Information about internships at Physiology

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The department of Physiology offers a broad range of internships for students biomedical health science and medicine. Depending on the research question and type of internship, the duration varies between 3 and 12 months.

We guarantee that every internship consists of a clear and concise research question, while the student will be exposed to all phases of research, i.e., literature search, developing protocols and experiments, usage of equipment, data analyses, statistics, writing a report, presenting data, etc. Furthermore, every intern can benefit from the outstanding facilities, personal supervision and state of the art courses which characterize our international department.

The current options of internships are listed below. For more information or an appointment, please use our contact form or e-mail our student coordinator Hugo Hulshof.

Internships at Integrative Physiology

• Internships at Intergratieve Physiology will follow as soon as possible.

Internships at Ion Transport

• Molecular signaling of flow-mediated electrolyte handling in the kidney
• Fishing for function: characterisation of renal electrolyte handling in health and disease with the zebrafish model
• Can magnesium prevent vascular calcifications in chronic kidney disease?
• How does CNNM2 regulate magnesium (Mg2+)-transport in the kidney
• Not just waste: urinary ATP and intercellular communication along the nephron
• Fishing for function characterization of renal electrolyte handling in health and disease with the zebrafish model
• Characterization of a novel magnesium gene by next generation sequencing - Unraveling the mysterious role of FAM111a in Kenney-Caffey syndrome
• Can magnesium (Mg2+) protect against vascular calcification in a mouse model of CKD?
• Kidney organoids as an innovative tool to study electrolyte homeostasis
• Structure - function relationship of the calcium channel TRPV5

Internships at Osmoregulation

• Creating a unique cell model for pheochromocytoma 
• Characterization of a zebrafish model for pheochromocytoma, an adrenal cancer type 
• The role of smoking-induced oxidative stress and the stress receptor SUCNR1 in age-related macular degeneration 

Internships abroad

Are you interested in a traineeship abroad? We can help you by finding a suitable lab, writing your research proposal and by providing a supervisor from the Radboud university medical center during your internship in a foreign country.

The department of Physiology has collaborations with research groups in England, Scotland, Denmark, Switzerland and Belgium, but also in Australia, New-Zealand, Canada, the United States of America and more.

For more information or an appointment to discuss the various possibilities, please use our contact form or e-mail our student coordinator Hugo Hulshof.