Internship
Central to preparing students for careers in regenerative medicine is a rigorous internship at a company or academic laboratory focused on Regenerative Medicine and/or Stem Cell Research. The Internship will occur over ten months (Aug 15 - June 15) at one of our partner institutions. The Internship Project(s) will be designed to allow the students to progress from supervised to independent work, with the goal of collecting results of a publishable volume and quality. The Internship will culminate with a written report and oral presentation of the Internship Project, and an evaluation by the Intern’s Supervisor. Overall, the Internship will provide trainees the opportunity to master their laboratory skills, and develop their critical thinking, problem-solving, and communication skills.
Industry Sites
- engineered and gene edited T-Cell therapies to treat solid tumors
- Intern Hosts: Process Development and Technical Operations Groups
- iPSC-derived models to evaluate cardiotoxicity and neurotoxicity of investigational compounds probe mechanisms of toxicity
- Intern Hosts: Investigative Toxicology Group in the department of Safety Assessment in Research and Early Development
- Development of processes for production, testing, shipping, and implantation of insulin-producing cell therapy, cardiomyocyte cell therapy, and dopamine neuron cell therapy
- Intern Hosts: Cell Therapy Research Group
- Pharmacological approach to induce apoptosis in senescent cells to improve stem cell function in multiple tissues to mitigate effects of chemotherapy toxicity
- Intern Hosts: Preclinical Research
- Evaluate the in vivo response to muscular dystrophy gene therapies in preclinical studies
- Intern Hosts: Preclinical Research
- Developing tools for iPSC generation and differentiation, and for manufacturing/quality control of clinical therapies
- Intern Hosts: Cell Biology Group & Pharma Services Group
Academic Site
University of California, San Diego
- A variety of projects related to cell biology, tissue engineering, genetics, directed differentiation, molecular screening, gene editing, and disease modeling
- Intern Hosts: Dr. Maike Sander, Dr. Stephanie Cherqui, Dr. Catriona Jamieson, Dr. Karl Willert, Dr. Joseph Gleeson, Dr. Kang Zhang, Dr. Pamela Itkin-Ansari, Dr. Karen Christman