Biomedical Research Summer Internships for British Black UG Students (BRIBBS).
The under-representation of black academics is a pressing issue in UK higher education. To encourage British Black undergraduate (UG) students to consider biomedical research as a career and future application to the MRC Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) at Warwick, we are offering two 8-week internships in world-class biomedical research laboratories on the Gibbet Hill campus over summer 2026.
Students will be trained in cutting edge laboratory techniques and train alongside Masters students in science communication by Podcast. Students will join MRC DTP students for careers speaker events, chalk talks and networking events and learn what it is like to be part of our Doctoral Training program.
Dates: Monday July 13th – Friday September 11th 2026
Funding: Interns will receive £380 / week made payable directly to the student. The project will attract up to £100 / week for consumables depending on the nature of the planned experiments.
Eligibility: Applicants should be a Home student (UK resident) who is currently undertaking an undergraduate degree in Biology, Biochemistry or Biomedical Science and is from one of the following ethnic backgrounds:
- Black – African
- Black - Caribbean
- Black - Other
- Mixed - White/Black Caribbean
- Mixed - White/Black African
- Other - Any Other Black Backgrounds
To apply: Send your CV with a cover letter indicating your interests and career ambitions to mrcdtp@warwick.ac.uk by Friday March 13th 2026.
Projects:
The following laboratory projects are on offer for Summer 2026:
David Corcoran (CAMDU) and Marie Holt
"Imaging stress: smart microscopy for high throughput analysis of brain activity"
"Shine bright like a diamond: fluorescent reporters to study single molecule dynamics"
"Developing organs: using machine learning to understand how cells are shaped"
Darius Koester and Laura Cooper (CAMDU)
"Bendy joints: studying Ehlers Danlos Syndrome with deconvolution microscopy"
"Antimicrobial resistance: finding the Achilles heal of the bacterial cell envelope"
"Wonky motors: characterisation of clinical mutations in human motor protein KIF1C"
“Forcing the issue: understanding the mechanism of cell division”
“All I need... is me - Germline and sexual development in mangrove fish”
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“Clocking Cancer: effect of circadian disruption on tumour development”
