Additional Opportunities
Opportunities as a Student: Summer/Short-Term
Research | Year-Long Research |
Lab Animal Medicine
Post-Graduate Opportunities: Research | Lab
Animal Medicine
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Last update: September 18, 2017
Opportunities as a Student
Summer & Other Short-Term
Research Opportunities
Boehringer Ingelheim Veterinary Scholars Program
at other CVMs:
"Veterinary scientists play a critical role in the discovery and
development of new vaccines and pharmaceutical products for
veterinary and human health. The Boehringer Ingelheim Veterinary
Scholars Program provides an opportunity for veterinary schools to
introduce first and second year veterinary medical students to
biomedical research. By providing a supportive environment in which
students can experience research in an established laboratory,
complemented by seminars and discussion groups on the scientific
process, ethics, and research opportunities, the participants will
gain insight into careers in biomedical research."
[ BIVSP,
with links to specific college programs ]
NIH-funded Summer Programs for Veterinary Students
(T35)
NIH funds several Colleges of Veterinary Medicine and Colleges of
Medicine to support short-term, summer research training
programs.
[ Listing with program descriptions ] — Click on
"California" under "Short-Term Training Awards: Summer Programs for
Veterinary Students (T35)" to see descriptions of the programs.
Cornell Summer Research and Leadership
Program
"The Leadership Program for Veterinary Scholars at Cornell
University is a unique summer research experience for veterinary
students who seek to broadly influence the veterinary profession
through a science-based career. The program is an intensive,
research-oriented initiative that combines faculty-guided research
with vocational counseling, student-directed learning, and other
professional enrichment activities."
Applications due: December 31, 2017
[ application information ]
Morris Animal Foundation
"The Veterinary Student Scholars (VSS) program gives veterinary
students hands-on involvement in research early in their career so
they will consider entering this field where they are so critically
needed. Through the program, veterinary students or non-veterinary
graduate students receive stipends up to $5,000 to participate in
clinical or basic animal health and/or welfare research."
Proposals due: March 7, 2018
[ information ]
Comparative Gastroenterology Society/IDEXX Veterinary
Student Summer Scholar Award
"A CGS member in good standing, who is interested and
willing to serve as a mentor, should identify a first or second
year veterinary student willing to work in an area of mutual
research interest in veterinary or comparative gastroenterology. A
mentor must agree to provide a supportive learning atmosphere with
consistent supervision and direction given to the student. The
student must commit to working full-time on the research project
including attending all laboratory and research meetings. … The
program provides a 12 week hands-on research experience for
students with all levels of research background. … The emphasis of
this program is to expose the student to GI research and to give
them an opportunity to gather hands on experience, i.e., this will
be a learning experience on top of which the student will get
substantial pocket money."
Proposals due: February 15th, 2018.
[ information ]
Summer Internship Program in Biomedical Research For
Veterinary Medical Students at the National Institutes of
Health
"This training opportunity, which is a part of the NIH Summer
Internship Program, is designed to provide 8+ weeks hands-on
laboratory research experience for pre-doctoral veterinary medical
students interested in biomedical research. Students develop skills
in scientific research while working with leading biomedical
scientists using cutting edge technologies at the National Cancer
Institute (NCI), the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious
Diseases (NIAID), the National Institute for Neurological Disorders
and Stroke (NINDS), and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood
Institute (NHLBI). In addition, enrichment opportunities are
provided to allow interaction with veterinarians at NIH including
those training in translational and interdisciplinary research in
the NCI Comparative Biomedical Scientist Training Program.
These sessions provide the opportunity to learn about comparative
molecular pathology and comparative oncology initiatives in human
biomedical research, to attend formal lectures and seminars
targeted to students, to discover professional roles performed by
veterinarians working in a research environment, and to share
experiences with veterinary students from other colleges across the
nation. As the culmination of the summer internship, students
prepare and present their research findings in a poster session at
the National Veterinary Scholars Symposium, held each year in
August."
[ Information ]
Kennedy Krieger Institute: James A. Ferguson Emerging
Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program
"The program begins ... with a one-week orientation at Kennedy
Krieger Institute in Baltimore, Maryland that focuses on research
design, infectious diseases, urban health issues, and other health
equity topics. During the remaining eight weeks of the program,
students receive mentored educational and professional development
experiences at the CDC in Atlanta, Georgia, or in Baltimore,
Maryland at Kennedy Krieger Institute, Johns Hopkins Medical
Institutions, Bloomberg School of Public Health, or the Maryland
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Three experiences may be
offered at both sites: ... Research Externship..., Clinical
Externship ..., [and] Leadership Externship.
[ information ]
Southwest National Primate Research
Center
Description of 2017 program: "The Southwest National Primate
Research Center (SNPRC) is offering competitive student internships
for the summer of 2017. The 8-week program will take place from
June 5th through July 28th, 2017. Both undergraduate (junior or
senior levels) and graduate (M.A./M.S., Ph.D. and
veterinary) students enrolled at accredited
academic institutions will be eligible to participate. For those
submitting completed applications before January 31st, 2017,
notification of acceptance to the 2017 Summer program will be made
by February 28th, 2017."
[ information ]
US Food and Drug Administration
Summer Intern Program: Windows to Regulatory Research Internship
Program
"The Windows to Regulatory Research Internship Program offers
academically superior undergraduate, graduate, and professional
students hands-on experiences conducting basic and applied research
as well as performing in-depth technical reviews of data applicable
to animal health and food safety. Ultimately, the internship
benefits not only students themselves but the Center, FDA, and the
nation. Students gain career experience in a supportive yet
challenging atmosphere while the Center develops and guides future
scientific and regulatory leaders. Today's interns are CVM's
experts of tomorrow."
[ information ] This program was not offered in
2017.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"The Division of Comparative Medicine at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology has a number of NIH funded openings for
veterinary students who have an interest in pursuing research
during the summer months. Research Fellows will participate in
existing research projects in the laboratories of established
investigators at Massachusetts Institute of Technology or
collaborating institutions such as Harvard and Tufts. Research
fellows will augment their understanding of animal based research
by participating in clinical and laboratory rotations."
"Applications should be submitted early in the calendar year and no
later than April 30th. Applications are reviewed as they arrive so
there is the possibility all spots will be filled by April
30th."
[ information ]
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
"Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology offers summer fellowships
for veterinary students (two per year) to gain experience in
Comparative Pathology. This a paid summer fellowship. Students
perform necropsies, examine tissue sections under the microscope
one-on-one with pathology faculty, and attend clinical pathology
rounds to discuss pathology cases in the context of their clinical
histories. Summer students are also assigned small research
projects that can be completed in the short time they are here.
Competition for these summer positions is intense, and we have had
many excellent students go on to advanced training in pathology
after graduating from veterinary school."
[ information ]
Wake Forest School of Medicine
"First- or second-year students from AVMA-accredited veterinary
schools may apply for these NIH-sponsored Summer Research
Fellowships, which require at least 8 weeks in the department. The
program is open to up to 4 students per summer and provides
research training using animal models of human disease."
[ information ]
Stanford School of Medicine
"This program seeks to help veterinary students become biomedical
researchers. …The research project is the most important part of
the Program. The goals of the research project are to have students
address a significant experimental question, work independently and
with other researchers, and produce and publish results. The
Program matches students with a mentor (see list of faculty)
according to research interests. The mentor outlines a focused
project for the student to perform in their laboratory. Students
become completely involved in their assigned laboratory –
participating in laboratory meetings and social events, attending
seminars with other members of their laboratory, and working on
their research project at least 40 hours/week. The Program consists
of workshops on research-related topics, a veterinary student
journal club, sessions on research career development for
veterinarians, an individual research project, and a veterinary
student research symposium."
Applications due: February 28, 2018
[ information ]
Summer Research Fellowships in Laboratory Animal
Medicine
"The American Society of Laboratory Animal Practitioners with
several funding partners is supporting 10-16 week Summer
Fellowships in Laboratory Animal Medicine. Are you interested in
clinical veterinary medicine AND research? Do you want to work with
a variety of non-traditional species? Are you curious about cutting
edge science that defines the human and animal biomedical fields?
If you are, then LABORATORY ANIMAL MEDICINE is the career for you,
we can help you explore, AND pay you to do so! Activities in these
programs will include practice of clinical medicine in a research
environment, diagnostic and research pathology of laboratory
animals, surgery, animal colony management, working closely with
laboratory animal veterinarians and residents, participation in
journal clubs, seminars and management teams, regulatory oversight
of animals used in research, laboratory animal medicine research
and a number of other exciting endeavors."
Year-Long Research
Opportunities
NIH Predoctoral T32 programs:
NIH funds several Colleges of Veterinary Medicine and Colleges of
Medicine to support year-long research training programs.
[ Listing with program descriptions ] — Click on
"California" under "Institutional Training Awards: Predoctoral
Programs for Veterinary Students (T32)" to see descriptions of the
programs.
Howard Hughes Medical
Institute: HHMI Medical Research Fellows
Program
"The Medical Research Fellows Program enables students to be
immersed in a high-impact, intensive research experience at a
critical time in their professional education, before they make
plans for residency or postdoctoral training. Unique aspects of the
program include national and regional professional development
activities, mentorship by physician-scientists, interaction with
HHMI investigators, and integration into a community of like-minded
peers. Each student selects and works with a mentor to develop a
basic, translational, or applied biomedical research proposal. Both
mentor selection and the research proposal are key components of
the fellowship application; working with an HHMI scientist is
encouraged but not required. Mentors can be at any academic or
nonprofit research institution in the United States (excluding the
National Institutes of Health and any other government agency) or
at HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus in Ashburn, VA. There are special
requirements for the Med Fellows Program at Janelia, including a
prescreening application deadline in early November."
[ information ]
NIH: Medical Research Scholars Program
"The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Medical Research Scholars
Program is a comprehensive, year-long research enrichment program
designed to attract the most creative, research-oriented medical,
dental, and veterinary students to the intramural campus of the NIH
in Bethesda, Md. Scholars engage in a mentored basic, clinical, or
translational research project in an area that matches their
personal interests and goals."
[ information ]
Opportunities in Lab Animal
Medicine
American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine (ACLAM):
Career Pathways Committee
The purpose of the Career Pathways Committee (CPC) is to develop
and implement an outreach program to veterinary medical students
and veterinarians outside the field of laboratory animal medicine.
The goal is to increase the number of laboratory animal
veterinarians in Biomedical Research.
[ information (Note: This page provides
information & links for Travel Awards, Externships, &
more.) ]
American Society of Laboratory Animal
Practitioners
[ information (Links to short-term externships
and summer programs) ]
Charles River Short Course on Laboratory Animal
Science
"The Short Course spans four days and is designed to educate and
update the biomedical research community on current trends and
technological advances in the field of laboratory animal science.
The course is broken into three tracks that include more than 60
topics presented by members of Charles River's professional staff,
as well as guest speakers."
[ information: This links to information on
courses offered. Find the link to the Short Course on Laboratory
Animal Science. Then find the link for "Student Veterinarian" under
the heading "Scholarship Information. ]
Post-Graduate
Research
Texas A&M University's T32: Comparative Biomedical
Research Training for Veterinarians
The Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary
Medicine & Biomedical Sciences at Texas A&M University
(together with faculty from the Colleges of Medicine, Agriculture
& Life Sciences, Science and Liberal Arts and with the
Interdisciplinary Programs in Genetics, Nutrition, Neuroscience,
and Toxicology) now offers a T32 training program. "In addition to
numerous research opportunities within the veterinary and medical
colleges in College Station, residents have the option of
performing research at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in
Galveston. UTMB is home of the Center for Biodefense and Emerging Infectious
Diseases and the Center for Tropical Diseases. The Galveston National Laboratory
is a state-of-the-art research facility that provides BSL-2, BSL-3,
and BSL-4 laboratory space."
[ information ]
NIH-funded Summer Programs for Veterinarians
(T32)
NIH funds several Colleges of Veterinary Medicine and Colleges of
Medicine to support post-DVM research training programs, most
leading to a PhD.
[ Listing with program descriptions ] — Click on
"California" under "Institutional Training Awards: Postdoctoral
Program for Veterinarians (T32)" to see descriptions of the
programs.
NIH Mentored Clinical Scientist Research Career
Development Award (K08)
Overview of K-Awards
The primary purpose of the NIH Mentored Clinical Scientist
Research Career Development Awards (K08) program is to prepare
qualified individuals for careers that have a significant impact on
the health-related research needs of the Nation. This program
represents the continuation of a long-standing NIH program that
provides support and "protected time" to individuals with a
clinical doctoral degree for an intensive, supervised research
career development experience in the fields of biomedical and
behavioral research, including translational research. An award is
for a period of 3 to 5 years and provides support for salary and
research-related costs. The amount funded as salary for a career
development award varies among the NIH participating Institutes and
Centers (ICs).
[ information ]
National Cancer Institute: Comparative Molecular
Pathology Research Training Program
"CCR NCI has developed a comprehensive NCI Comparative Molecular
Pathology Research Training Program to enhance the integration and
extrapolation of animal models to the study of human disease. … The
Training Program encompasses three distinct yet interrelated
approaches toward training that are designed to answer the specific
needs of individuals at different stages of training and laboratory
experience."
[ information ]
NIH Loan Repayment Program (DVMs
eligible)
"The NIH invites qualified health professionals who contractually
agree to engage in NIH mission-relevant research for at least two
years, and who agree to engage in such research for at least 20
hours per week based on a 40-hour work week, to apply for
participation in the extramural LRP. Extramural LRPs provide for
the repayment of educational loan debt of up to $35,000 annually
for qualified health professionals performing research within the
mission of NIH at domestic, non-profit, or government entities. …
The objective of the LRP-PR program is to recruit and retain highly
qualified health professionals as pediatric investigators. NIH
defines pediatric research as 'research that is directly related to
diseases, disorders, and other conditions in children.'" "
NIH Extramural Loan Repayment Programs
(LRP)
Extramural Pediatric Research Loan Repayment
Program (LRP-PR): Program Specific Information
Residency
Training Programs in Laboratory Animal Medicine
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"The objective is to train postdoctoral veterinarians in the
conduct of biomedical research in a comparative medicine context.
The program is comprised of a minimum of 3 years of integrated
practical and didactic training in research and medicine that
promote a multidisciplinary approach to questions in biomedical
science. The training is structured to expand upon the unique
comparative knowledge, skills, and perspectives that a veterinarian
brings to biomedical research. Postdoctoral fellows have the option
of pursuing an advanced degree through MIT's Department of
Biological Engineering or through the interdepartmental
Microbiology Graduate PhD Program. An optional six months of
clinical training, funded outside the T32 training grant, are also
available and strongly recommended."
[ information ]
American Society of Laboratory Animal Practitioners
(ASLAP)
[ list of training programs with contact
information ]
American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine
(ACLAM)
[ list of training programs with contact
information ]
Please contact Roger Smith (979-845-5167 or email) for additional information on
any of these programs or to correct/update any information on this
page.
