Pediatrics
Supervisor: 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:
- Our work focuses on developing therapies for metabolic diseases, including obesity and diabetes. 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
