Information about internships

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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 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 Dr. Thijs Eijsvogels.

Internships at Integrative Physiology

• The effect of physical training on vascular function in patients with diabetes
• High intensity exercise training for heart failure patients
• Thermoregulation during exercise
• Cerebrovascular flow in spinal cord injured individuals
• Hypothermia after total hip replacement
• Exercise training in children with a congenital heart diseases

Internships at Ion Transport

• Patients with mutations in a potassium channel suffer from convulsions
• Effect of Proton Pump Inhibitors like omeprazol on mineral balance
  
• The new anti-ageing hormone klotho
• Characteristics of a knockout mouse lacking the epithelial calcium channel
  
• How to avoid cellular traffic jams?
  
• Understanding hypertension by impaired renal salt transporters
  

Internships at Osmoregulation

• Lithium-induced renal cyst formation; the molecular role of polycystin-1 and 2
• Functional restoration of Calcium-Sensing Receptor mutants in FHH
• Identification and characterization of the long-sought osmoreceptor in health and diseases

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 Nijmegen Medical Centre 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 Dr. Thijs Eijsvogels.