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  • Summer Scholars Internship Program on Infectious Diseases in the Immunocompromised Host

  • The Summer Scholars Internship Program on Infectious Diseases in the Immunocompromised Host at the Fred Hutch Cancer Center is an 8-week program for currently enrolled undergraduate students and first-year medical students interested in infectious diseases within immunocompromised populations.

    The 2026 program dates are June 22nd - August 14th. Selected interns must be able to commit to the entire program period in order to participate. If your class schedule overlaps with the program dates, we will work with you to make a reasonable accommodation after program acceptance.

    We recommend that you review the application and prepare materials in advance before you begin filling in this web application. You can preview the application on our program website.

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    Fred Hutch is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We seek, celebrate, and leverage diversity to support our mission and strengthen our culture of creativity, innovation, and lifesaving research and patient care. We support equal employment opportunity in hiring, development, and advancement for all qualified persons without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, or any other protected status. We are required to compile the following information for statistical purposes to comply with federal regulations relating to Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action requirements. To comply with these requirements, we invite you to voluntarily self-identify your gender, ethnicity/race, veteran status, and disability status. Your answers will not be used against you in any way. Please know that the information obtained will be kept confidential and will only be used for government reporting purposes. When reported, data will not identify any specific individual. 

  • This summer internship program is part of our training program curriculum. Our training programs are supported in part through funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). We are required to report the diversity of applicants and participants to NIH. Special consideration may be given to individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds, those with disabilities, those from racial/ethnic groups underrepresented in the health sciences or those who will be the first generation in their family to attend college. The following questions are useful to assess and report to the NIH the diversity of applicants and participants in our program.

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      Because we do business with the government, we must reach out to, hire, and provide equal opportunity to qualified people with disabilities. To help us measure how well we are doing, we are asking you to tell us if you have a disability or if you ever had a disability. Completing this form is voluntary, but we hope that you will choose to fill it out. If you are applying for a job, any answer you give will be kept private and will not be used against you in any way.

       

      If you already work for us, your answer will not be used against you in any way. Because a person may become disabled at any time, we are required to ask all our employees to update their information every five years. You may voluntarily self-identify as having a disability on this form without fear of any punishment because you did not identify as having a disability earlier.

       

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  • Researchers in the Infectious Disease Sciences Program contribute to laboratory (wet lab experiments, assays etc.), clinical (chart review, epidemiological studies, etc.) and computational (clinical trial modeling, etc.) research activities.

    Laboratory Research: Research done in a laboratory. A laboratory study may use special equipment and cells or animals to find out if a drug, procedure, or treatment is likely to be useful in humans. It may also be a part of a clinical trial, such as when blood or other samples are collected. These may be used to measure the effect of a drug, procedure, or treatment on the body.

    Clinical Research: Research in which people, or data or samples of tissue from people, are studied to understand health and disease. Clinical research helps find new and better ways to detect, diagnose, treat, and prevent disease. Types of clinical research include analyzing clinical trials, which test new treatments for a disease, and natural history studies, which collect health information to understand how a disease develops and progresses over time.

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  • Short Essay Questions

    The essays are a very important part of the application. Your responses allow you to tell us things about yourself that do not appear in other parts of the application. Use specific examples, full sentences, and complete paragraphs. Ask others to review your responses for content, clarity, and grammar.
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  • Please review the list of Fred Hutch faculty and provide the name of a faculty member you would like to work with through the program.

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    Enter the name and email address for the individual who will submit a letter of recommendation on your behalf. An automatic email will be sent to this person with instructions to upload their recommendation letter. We recommend that you contact your references directly to ensure they have received the message. 

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