Pediatrics
Mentor Name: Hongxia Ren
- Internship Location:
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Medicine
- Pre Professional Interests Preferred:
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Pre-Medicine, Pre-Veterinary Medicine
- Environment:
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Lab
- Website:
- https://medicine.iu.edu/faculty/26336/ren-hongxia/
- Majors Preferred:
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Biology, Biomedical Engineering, Biotechnology, Neuroscience
- Hours per week:
- 10
- Schedule:
- Flexible within regular work hours
- Summary:
- The prevalence of obesity is increasing at an alarming rate worldwide. Our work focuses on developing therapies for metabolic diseases, including obesity and diabetes. We include cutting-edge technologies in neuroscience and physiology and employ various models, including transgenic animal models, stem cells, and tissue cultures for our projects.
- Internship Duties:
- Data acquisition, quantification, and analysis.
