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).
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.
This is a 10-week summer program that runs from June 4 to August 10, 2012 and includes a modest stipend. Students entering their junior or senior year of college in Fall 2012 are eligible to apply. Housing is the responsibility of the student.
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.
The Student Internship Program has established an excellent record of accomplishment. To date, there are 78 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.
2012 College Intern Program Job Description
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| To apply, please submit between January 09, 2012 and February 24, 2012: The deadline for all submissions is February 24th.
Send all materials by e-mail, fax, or regular mail to: Ms. Alysha Vogel
What the interns have to say about their experience in the program: “My favorite experience this summer was the Young Scientist lunches with visiting speakers. In talking with scientists at various beginning stages of their careers -- from the other undergraduates to those who had recently earned their doctorate -- I was exposed to the many paths available to a Biology major. This experience, along with the opportunity to converse with the renowned scientists who came to speak at the center, made for an incredibly rewarding summer.” - Andrew Degatano, 2011 Participant, Cornell University - “My favorite experience during the internship was being able to be in the lab and learning how work is actually done in a research environment. Learning the new techniques and coming to understand the reasoning behind why they were done, was a lot of fun and helped me take a lot away from the program. Overall, I had an amazing experience this summer at the Hepatitis B Foundation.” - Josh Wonsidler, 2011 Participant, Ursinus College - |
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| Nine 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. This year’s college students included Batbold Boldbaatar (Drexel University); Sitong Chen (Pennsylvania State University); Andrew Degatano (Cornell University); Laura Dipaolo (University of Pennsylvania); Alex Hsu (Brown University); Alex Koszycki (Drexel University); Dante Morgnanesi (Lafayette College); Catherine Wentzel (Villanova University) and Joshua Wonsidler (Ursinus College). |
The Hepatitis B Foundation gratefully acknowledges the following support of its Summer Internship Programs
- Merck’s West Point Charitable Contributions Committee (2003 – 2011)
- The Charles Sigety Family Foundation Student Fellowship (2005 – 2010)
- Delaware Valley College Student Fellowship (2005-2010)
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