Diabetes and Obesity Summer Research Fellows Program
The UK Diabetes and Obesity Research Priority Area and the UK Barnstable Brown Diabetes Center are announcing funding for summer research fellowships (undergraduate and medical students) to support highly motivated students.
Diabetes and obesity represent significant health concerns in the Commonwealth, and we are committed to reducing these concerns by enhancing research in the area.
Among other efforts, ensuring development of the next generation of biomedical researchers is a key goal.
Undergraduate and master's students
We invite investigators in diabetes and/or obesity-related research to identify potential undergraduate student candidates. Please forward the application to students and encourage them to apply.
Alternatively, investigators will be paired with undergraduate students interested in this experience. Student researchers will receive a stipend to enable this summer activity in the lab. Fellowships will run for 10 weeks.
Medical students
Investigators will be paired with medical students interested in this experience. Student researchers will receive a stipend to enable this summer activity in the lab. The program will run for eight weeks.
To complement the research experience, students will attend a weekly session featuring a short talk by participating faculty. This will be followed by brief, 5-minute presentations by fellows on their summer projects. The program is informal, promoting discussion and an exchange of ideas.
As part of the overall program, we request that research fellows participate in a poster forum at the end of the summer (details to follow). This is a valuable networking event and gives students a chance to share their work with fellow students, research mentors and other campus research programs.