NIH Summer Internship Program (SIP)

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Program Description

Summer programs at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) provide an opportunity to spend a summer working at NIH side-by-side with some of the leading scientists in the world, in an environment devoted exclusively to biomedical research. (At NIH "biomedical research" includes everything from behavioral and social sciences, through biology and chemistry, to physics, mathematical modeling, computational biology, and biostatistics.)

Internships can be located at multiple NIH locations which include the 240-bed Mark O. Hatfield Clinical Research Center and more than 1150 laboratories/research groups located on the main campus in Bethesda, MD, and in the surrounding areas including:

  • Baltimore, MD
  • Frederick, MD
  • Research Triangle Park, NC
  • Hamilton, MT (limited number of positions)
  • Framingham, MA (limited number of positions)
  • Phoenix, AZ (limited number of positions)
  • Detroit, MI (limited number of positions)