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MD-PhD Summer Undergraduate Research Programs

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MD-PhD-specific Summer Undergraduate Research Programs

Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth Hanover, N.H. MD-PhD Undergraduate Summer (MPUS) Fellowship

Harvard Medical School Boston, MA Summer Institute in Biomedical Informatics

Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts Institute of Technology Boston, MA Harvard/MIT Equitable Access to Research Training (HEART) MD–PhD Summer Program

Indiana University School of Medicine Indianapolis, Ind. Undergraduate Research for Prospective Physician-Scientists and Physician-Engineers

Ohio State University Medical Center Columbus, Ohio ASPIRE Medical Research Program

State University of New York Upstate Medical University Syracuse, NY Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Physician Scientist Program (SURF-PS)

University of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham, Ala. Summer in Biological Sciences (SIBS) Undergraduate Research Program

Companion program for URM Preparation for Graduate and Medical Education (PARAdiGM) Program

University of California San Diego San Diego, Calif. Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Program

University of California, San Diego La Jolla, CA The UCSD MSTP Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)

University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, Ohio  Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)

University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine Iowa City, Iowa Summer Undergraduate MSTP Research (SUMR) Program

University of Minnesota Medical School Twin Cities Minneapolis, Minn. Life Sciences Summer Undergraduate Research Programs

University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry Rochester, N.Y. MSTP Summer Scholars Program

University of Wisconsin - Madison School of Medicine & Public Health Madison, WI MSTP Summer Scholars Program

Vanderbilt University Nashville, Tenn Vanderbilt MSTP Summer Research Program

Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis St. Louis, Mo. MSTP ACCESS Program

Weill Cornell/Rockefeller/Sloan-Kettering New York, N.Y. Gateways to the Laboratory Summer Program

Summer Undergraduate Research Programs

Albert Einstein College of Medicine Bronx, N.Y. Summer Undergraduate Research Program

Augusta University Augusta, Ga. Summer Student Training and Research (STAR)

Baylor College of Medicine Houston, Texas Summer Medical and Research Training (SMART) Program

Boston University School of Medicine Boston, Mass. Summer Student Training and Research (STAR)

Brigham and Women's Hospital  (in collaboration with Harvard-affiliated hospitals) Boston, Mass. Harvard Summer Research Program in Kidney Medicine

Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, Ohio Case Summer Research Programs

Children's Hospital Research Foundation of Cincinnati Cincinnati, Ohio Division of Developmental Biology Undergraduate Summer Student Program

City of Hope National Medical Center and Beckman Research Institute Duarte, Calif. Eugene and Ruth Roberts Summer Student Academy

Committee on Institutional Cooperation Champaign, Ill. Summer Research Opportunities Program

Creighton University Omaha, Neb. Undergraduate Biomedical Research Training Program

Dell Medical School - The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX Dell Medical School’s LIVESTRONG Cancer Institutes’ Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)

Drexel University College of Medicine Philadelphia, Pa. Biomedical Graduate Studies-Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship

Georgia State University, Neuroscience Institute Atlanta, Ga B&B Summer Scholars Program

Gerstner Sloan-Kettering Graduate School New York, N.Y. Summer Undergraduate Research Program

Harvard Medical School Boston, Mass. Summer Honors Undergraduate Research Program (SHURP)

Hofstra North Shore/LIJ School of Medicine   Manhasset, N.Y. Feinstein Institute for Medical Research Student Intern Program 

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Baltimore, Md. Summer Internship Program (SIP)

Keck Graduate Institute Claremont, Calif. Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) Program

Louisiana State Health Sciences Center Shreveport Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Neuroscience Shreveport, La. Summer Undergraduate Pharmacology Experience in Research Program (SUPER)

Loyola University Chicago, Stritch School of Medicine   Chicago, Ill. Undergraduate Summer Research Program, Department of Microbiology & Immunology  Summer Undergraduate Research program, Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Maine Medical Center Research Institute Scarborough, Maine Summer Student Research Program at main Medical Center Research Institute

Massachusetts General Hospital Multicultural Affairs Office Boston, Mass. Summer Research Trainee Program

Mayo Clinic Rochester, Minn. Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship

Medical College of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Wisc. Summer Program for Undergraduate Research Summer Enrichment Programs

Medical University of South Carolina Charleston, S.C. Summer Undergraduate Research Program

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center New York, N.Y. Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) Medical Student Summer Fellowship Research Program Molecular Imaging Summer Program (MISP)

Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation Minneapolis, Minn. Summer Research Internships in Clinical Cardiology

Mount Sinai School of Medicine New York, N.Y. Summer Undergraduate Research Program

National Institutes of Health Bethesda, Md. Summer Internship Program in Biomedical Research

New York University School of Medicine New York, N.Y. Summer Undergraduate Research Program

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Evanston, Ill. Summer Research Opportunity Program

Oregon Health and Science University Portland, Ore. Summer Research Programs

Penn State University, College of Medicine Hershey, Pa. SURIP – Summer Undergraduate Research Internship Program STEP-UP - Short-Term Educational Program for Underrepresented Persons SURF – American Heart Association Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship

Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford, Calif. Stanford Summer Research Program (SSRP)/Amgen Scholars

Stony Brook University School of Medicine Stony Brook, NY Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program

Texas A&M University College of Medicine Bryan, Texas Summer Undergraduate Research Program

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences   Lubbock, Texas Summer Accelerated Biomedical Research (SABR) Program 

Thomas Jefferson University Philadelphia, Pa. Summer Undergraduate Research Program

Tufts University Boston, Mass. Sackler School Summer Research Programs

University of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham, Ala. Summer Research Programs for Undergraduates

University of Arizona Tucson, AZ Summer Undergraduate Research Program BLAISER Program

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine Little Rock, AR Summer Research Fellowships for Undergraduate Students UAMS Summer Undergraduate Research Program to Increase Diversity in Research

University at Buffalo (SUNY) School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences Buffalo, N.Y. Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE)

University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine Irvine, CA Summer Undergraduate Research Program

University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA Summer Programs for Undergraduate Research

University of California, San Francisco San Francisco, CA Summer Research Training Program

University of Chicago Chicago. Ill. The Leadership Alliance & The University of Chicago Summer Research Early Identification Program The Pritzker School of Medicine Experience in Research (PSOMER)

University of Cincinnati College of Medicine Cincinnati, Ohio Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)

University of Colorado Health Sciences Center Denver, Colo. Graduate Experience for Multicultural Students (GEMS)

University of Connecticut Health Center Farmington, Conn. Undergraduate Summer Research

University of Georgia Biomedical and Health Sciences Institute Athens, Ga. Summer Undergraduate Fellows

University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago, Ill. Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP) 

University of Kansas Lawrence, Kan. Summer Undergraduate Research Programs

University of Kentucky Lexington, Ky. NSF-REU: Summer Program in the Biomedical Sciences

University of Louisville School of Medicine Louisville, Ky. Cancer Biology Training Program

University of Maryland Baltimore, Md. Office of Student Research

University of Massachusetts Medical School Worcester, Mass. Summer Undergraduate Research Program

University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and Rutgers University New Brunswick, N.J. Undergraduate Summer Research

University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine Miami, FL. Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)

University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Mich. UM-SMART Undergrad Summer Program

University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minn. Life Sciences Summer Undergraduate Research Programs (LSSURP)

University of Mississippi Jackson, Miss. Summer Research Internship in Medical Sciences

University of Missouri Columbia, MO Summer Research Internship in Medical Sciences

University of Nebraska - Lincoln Lincoln, Neb. Undergraduate Summer Research Program

University of Nebraska Medical Center Omaha, Neb. Summer Undergraduate Research Program

University of New Mexico School of Medicine Albuquerque, N.M. Undergraduate Pipeline Network Summer Research Program

University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center Oklahoma City, Okla. Native American Center for Health Research Summer Undergraduate Research Experience Summer Undergraduate Research Experience Stephenson Cancer Center Summer Undergraduate Program

University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pa. Summer Undergraduate Internship Program (SUIP) Undergraduate Clinical Scholars Program

University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Pittsburgh, Pa. Summer Undergraduate Research Programs Premedical Academic Enrichment Program MIDAS summer Research Opportunity Undergraduate Summer Research Opportunities Training and Experimentation in Computational Biology

University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry Rochester, N.Y. MSTP Summer Scholars Strong Children’s Research Center Summer Program

University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston Houston, Texas Summer Undergraduate Research Program

University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Smithville, Texas Summer Program in Cancer Research

University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston, Texas Computational Cancer Biology Training Program Neuroscience Summer Undergraduate Research Program Summer Internship in Tropical Diseases Research

University of Texas School of Medicine at San Antonio San Antonio, Texas GSBS Summer Undergraduate Research Programs

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Dallas, Texas Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)

University of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah Native American Summer Research Internship (NARI)

University of Virginia School of Medicine Charlottesville, Va. Minority Health International Research Training Program (MHIRT) Summer Research Internship Program

University of Washington School of Medicine Seattle, WA University of Washington Summer Undergraduate Research Program

University of Wisconsin Madison, Wisc. Integrated Biological Sciences Summer Research Program Summer Research Opportunity Programs

Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond, Va. Summer Research in Microbiology, Infectious Diseases and Public Health Epidemiology (MIDPH) 

Wake Forest University Winston-Salem, N.C. Summer Research Opportunities Program

Washington University St. Louis, Mo. BioMedRAP AMGEN Scholars Program MSTP ACCESS Program

Wayne State University School of Medicine Detroit, Mich. SURE Programs

West Virigina Univeristy Morgantown, WV MD/PhD Summer Research Internship

Weill Cornell/Rockefeller/Sloan-Kettering New York, N.Y. Gateways to the Laboratory Summer Program Weill Travelers Summer Research Fellowship Program Computational Biology Summer Program (CBSP) Chemical Biology Summer Program (ChBSP) Engineering Summer Program (ESP)

Yale School of Medicine New Haven, Conn. NIH-NIDDK/KUH Yale Summer Research Fellowship for Undergraduate Students BioMed Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship

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