The BioCanRx Indigenous Student Summer Internship Program provides Indigenous undergraduate university or college students with meaningful hands-on research or policy experience in cancer-related projects at post-secondary institutions across Canada. The program aims to promote and strengthen Indigenous students’ participation in cancer research, policy, and careers by providing networking, mentorship, and hands-on, practical experience opportunities.
Project eligibility extends beyond BioCanRx’s mandate of cancer immunotherapy and biotherapeutics to include any cancer-related research or policy-related work, including that with an Indigenous-oriented framework, such as Indigenous traditional knowledge.
This program is supported by partnerships with the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, that sponsors up to three students working with Ontario-based researchers, and the Canadian Cancer Society, that sponsors up to three students working with researchers across Canada.
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Deadline to apply: The application for the 2024 Internship program is now closed. Please check back in December 2024 for information regarding application for the 2025 Internship program.
Open Research and Policy Stream
Placement with a professor working at a Canadian University in the following areas:
- Clinical, social or economic impact research. This type of project aims to study and find potential solutions to social, legal, ethical, economic or health-systems barriers relating to cancer and patient care.
- Indigenous Knowledge. This type of project incorporates Indigenous knowledge to study cancer, or to develop strategies to improve cancer care of Indigenous people.
- Knowledge Translation. This type of project includes the development, implementation and/or measurement of materials, processes or applications used to improve cancer-related knowledge to Indigenous individuals or to a broader population.
- Laboratory-based research. This type of project encompasses cancer research taking place in a laboratory setting.
You can find more information about BioCanRx’s funded Research Program on our website. Please note that this is not an exhaustive list of what projects are eligible. If you have questions about the Open Stream regarding the fit of a project, supervisory eligibility or anything else, please do not hesitate to contact Julie Jonkhan at jjonkhans@biocanrx.com.
IMPORTANT NOTE TO STUDENTS FOR THE OPEN STREAM: At the time of the application, students must have found a supervisor with whom they wish to work and have made arrangements with the proposed supervisor to co-apply to this award. If you are interested in the Summer Studentship program, but have questions, please do not hesitate contacting Julie Jonkhan at jjonkhans@biocanrx.com or other listed Advisors below. Please note, we cannot guarantee any placement with a supervisor. You can find a list of BioCanRx funded investigators here. Please note you do not need to work with a BioCanRx investigator. As stated above your supervisor can be any investigator as long as they are doing cancer research or policy work at a Canadian Institution.
Please note that Indigenous students will also automatically be considered for the Summer Student program (inclusive of non-Indigenous students), and do not need to apply twice.
