2024 Medical Student Summer Research Fellowship cohort at our end of program poster presentation.
The application for the 2025 Medical Student Summer Research Fellowship is now open! Please complete the online application by Friday, January 31, 2025 at 11:59pm EST. Register for our summer program here!
This summer program exposes students to the unique MSK scientific environment. Medical students, who are between the first and second years of school, work on research projects under the mentorship of MSK faculty members. While pursuing their research activities, students attend programs led by preeminent cancer researchers and innovators in cancer care. In this way, students gain exposure to the rigors of scientific investigation within the context of an academic cancer center, with an emphasis on precision medicine. Launched in 1977, this program has enabled over 1,500 medical students to contribute to the research enterprise of a premier academic medical center. The program aims to enhance the students’ knowledge about cancer and to stimulate research careers in this discipline.
The program includes the following:
- opportunities to work with mentors and in laboratories centrally involved in translational research
- clinical shadowing opportunities that offer exposure to clinical oncology
- didactics on oncology, research methods, and professional development
- skill-building to help medical students learn how to draw together lessons from science and practice presenting their work in ways that are relevant to a range of audiences
Past Medical Student Summer Fellowship Oncology Research Projects
Summer research projects reflect a broad-based perspective on the entire research cycle from discovery to development to delivery of care. Project areas include laboratory bench research, clinical research, biostatistics, and epidemiology among others. Below are a few projects students worked on during our 2024 fellowship program. 2025 projects will be posted directly in our application.
- Identification of predictive and prognostic factors for bladder cancer patients treated with enfortumab vedotin
- Clinical and Translational Research in Thoracic Surgical Oncology – Novel Therapies in Mediastinal Tumors and Outcomes in Lung Cancer
- Impact of infections on the outcomes of stem cell transplantation
- Risk of symptomatic ischemic stroke in lung cancer patients with incidental microinfarcts on baseline screening brain MRI
- Translational research into mechanisms of resistance to targeted therapies
- Brain Tumor Insights: Neuroradiology, AI, and Advanced Imaging
- Clinical outcomes for patients with metastatic brain tumors
- Biopsy free, noninvasive Diagnosis of Skin lesions in clinical settings
