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Internship opportunities

Below are some resources for students looking for internship opportunities in neuroscience research. Application deadlines are generally in early to mid-February so you should be searching and applying for summer internships over the winter break. 

Local to NoVA: 
Mason's Aspiring Scientists Summer Internship Program (applications due Feb. 15, 2026)

NIH Summer Internship Program in Biomedical Research (Bethesda MD and other locations, application deadline Feb. 18, 2026)

You can also check the NSF site for national REU programs (Research Experience for Undergrads). Example: Brown University Fuxjager Lab Biology of animal movement and performance (paid internship. See Thomas Serre lab for computational neuroscience opportunity, due Feb. 3, 2026)

A selection of undergraduate opportunities across the country: 

FUN Internship Opportunities for Students --this is a comprehensive, updated list of programs around the country from Faculty for Undergrad Neuroscience 

REU in Molecular Biosciences at Colorado State (paid internship, applications due February 2, 2026)

REU in Animal Behavior at Indiana University (paid internships, applications due February 10, 2026)

REU in Biological Discovery in Woods Hole (paid internship, applications due TBD)

REU in Basic Sciences, Genomics and Neuroscience Louisiana State University (paid internship, application due TBD)

REU "The Stressed Life of Cells" at University of Kansas(paid internship, application due February 23, 2026)

REU in Neuroscience at University of Missouri-Columbia (paid internship, TBD check back in February)

ENDURE at Washington University of St. Louis (paid internship, application due February 2, 2026)

Neuroscience Undergraduate Research Opportunity (NURO at West Virginia University) (paid internship, application due January 30, 2026)

SURP in Cold Springs Harbor (paid internship, application due January 15, 2026)

SURP in Neuroscience at NYU (paid internship, application due January 15, 2026)

SURP in Biomedical Sciences at Albert Einstein College of Medicine (paid internship, application due February 1, 2026)

SURP in the Department of Pharmacology at Case Western (application due January 15, 2026)

SURP Fred Hutch Cancer Center in Seattle, Washington (paid internship, application due January 9, 2026)

SURF UT Southwestern (paid internship, application due February 1, 2026)

SURP Howard Hughes Medical Center (paid internship, application due December 22, 2025)

SURP Medical University of South Carolina (paid internship, application due January 31, 2026)

Blazer BRAIN SURP University of Alabama (paid internship, application due February 28, 2026)

NeuroSURP at Rutgers University Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (paid internship, application due February 16, 2026)

SURP University of Nebraska Medical Center (paid internship, application due February 1, 2026) 

SURP Center for Neuroscience University of Pittsburgh (paid internship, application due January 24, 2026)

SMART Program at Baylor University School of Biomedical Sciences (paid internship, application due January 30, 2026)

SMART Program at University of Colorado at Boulder (paid internship, application due February 1, 2026)

SURF at Cincinnati Children's Hospital (paid internship, application due February 1, 2026)

SURF at The Rockefeller University (paid internship, application due February 1, 2026)

SURF Upstate Medical University (paid internship, application due February 1, 2026)

SPUR Medical College of Wisconsin (paid internship, application due February 1, 2026)

SPUR at UCLA (paid internship, application due March 1, 2026)

SRIP at University of Virginia (paid internship, application due February 1, 2026)

SUIP UPenn (paid internship, application due February 1, 2026)

Summer Research Training Program at UCSF (paid internship, application due February 2, 2026)

Summer Scholars Program University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry (paid internship, application due February 28, 2026)

Sanford Program for Undergraduate Research (paid internship, application due January 31, 2026)

Summer Neuroscience Internship Program (SNIP) at University of Florida (paid internship, application due February 13, 2026) 

Princeton Neuroscience Institute Summer Internship Program (paid internship, applications due February 3, 2026)

Irvine Summer Institute in Neuroscience Program (paid internship, January 9, 2026)

Washington University of St. Louis ENDURE Program (paid internship, application opens November 3, 2025 and due February 2, 2026)

Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science Summer Undergrad Research Fellowship (SURF) (paid internships, applications due February 3, 2026)

URSP Oregon Health & Science University (paid internship, applications due February 1, 2026)

URSP in biological and biomedical sciences at UCONN Health (paid internship, application due February 1, 2026)

Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences Undergraduate Summer Internship (paid internship, application due January 30, 2026)

Vanderbilt Summer Science Academy (application due depending on program, most due by February 1, 2026)

Post Bacc programs for recent BS Graduates:

-NIH OITE-Post-Bacc Enrichment Program (applications accepted on a rolling basis)

-Oregon Health & Science University Post-Bacc Research Program (no deadline posted yet)

-Harvard Medical School PiNBAC program (application due January 16, 2026)

MD-PhD specific Summer Undergraduate Research Programs (AAMC resource page)

Allen Institute Post-Bacc Program (application due January 7, 2025)

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