Undergraduate Summer Student Research Program
Overview
For more than 40 years, the Undergraduate Summer Student Research Program in the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry at the University of Alberta has provided undergraduate and medical students the opportunity to participate in summer research studentships in the laboratories of faculty members involved in both basic and clinical research. These positions are available for three or four months each year between May and August. For the last five years, approximately 200 students have participated annually, making this the largest program of its kind in Canada.
Students are funded from multiple sources including faculty endowments, the University of Alberta Office of the Provost and VP Academic, the Alberta Innovates -- Health Solutions (AIHS), the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the Northern Alberta Clinical Trials and Research Centre (NACTRC).
General Guidelines
- The supervisor(s) must have a faculty appointment in the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry
- Each student must have his or her own project.
- The faculty supervisor is responsible for obtaining ethics approval or certification for research involving human participants, animals or biohazards BEFORE starting any such research.
- Projects must be 2-4 months long and take place between May and August.
- Eligibility - Please refer to agency guidelines
- A student may apply to a number of different agencies for funding, but must have the same project and the same supervisor for each application, and can only submit one application per agency. Please read agency guidelines carefully.
Contact Information
Mary Pat Gibson
Office of Research
Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry
Tel: 780.248.1023
mgibson@ualberta.ca
