Research Opportunities

Summer Research

Opportunities for International Students

This is a select list of summer research opportunities in the life/biomedical sciences available to international students studying in the US. Please see the additional resources available at the Gwen M. Greene Center for Career Education and Connections and through the opportunity databases linked below that allow you to search based on availability to international students:

Pathways to Science searchable summer research database
Select opportunity listings by discipline (compiled by the University of Washington)
Select clinical and health-science opportunity listings (compiled by Swarthmore College)

If you have found a research opportunity and are looking for summer research funding, see the Discover Grant page or the DeKiewiet Summer Research Fellowships in Biology and Medicine funding page, both available to University of Rochester international students.

External Summer Internships

Below is a chart of summer internships outside the University of Rochester open to domestic and international student applicants.

Program	Application Deadline	Eligibility Flags
San Diego Muscle Research Center Undergraduate Summer Student Fellowship	Feb. 17	Current sophomores, juniors, and seniors
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Undergraduate Research program	Jan. 15	Current sophomores and juniors
Harvard Stem Cell Institute Internship Program	Feb. 2	Current first-years, sophomores, and juniors
Janelia/HHMI Summer Scholars Program	Jan. 5	Prior research experience and knowledge of Python, MATLAB, or C++ required
Mayo Clinic and Graduate School Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Biomedical Science	Feb. 1	Current sophomores and juniors
Michigan State University Engineering Summer Research Experience	Reviewed on a rolling basis; typically filled by April 1	GPA 3.2 or higher Current seniors not eligible
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Summer Research Fellowship	March 1	GPA 2.5 or higher
University of Lausanne Summer Research Program in Life Sciences and Technology (Lausanne, Switzerland)	Jan. 31	Current sophomores, juniors, and seniors GPA 3.75 or higher
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Undergraduate Student Scholars Program, Center for Molecular Studies in Digestive and Liver Disease	Jan. 15	Current seniors not eligible
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program	Feb. 9	Current sophomores, juniors, and seniors
Georgia Regents University Student Training And Research (STAR) Program	Feb. 1	Current first-years, sophomores, and juniors GPA 3.0 or higher
DAAD RISE Germany (application support available through the Fellowships Office)	Dec. 15	Current sophomores and juniors
MIT Graduate Education Summer Research Program (Engineering, Humanities, Social Science)	Jan. 21	Current sophomores and juniors GPA 3.5 or higher
MIT Biology/BCS summer research program	Jan. 30	Current sophomores and juniors GPA 3.5 or higher
Medical College of Wisconsin Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Summer Program for Undergraduate Research	Feb. 1	Preference given to current sophomores and juniors with GPA 3.2 or higher
Ohio State University Summer Internships in Plant Pathology	March 16	Current sophomores, juniors, and seniors GPA 3.0 or higher
Princeton University Summer Undergraduate Research Program in Molecular and Quantitative & Computational Biology	Feb. 1	Current first-years, sophomores, and juniors
University of Colorado Cancer Center Cancer Research Summer Fellowship	Feb. 1	Current first-years, sophomores, juniors, and seniors
University of Connecticut Health Center Undergraduate Summer Research Internship Program in Biological and Biomedical Sciences	March 1	Current sophomores and juniors
University of Vermont Neuroscience Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships	Jan. 10	GPA 3.0 or higher
Washington University in St. Louis Biomedical Research Apprenticeship Program (BioMedRAP)	Feb. 1	Current first-years, sophomores, and juniors
Kupcinet-Getz International Science School (mathematics, physics, chemistry and the life sciences)	Dec. 24	Current first-years, sophomores, and juniors GPA 3.6 or higher
West Virginia University Health Sciences Center, Center for Neuroscience Summer Undergraduate Research Internship	TBA	Current sophomores and juniors (current seniors must contact program director)
Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center, INSIGHT injury research internship	Jan. 15	GPA 3.0 or higher Preference given to current sophomores, juniors, and seniors