About this role
Overview of Department & Mentor
Under the leadership of Dr Mark Pimentel, the Medically Associated Science and Technology (MAST) program at Cedars-Sinai is dedicated to the development of novel drugs and devices to diagnose and treat patients. This innovative program is working to develop new diagnostics and therapeutics to treat patients with illnesses related to imbalances or alterations in metabolism and the microbiome.
Role Activities & Timeline
Supervisor(s) and intern will meet in person to discuss goals and evaluate experience, outline curriculum and learning tasks, and evaluate progress in experience via rubric testing. Throughout the up to 6 months timeline, communication is a vital part of the experience and communication of progress, experience, and presentations will occur at weekly laboratory meetings. Feedback on presentations and annotation of study and data will also occur at these weekly meetings.
- Month 1-2: Experimental projects: Will be participating in bench research, human and animal sample processing. Running assays on Reimagine Cohort. Also, gathering and preparing data analysis.
- Month 3-5: Data analysis, compiling, graphing, write up of observations and findings.
- Month 6: Prepare results for presentation, publication.
Role Summary & Objectives
The internship will involve rudimentary bench research experience, including microbiology culture work, DNA extraction, sequencing, PCR, and other assays. Intern will learn about concepts and experimental findings associated with research on the human microbiome. Intern may also be involved in clinical research studies and data compilation and analysis. We will also endeavor to provide interns career development insights.
Cedars-Sinai is a leader in providing high-quality healthcare encompassing primary care, specialized medicine and research. Since 1902, Cedars-Sinai has evolved to meet the needs of one of the most diverse regions in the nation, setting standards in quality and innovative patient care, research, teaching and community service. Today, Cedars- Sinai is known for its national leadership in transforming healthcare for the benefit of patients. Cedars-Sinai impacts the future of healthcare by developing new approaches to treatment and educating tomorrow's health professionals. Additionally, Cedars-Sinai demonstrates a commitment to the community through programs that improve the health of its most vulnerable residents.
Cedars-Sinai is one of the largest nonprofit academic medical centers in the U.S., with 886 licensed beds, 2,100 physicians, 2,800 nurses and thousands of other healthcare professionals and staff. Choose this if you want to work in a fast-paced environment that offers the highest level of care to people in the Los Angeles that need our care the most.
Other facts
About Cedars-Sinai
Since its beginning in 1902, Cedars-Sinai has evolved to meet the healthcare needs of one of the most diverse regions in the nation, continually setting new standards for quality and innovation in patient care, research, teaching and community service.
Today, Cedars-Sinai is widely known for its national leadership in transforming healthcare for the benefit of patients.
Cedars-Sinai receives consistent recognition for our excellence. Our awards include; being named one of America’s Best Hospitals by U.S. News & World Report, receiving the National Research Corporation’s Consumer Choice Award 19 years in a row for providing the highest-quality medical care in Los Angeles, achieving the longest-running Magnet designation for nursing excellence in California, and being recognized as The Advisory Board Company’s 2017 Workplace of the Year, an award Cedars-Sinai has won three years in a row. This annual award recognizes hospitals and health systems nationwide that have outstanding levels of employee engagement.
Cedars-Sinai is a leader in the clinical care and research of heart disease, cancer and brain disorders, among other areas. Pioneering research achievements include using cardiac stem cells to repair damaged hearts, developing minimally invasive surgical techniques and discovering new types of drugs to target cancer more precisely.
Cedars-Sinai also impacts the future of healthcare through education programs that encompass everything from highly competitive medical residency and fellowship programs to a biomedical science and translational medicine PhD program, advanced training for nurses and educational opportunities for allied health professionals. Most notably, Cedars-Sinai demonstrates a longstanding commitment to strengthening the Los Angeles community through wide-ranging programs that improve the health of its most vulnerable residents.
What you'll do
- The intern will participate in bench research, including sample processing and running assays, followed by data analysis and preparation of results for presentation and publication. Weekly meetings will provide feedback and evaluate progress throughout the internship.
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