The Internship program provides an opportunity for our students to gain access to industrial facilities and become more aware of the “gestalt” and practice of industrial research and development.  Students spend 8-10 weeks at an industrial site under the guidance of a specific industrial investigator. These experiences may, on occasion, lead to the involvement of an industrial mentor on the student’s dissertation committee. Students who have prior extensive industrial experience in the biotech industry may elect to opt out of this requirement; but many of these students still wish to do rotations to update skills and sample other areas of interest. We are extremely fortunate to have a tremendous variety of experiences available.

Representative Industrial Internships

Student Quotes

"My mentor at Celgene trained me extensively in basic and advanced immunology, sent me helpful papers to read, and helped guide my experiments throughout the summer. Importantly, he also gave me the freedom to suggest or modify experiments."

"Baxter Healthcare provided me with an outstanding experience, I was assigned a meaningful project and my responsibilities evolved as their trust in my abilities increased"

"By the end of the internship at Merck I was able to efficiently and independently carry out tests on protein formulations across several sophisticated machines."

"My lab at Johnson & Johnson had state of the art equipment, and as an intern I was able to use and master most of the equipment that was available."

"My summer internship at Integra Life Sciences provided me with a broad overview of the inner workings of a medical device company, from both an engineering and corporate level."

"Overall, this internship at Merck was a very interesting and excellent experience, supplementing my graduate coursework while giving me a taste of research in industry."