Call for BSID undergraduate research experience in Summer 2023
The BSID is pleased to offer undergraduate students for skin research experience during the summer of 2023.
Eligibility and focus:
Open to undergraduate students who are looking for a Summer Project in one of the BSID members’ labs. Projects should be skin focused, research question-based, concluded with a report at the end of projects. Selected reports will be presented at the BSID meeting.
Funding:
£1500 stipend and £500 consumables for a 6-week project in the lab.
Application process:
Potential students should contact projects’ supervisors prior to their applications.
The applicants are expected to outline what they want to achieve through this studentship.
| Project # | PI name | email address | Affiliation | Project title |
| 1 | Wei-Li Di | w.di@ucl.ac.uk | UCL GOS Institute of Child Health | Development of gene editing strategies for rare genetic skin disorders |
| 2 | Daniele Bergamaschi | d.bergamaschi@qmul.ac.uk | Blizard Institute, QMUL | Impact of autophagy deregulation in skin diseases |
| 3 | Paola Di Meglio | paola.dimeglio@kcl.ac.uk | King’s College London | investigating the skin-brain axis in the pathogenesis of psoriasis |
| 4 | Catherine Wright | catherine.wright@gcu.ac.uk | Glasgow Caledonian University | Fibrosis and its impact on diabetic wound healing |
Applications should be submitted by the students. The application form can be found here. Students should contact projects’ supervisors prior to their applications.
Deadline :
20:00 GMT 8th January 2023.