Summer Internships

Every summer since 2000, the Hepatitis B Foundation has recruited outstanding college students for its Summer Internship Program, located in Doylestown, Pennsylvania (25 miles north of Philadelphia).

College students who are in their junior or senior year are eligible to apply for this 10-week summer program that includes a modest stipend.

Interns work with professional scientists from the Hepatitis B Foundation and its research affiliate, the Institute for Hepatitis and Virus Research, and the Drexel Institute of Drexel University College of Medicine. Valuable mentoring and supervision of individual projects is provided for each student. At the conclusion of the summer, interns present their projects to the entire faculty in a special seminar.

The Summer Internship Program is supported, in part, by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education and funding from the Merck Community Foundation and the Sigety Family Foundation.

The Student Internship Program has established an excellent record of accomplishment. To date, there are 43 Program alumni who have completed their undergraduate studies. All have enrolled in either professional (medical or veterinary) or graduate school or have found employment in the biomedical field in either biopharma or in academia.

To apply, please submit a cover letter, resume and two academic/professional references by February 27, 2009:
(it is expected that positions will be filled by April 15)

Ms. Donna L. Mayer
Hepatitis B Foundation
3805 Old Easton Road
Doylestown, PA 18902
(Phone) 215.589.6328
(Fax) 215.489.4900
donna@hepb.org

Six high school students participated in a two-week enrichment program and eight college students were selected for 10-week paid internships. HBF's summer programs contine to attract the best and the brightest to learn more about biomedicall research within the context of HBV and liver cancer.