MSK 2024 Medical Student Summer Research Fellowship

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Summer medical student, Kerry-Ann Pinard presenting poster

Summer medical student, Kerry-Ann Pinard (left) is presenting her poster, “A descriptive study of drainage gastrostomy tube placement in patients with malignant small bowel obstruction,” to fellow summer students Adriana Rodriguez (center) and Ashley Nieves Archibald (right).

Applications

The application for the 2024 Medical Student Summer Research Fellowship is now open! Please complete the online application by Friday, February 2, 2024 at Eastern Time. Register for our summer program here.

This summer program exposes students to the unique MSK scientific environment. Medical students, who are between the first and second years of school, work on research projects under the mentorship of MSK faculty members. While pursuing their research activities, students attend programs led by preeminent cancer researchers and innovators in cancer care. In this way, students gain exposure to the rigors of scientific investigation within the context of an academic cancer center, with an emphasis on precision medicine. Launched in 1977, this program has enabled over 1,500 medical students to contribute to the research enterprise of a premier academic medical center. The program aims to enhance the students’ knowledge about cancer and to stimulate research careers in this discipline.

The program includes the following:

  • opportunities to work with mentors and in laboratories centrally involved in translational research
  • clinical shadowing opportunities that offer exposure to clinical oncology
  • didactics on oncology, research methods, and professional development
  • skill-building to help medical students learn how to draw together lessons from science and practice presenting their work in ways that are relevant to a range of audiences
Our 2024 Program Application will run from June 10, 2024 until August 2, 2024.
Past Medical Student Summer Fellowship Oncology Research Projects

Summer research projects reflect a broad-based perspective on the entire research cycle from discovery to development to delivery of care. Project areas include laboratory bench research, clinical research, biostatistics, and epidemiology among others. Below are a few projects students worked on during our 2023 fellowship program. 2024 projects will be posted directly in our application.

  • Health Equity in Integrative Medicine
  • Translational research into mechanisms of resistance to targeted therapies in RET-rearranged NSCLC
  • Radio Genomics of Breast Cancer Brain Metastasis
  • Narcotic utilization of Cancer patients after Oncologic Surgeries
  • Clinical and Translational Research in Thoracic Surgical Oncology – Novel Therapies in Mediastinal Tumors and Outcomes in Lung Cancer
  • Risks of infertility, hypogonadism and ED in men treated with pelvic RT for locally advanced rectal cancers and anal cancers
  • Financial Toxicity in Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Survivors
  • Advances in the field of non-invasive imaging for mucocutaneous lesions: Integration in clinical practice