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CVVS Summer Students 2013
26/08/2013
This year, 14 undergraduate students participated in the CVVS Summer Studentship programme. Following a highly competitive process and a record number of applications (93), 13 students were selected. The successful students were drawn from Years 1 & 2 Queen’s Medicine, Biomedical Science and Human Biology students, with one external candidate from the Molecular Medicine course in Trinity College Dublin who won a Wellcome Trust Vacation Scholarship.
All 14 students carried out an 8-week project across each of our key research themes including ophthalmology, diabetic complications and cardiovascular disease. Feedback from both students and supervisors was excellent, and everyone seemed to enjoy their time in the labs or clinical trial unit.
Ms Shauna Wood (Year 2 Medicine) said “I really enjoyed the responsibility of planning, conducting and presenting a research project in CVVS, which I found to be both challenging and rewarding. My time at the CVVS has been an invaluable experience to meet fellow students and explore medical academia first-hand - I would highly recommend it!”
As part of the research programme, several students “scrubbed up” to observe cataract surgery performed by Professor Noemi Lois, Clinical Professor in Ophthalmology. The students also attended a Cell Therapy Symposium in Riddle Hall on June 25, and they had the opportunity to present their own data at a CVVS mini-symposium on August 1st. The standard of the presentations was first-rate and many of the supervisors and the Deputy Head of School, Professor Graham McGeown, attended the session.
We would like to thank all our summer students for their enthusiasm and willingness to participate in this programme. We wish them well in the upcoming semester and look forward to hearing about their future research careers!