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 Anke van Mil.

Internships at Integrative Physiology

• Acute effects of exercise in heart failure patients
• Cardiovascular characteristics in athletes and patients with a myocardial infarction
• Exercise and creativity
• Exercise-induced cardiac troponin release and cardiovascular diseases
• Vascular function in patients suffering from Diabetes Mellitus Type 2

Internships at Ion Transport

• Function of renal primary cilia in health and disease as revealed by CRISPR/Cas9 technology
• "Fishing for function"; the role of SLC41A3 in zebrafish magnesium homeostasis
• Finding the mutation in hypomagnesemia: the genome as grab bag
• Can magnesium prevent vascular calcifications in chronic kidney disease?
• How does hypomagnesemia contribute to diabetes mellitus?
• Are SNPs in the calcium channel TRPV5 causing hypercalciuria?
• The structural basis of an exeptional protein kinase TRPM6
• Unscambling the new splice-variant NaCI cotransporter in the regulation of arterial blood pressure

• Unravelling calcineurin inhibitor-induced hypertension after transplantation 

Internships at Osmoregulation

• Diuretics as treatment for lithium-induced nephrogenic diabetes insipidus
• Functional aspects of SNPs in the succinate receptor: links to renal damage and diabetes?
• The succinate receptor as a key regulator in renal damage
• Treatment of inherited forms of hypercalcemia; the use of calcimimetic drugs 

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 Anke van Mil.