Snyderman Scholars Applied Genomics & Precision Medicine Summer Program

Research opportunities in applied genomics & precision medicine at Duke span a wide range of topics, including genomic and computational biology, data sciences, statistics, health sciences research, translational medicine, bioethics, business, and policy. The Snyderman Scholars in Applied Genomics & Precision Medicine Program is open to undergraduate Duke students in their second, third or fourth year. 

Students must already be working in a laboratory they wish to continue to work in over the summer and provide a description of their project in the application. Mentors must be faculty members in any Duke school. Students must also obtain a letter of support from the faculty mentor, confirming the mentor’s willingness to host the student for the summer. Faculty letters should be sent directly to Dr. Susanne Haga at susanne.haga@duke.edu. 

The proposed project must clearly focus on a minimum of one area of applied genomics or precision medicine, such as:

• -omics-driven biomarker discovery and insights into disease biology
• -omics technology development and new analytical approaches
• Analytic and translational approaches to diagnostics
• Evidence-based approaches that use innovative tools and data science to customize disease prevention, detection and treatment and improve the effectiveness and quality of care
• Policy, health economics and bioethics

Students will receive campus housing (if requested) and a $5,000 stipend. We especially encourage women and individuals from underrepresented minority groups to apply. Students will be selected for the program based on their research focus/project and faculty letters of support/recommendation.

2023 Snyderman Scholars

Camille Krejdovsky (Class of 2025)

• Mentor: Micah Luftig, PhD, Professor of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology
• Major: Biology and French
• Project Title: Epstein-Barr virus and cancer: Validating CRISPR screen hits of cellular restriction factors with single knockouts to explore potential mechanisms of action

Julia Caci (Class of 2024)

• Mentor: Kris Wood, PhD, Associate Professor of Pharmacology & Cancer Biology
• Major: Biology
• Project Title: Exploring the cellular basis for sensitivity to NDE1 depletion in brain-metastatic lung cancer cells

2022 Snyderman Scholars

Peter Nam

• Major: Computer Science
• Mentor: Everardo Macias

Paul Kim

• Major: Biology
• Mentor: Jennifer Zhang

2018 Snyderman Scholars

Sarah Feng (Class of 2019)

• Mentor: David Hsu, M.D., Ph.D.
• Major: Biomedical Engineering and Biology
• Project Title: Predictors of response to anti-FGFR therapy in colorectal cancer

Vidit Bhandarkar (Class of 2019)

• Mentor: Charlie Gersbach, Ph.D.
• Major: Biology
• Project Title: Genome Engineering in Human Cells