Vacation Studentships Section

Most deadlines for application are in February/March. The following organisations offer funding for vacation studentships. Further organisations may be found at the HEA website.

Studentships within Oxford

BBSRC Vacation Research Bursary
Competition for Studentships to be held at laboratories associated with the Centre for Systems Biology 2011 & 2012. Contact Professor J Armitage. Closing date April/May.

Lister Summer Vacation Studentship
Open to students wishing to work with previous Lister Fellows In the Biochemistry Department . Contact Prof. Ilan Davis, Dr Rob Klose or Prof. Judith Armitage.
http://www.lister-institute.org.uk/studentships.html

Departmental Summer Vacation Studentship
Open to students registered for an M. Biochem in Oxford wishing to work in a laboratory in the Department of Biochemistry. Further Information

Oxford Cancer Research Centre (OCRC)
Closing date 26 April 2013

British Heart Foundation Summer Internship.
Available to work on cardiac biochemistry/physiology at the BHF Centre of Research Excellence in Oxford. Contact Professor Kieran Clarke, Dept of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics.
www.cardioscience.ox.ac.uk/bhf-centre/funding-opportunities/vacation-studentships

Weatherall Institute for Molecular Medicineand Nuffield Department of Medicine

http://www.imm.ox.ac.uk/students/studentships

http://www.ndm.ox.ac.uk/graduate-studies

Some Colleges offer funding for laboratory work in the summer vacation
e.g. Brasenose, Magdalen, St Anne’s. Apply via the Senior Tutor.

Studentships at Research Institutes in the UK

Cancer Research UK, London
For further information and to apply online visit the website:
http://www.london-research-institute.org.uk/jobs-education/summer-students.

Closing date 18^th February 2013

Institute of Cancer Research (London)

http://www.icr.ac.uk/education/science_students_opportunities/summer_vacation_scholarships/index.shtml

Closing date TBA

MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College, London

http://www.csc.mrc.ac.uk/Jobs/SummerStudentships/Undergraduate

National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill

http://www.nimr.mrc.ac.uk/summer-studentships

John Innes Centre, Norwich

http://www.jic.ac.uk/students/undergrad_bursaries.html

Studentships from UK institutions

(* Potential Supervisor must be member of the society)

Biochemical Society Summer Studentships*
http://www.biochemistry.org/education/vacation.htm
closing date 13^th February 2013

The Genetics Society Summer Studentships*
www.genetics.org.uk/page/2717/Genes-and-Development-summer-studentships.html
closing date 15^th March 2013

Biology Undergraduate Research Bursaries Programme
(Nuffield Foundation /Society of Biology)
http://www.societyofbiology.org/education/hei/urb
Closing date 15^th February 2013

The Physiological Society Vacation Studentship Scheme*
http://www.physoc.org/undergraduate-vacation-studentship-scheme
closing date 1^st April 2013

The Society for General Microbiology*
http://www.sgm.org.uk/grants/vs.cfm
Closing date 15^th February 2013

Wellcome Trust
http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/funding/Biomedical-science/Funding-schemes/PhD-funding-and-undergraduate-opportunities/index.htm
Closing date 15^th February 2013.

Studentships outside the UK

Amgen studentships (Stockholm/Munich/Cambridge)
http://www.amgenscholars.eu/about_amgen_scholars/host_universities/europe_program

University of Zurich/ETH Zurich
http://www.biologie.uzh.ch/Studium/Studiengang/UndergraduateSummerSchool.html

Grenoble
Project on Molecular Dynamics and modelling. Contact Dr Sylvia McLain in the Dept of Biochemistry, Oxford.

ERASMUS placements
http://ec.europa.eu/education/erasmus/doc892_en.htm

USA placements
Howard Hughes Medical Centre
http://www.janelia.org/student-programs
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
http://www.cshl.edu/education/urp
http://www.asbmb.org/summerresearchprogram/Landing.aspx

Other Vacation Placements