Candidates for two summer internship programs at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation must apply in the next few weeks.
Both programs are paid, eight-week biomedical research internships. Participants earn at least $5,000 and may be eligible for free housing.
The Sir Alexander Fleming Scholar Program is open to current high school seniors and to college freshmen, sophomores and juniors. Applicants must be Oklahoma residents as of their high school graduation date. The application deadline is Feb. 1.
The program is named for Sir Alexander Fleming, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist who discovered penicillin and dedicated OMRF’s first building. Since its inception in 1956, more than 600 Oklahoma students have completed the program, which provides eight weeks of hands-on research experience in OMRF’s labs.
Separately, the Langston Biomedical Research Scholars Program is open to students who will be sophomores, juniors or seniors next year at Langston University, with an application deadline of Feb. 15.
Funded by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs through a pilot project aimed at diversifying the VA’s scientific workforce, the Langston program also offers an eight-week summer laboratory internship at OMRF.
Students in both programs often continue to work in OMRF’s labs during the school year after their internship ends.
“These internships offer meaningful, hands-on lab experience that goes well beyond what students learn in the classroom,” said Ashley Cheyney, Ph.D., OMRF’s assistant director of training programs and outreach. “Many of our former interns say their summer at OMRF helped them narrow their career-path decisions.”
For more information or to apply for either program, visit www.omrf.org/SummerScholars.
