences
Abroad
- RISE (Research Internships in Science & Engineering) (Germany)
- John Innes Centre and Sainsbury Laboratory (United Kingdom)
- Institut Pasteur (Paris)
- The Atlantis Fellowship (Europe and Latin America)