Indigenous Summer Studentships

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The goal of the BioCanRx Indigenous Student Summer InternshipProgram is to provide Indigenous undergraduate university or college students with meaningful hands-on research or policy experience in the area of cancer. This is accomplished through internships with research groups at post-secondary institutions across Canada or with partnering organization, Canadian Partnership Against Cancer. Although BioCanRx’s mandate focuses on cancer immunotherapy and biotherapeutics, the BioCanRx Indigenous Student Summer Internshipis open to any cancer-related research or policy-related work including that with an Indigenous-oriented framework, such as Indigenous traditional knowledge. An additional intent of this program is to promote and strengthen Indigenous students’ participation in cancer research and policy and careers by providing networking, mentorship, and hands-on, practical experience opportunities.

Open Research and Policy Stream

Placement with a professor working at a Canadian University in the following areas:

• Clinical, social or economic impact research. This type of project aims to study and find potential solutions to social, legal, ethical, economic or health-systems barriers relating to cancer and patient care.
• Indigenous Knowledge. This type of project incorporates Indigenous knowledge to study cancer, or to develop strategies to improve cancer care of Indigenous people.
• Knowledge Translation. This type of project includes the development, implementation and/or measurement of materials, processes or applications used to improve cancer-related knowledge to Indigenous individuals or to a broader population.
• Laboratory-based research. This type of project encompasses cancer research taking place in a laboratory setting.

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