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Program Summary:  

This internship is offered as a part of the Life-Health Sciences Internship Program (LHSI). This program connects 125 IUI undergraduates per year with internships on campus with faculty and staff in a variety of health and science related campus areas/programs. All LHSI internships start in August 2025 and end in May 2026 and are paid $13/hour for up to 10 hours per week. Work-study is accepted but not required.

Supervisor: Dr. Ann Kimble-Hill (lab)

Department/Office: Medicine; Biochemistry

Overview of the internship site: Demystifying triple negative breast cancer My work is focused on understanding the interface between cellular membranes and membrane proteins in initiating tumorigenesis. Our laboratory has focused on: 1) understanding the role of Angiomotin membrane recognition and selection as a mechanism for regulating cellular polarity, growth, and proliferation; 2) understanding the role of Type 2 Diabetes in initiating breast cancer; and 3) understanding the factors that lead to the health disparities of Black women having higher incidences at younger ages and worse clinical outcomes. Students have worked on projects that varied from site-directed mutagenesis of cDNA, protein purification, testing mutated proteins for changes to native function, lipid dynamics, and zebrafish embryo injections.

Website for more information: https://medicine.iu.edu/faculty/12434/kimble-hill-ann

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Students in this lab perform all of their own experiments and analysis. Students may have to do literature searches to optimize experiments before performing them. Students working in the laboratory will have to the opportunity to do experiments using bacteria, human cell lines, and zebrafish.

Work Environment and Dress Code: The work is performed primarily in a lab setting with dress code lab attire

Hours per week: 10, scheduling is flexible during regular, evening, and weekend work hours

Project-specific qualifications: General chemistry and biology are required. Biochemistry, analytical chemistry, bacterial cell culture experience, and mammalian cell culture experience preferred.

By the end of the LHSI program, you will:

·        Carefully consider, explore, and articulate your career goals, including an analysis of how you arrived at that path and what steps you need to take next. (Community Contributor, Communicator)

·        Understand your role and strengths on a professional team and analyze who you would like to become as a professional. (Communicator)

·        Gain and strengthen skills relevant to next steps after graduation, such as communication, collaboration, teamwork, analysis/synthesis/evaluation, independence, confronting/challenging failure, problem-solving and perseverance, and constructive criticism. (Problem Solver, Communicator)

·        Convey ideas and knowledge effectively through an ePortfolio and presentation of your internship work. (Problem Solver, Communicator)

·        Set and meet your own additional learning goals identified with your supervisor.

LHSI Qualifications  

·        must be graduating May 2027 or after (usually a current freshman or sophomore in Spring 2025) 

·        Current full-time IUI undergraduate

·        minimum overall GPA of 2.0 

·        All majors welcome

To apply:

LHSI accepts at least 125 interns per year. Complete the application for LHSI at lhsi.indianapolis.iu.edu and select 3-4 internship sites on that application. All available sites are listed in Handshake and will start with the position title “LHSI Intern.” You will meet with at least 2 of these if selected for interviews.