Undergraduate Research Opportunities

Last year, only about half of the 150 students that applied to SURF were admitted to the program, so you may want to investigate some other research opportunities available around the country.

Undergraduate Research Opportunities

Columbia University's Career Services has additional information on internships in general, and you might find some science-related things there. You can also visit their walk-in service.

Research Opportunities in New York City

• Columbia University, Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Program. For Columbia undergrads only!
• Columbia University - Amgen Scholars Program
• Columbia University - Genentech Fellowship Program. For underrepresented minorities and first generation college students.
• Columbia University - Lamont-Doherty Summer Internship Program
• Columbia University - Summer of Translational Aging Research for Undergraduates (STAR U) Program
• CUIMC - SPURS (Summer Program for Under-represented Students) at Columbia University Irving Medical Center
• American Heart Association - Undergraduate Student Summer Fellowship Program
• Mount Sinai Graduate School of Biological Sciences - Summer Undergraduate Research Program
• New York University - Center for Neural Science
• Rockefeller University - Biomedical sciences
• Sloan Kettering Institute - Biomedical sciences
• State University of New York, Health Science Center, Brooklyn. Biomedical sciences

Biomedical Research - Elsewhere

• Amgen Scholars Program: 23 other sites around the globe
• Reppeger Research Internship Program Dayton, OH, San Antonio, TX, Pittsburgh, PA. Air Force Research Laboratory Research Participation Program
• Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX. The Summer Medical and Research Training Program (SMART)
• Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island, NY. Biology and chemistry
• Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH. Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Program
• Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY. Undergraduate Research Program (URP)
• Graeme Carnegie Fellowship for Summer Undergraduate Biomendical Research Department of Pharmacology & Regenerative Medicine at the University of Ilinois at Chicago
• Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. Summer Institute in Biomedical Informatics
• Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. Summer Scholars Program
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Science Opportunities
• Institut Pasteur. Paris, France. Zuccaire Undergraduate Summer Internship
• Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME. Genetic basis of disease
• Loyola University - Stritch School of Medicine, Chicago IL. Microbiology and Immunology
• Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. Biomedical sciences
• National Institute of Health, Bethesda MD. Biomedical research
• National Human Genome Institute, Immersive Summer Program for Reasearch in Genomics subprogram of the NIH Summer Internship Program
• National Science Foundation - Research Experience for Undergraduates Program
• Nemours Children's Health - Summer Undergraduate Scholarship Program
• NSF REU Site on “Engineering for Bouncing Back, Oregon State University
• Research School for Diabetes, Munich Germany
• Rice University - Summer Research Program at Rice University
• Sens Research Foundation - SRF Summer Scholars Program
• St. Jude Children's Hospital, Memphis, TN. Pediatric Onclogy Education (POE) Program. Cancer Research Opportunity
• New York Genome Center - The MacMillan Center for the Study of Non-Coding Cancer Genome(CSNCG)
• New York Genome Center - Undergraduate Summer Research Program in Single Cell Genomics
• The State University of New York Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY - Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship
• University of Buffalo - Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowship Program
• University of Buffalo - Microbiology and Immunology
• University of Buffalo - Summer Undergraduate Research Experience Program
• University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH. Biomedical sciences
• University of California, San Francisco - UCSF/Kaiser Permanente Undergraduate Research Internship (URI)
• University of Florida, Jupiter, FL - Summer Undergraduate Research at The Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute
• University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) - Graeme Carnegie Fellowship for Summer Undergraduate Biomedical Research
• University of Nebraska, Omaha, Nebraska. Pharmacology
• University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC. Pharmacology
• University of Michigan, The Frankel CVC Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program
• University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. All areas of biology
• University of Pittsburgh - Summer Researcg in Computational biology
• University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC. Behavioral Neuroscience and Psychology
• University of Texas, Health Science Center, Houston, TX.
• University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX. Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program (SURF)
• University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX. The Quantitative and Physical Sciences Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (QP-SURF) program
• University of Washington, Seattle, WA.  Genome Sciences Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates
• U.S. Department of Energy. Energy research undergraduate laboratory fellowship. Lots of engineering and physics, but also includes health and environmental sciences and biology. At DOE labs around the country, including Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island. 
• U.S. Department of Defense, Summer 2021 EACE Undergraduate Research & Surveillance Division Internship Bethesda, MD. Extremity Trauma and Amputation Center of Excellence. Student must currently be pursuing a Bachelor's degree
• U.S. Department of Defense, Forensic Science Internship Forest Park, GA.  Defense Forensic Science Center. Bachelor's degree received within 60 months
• U.S. Department of Defense, Medical Toxicology Research Intern Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD. U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense Medical Associate or Bachelor's degree received within 60 months
• U.S. Department of Defense, Viral Diseases Support Researcher Silver Spring, MD . Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. Bachelor's degree received within 60 months
• U.S. Department of Defense, Information Technology Fellowship Natick, MA . U.S. Army Research of Environmental Medicine Research. High School Diploman/GED, Associate, Bachelor's degree received within 60 months
• Orise Research Participation Program at U.S. Department of Defense
• Washington University, St. Louis, MO. Biomedical Research Apprenticeship
• West Virginia University Center for Neuroscience - SURI Program
• W.M. Keck Center for Computational Biology, Houston, TX.   Computational biology 
• Yale University Summer Research Opportunities for Undergraduate Students in Science and Engineering

For students from disadvantaged backgrounds or minorities

• BioMed RAP -Washington University in St. Louis
• Caltech Wave Fellows Undergraduate Research Program, Pasadena, CA
• EDUMED - EDUMED maintains a list of scholarships and resources for Hispanic and Latinx students
• Leadership Alliance - Minority International Research Training Program
• MIT Summer Research Program - (MSRP) Sophomores and Juniors interested in Science & Engineering
• National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD. Undergraduate Scholarship Program for individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds. Includes scholarship and internship for future summers
• Tri-Institutional Minority Society(TIMS) Summer Program for Undergraduate Research. Weil Cornell, Memorial Sloan Kettering or Rockeffeller University
• Weill Cornell/Rockefeller/Sloan-Kettering Gateways to the Laboratory, NYC for minority &/or disadvantaged freshman & sophomores that are interested in pursuing the combined MD-PhD program

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