cancer research during undergrad

[zbruinz]

I know cancer is a broad topic, but is there any way for an undergrad to do some type of meaningful research on it during college?

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[EBI831]

yeah i've known for a while i wanna do oncology and i got 2 summers of meaningful cancer research during undergrad. apply for St. Jude Children's Hospital POE program--it's for the summers (deadline has passed this summer) and its 40 hr/wk for 11 wks all housing paid for and its with a group of like 50 other students so you won't be lonely.

 

[byong_soo]

it is possible but obviously not easy (i guess it also depends on your definition of meaningful)

 

[zbruinz]

I guess anything more than pure scut work.

 

[gsmithers68]

(i guess it also depends on your definition of meaningful)

Amen.

Meaningful is the key word... if you find culturing cells for a post doc invigorating then albeit you can find a position that is very 'meaningful'

I would say the majority of undergraduate research is slave/grunt work in my experience.

 

[zbruinz]

so you deal with zebrafish? how is that? 🙂

 

[schooltill30]

yeah i've known for a while i wanna do oncology and i got 2 summers of meaningful cancer research during undergrad. apply for St. Jude Children's Hospital POE program--it's for the summers (deadline has passed this summer) and its 40 hr/wk for 11 wks all housing paid for and its with a group of like 50 other students so you won't be lonely.

Ya, I'm doing this next summer hopefully. I'm from Memphis, and I know people that work there. It's apparently a very prestigious program and attracts the best students. Maybe I'll see you there...😉

 

[momtwo]

I know cancer is a broad topic, but is there any way for an undergrad to do some type of meaningful research on it during college?

My daughter worked in a cancer center doing clinical research during her undergrads - 4 years generally 20 hours a week during class and full time in summers/breaks. The hours were counted toward PA school @ Duke and now she's practicing in Oncology as a PA. I could be way off - and you are talking about lab research but this is what she did.

 

[gsmithers68]

so you deal with zebrafish? how is that? 🙂

Zebrafish are great. I highly recommend them. They are actually used in many different forms of cancer research and a lot is going on in them looking at tumor supressor genes, etc. If you really want to look into model organisms there is someone at UCSF who uses chimeras of quails and ducks and makes qucks. Now that is some sweet ****