Undergraduate Students

embryonic stem cell

Internship Overview

A 6 month full-time paid research internship ($2575/month ***STIPEND SUBJECT TO TAX) in a stem cell lab at City of Hope, Caltech, USC, The Scripps Institute or Western University of Health Sciences.
During the internship, the student will keep his/her status as a full-time student and receive unit credit for the research.
There are 3 positions available at CPP and 3 positions available at CSULA.
All interns will also participate in a 1-week Stem Cell Techniques Training course at the USC CIRM Shared Research Laboratory prior to starting their internships.
The interns will be assigned both a research mentor from the institution in which they will be doing their stem cell research and a CSU faculty mentor to guide them during their internships.
Upon completion of their internships, interns will give talks on their research at a CPP/CSULA symposium.
Participants will be chosen by a committee including faculty from both CPP and CSULA.

You must have completed at least three of the courses listed below, before the research internship begins, or their equivalents, with a B or better.

Cal Poly Pomona
Cal State L.A.

It is your responsibility to request official transcripts from all previous post-secondary educational institutions to be mailed directly to the address below.
An unofficial electronic copy of your transcripts needs to be sent to airanjansen@yahoo.com
You must also have three letters of recommendation in an electronic form as an attachment (pdf on letterhead preferred) sent by your recommenders to airanjansen@yahoo.com. Hard copies of the letters must also be sent to the address below.
The official transcript documents must be postmarked by the application deadline date (CPP: March 15, 2012; CSULA: see application page) and mailed directly to: