To gain hands-on experience in biomedicine, conduct hypothesis-driven research on a topic of your choosing, learn directly from physician-scientists, and improve your technical laboratory skills.
The internship will run from June 2, 2025 - August 8, 2025. Prior to starting the internship, interns must complete several lab safety training and complete onboarding paperwork. The exact timeline may vary depending on the research being conducted.
- Weeks 1-2: Familiarize yourself with the lab. Work with your mentor to develop a research question/hypothesis. Provide context for the medical problem and unmet need you are addressing.
- Weeks 3-4: Determine methods and materials needed to investigate your hypothesis.
- Weeks 5-6: Conduct data collection.
- Weeks 7-8: Analyze results.
- Weeks 9-10: Summarize results, draw conclusions, and prepare final presentation.
- Week 10: Present your findings at final presentation symposium.
Interns are expected to report to the College of Medicine – Phoenix in-person Monday-Friday throughout the 10-week internship. Interns are expected to embody professionalism, adaptability, intellectual curiosity, good communication, and willingness to collaborate.
Mentors and lab members are expected to provide guidance and support for their intern’s research process. They serve as subject matter experts and seasoned investigators that will help provide structure throughout the internship. They are also expected to discuss education/career paths with their interns.
Lab experience is not required, but it is important that selected interns have completed college-level science courses, particularly biology and chemistry.
No, this program requires interns to be current undergraduate students or recent graduates in a gap year.
The letter of recommendation should be completed by a professor/mentor that can speak to the applicant’s abilities as a researcher and problem-solver.
No, this program does not provide housing and there is no student housing on this campus. Please ensure you have a local housing option (housing in Phoenix or the surrounding cities) if you choose to apply.
No. If interns choose to park in the parking garage, they are responsible for the cost. Free street parking is available around campus.
Interns are paid a stipend of $4,000 throughout the summer.
No, interns must be present for the entire duration of the internship unless there are unforeseen circumstances.
Internship alumni research project titles include:
- Does alpha 2 Antiplasmin (a2AP+/+) Affect Outcomes After Ischemic Stroke? By Aidée Beltran Quiroz
- Role of SGK1 in Cardiac Hypertrophy by Amy Cai
- Utilizing Machine Learning to Measure Mice Poses by Iosef Perez
- Endothelial Senescence in the Pathogenesis of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension by Rogelio Miranda Mora
- The Cervicovaginal Environment of Endometrial Cancer by Eiven Mugo
- Exploring Binding Selectivity Between β-Parvin and FAK for Paxillin Mimetics by Kenny Phan
- Aging with Traumatic Brain Injury: Profiles for Neuropathology in Behaviorally Relevant Thalamocortical Circuitry of Male and Female Rats by Avantika Mitbander
- The Effect of MMP-9 Inhibitors on the Extent of Damage and Disability Caused by Intracerebral Hemorrhage by Ananya Lakhotia
- Epithelial Cell Structure in Mouse Models of ACDMPV Treated with FOXF1 Transcription Factor by Anesa Ali
- An Exploration on the Effectiveness of Vaginal Swabs in Detecting Adenomyosis by Claire Njuguna
- T Cell Memory Responses to Novel Peptides in Coccidioidomycosis by Farhan Babur
- The Role of Paxillin and Actin Filaments in Liver Fibrosis by Jimmy Ndayikengurukiye
- Role of ATF6 in Cardiac Myocytes by Jyolna Behera
- Effects of Transient Angiotensin Receptor Blocker (ARB) Treatment in Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats (SHR) by Karla Fonseca-Pardo
- Rosiglitazone Induced GK expression of Hepatocytes by Naomi Markowitz
- Rare Variants in Negative Symptom Schizophrenia by Sofia Prevatt
- Creating Machine Learning Models to Predict Animal Poses and Behavioral Events during the Resident Intruder Test by Sophie Wallace
- The Roles of Estrogen Receptor α-Signaling in Kisspeptin Neurons on Reproductive Regulation in Adult Mice by Yashi Soni
- Bromodomain Containing Protein 4 (BRD4) in Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells: Generation and Validation of BRD4 Knock-Out Mice by Evan Swarup.