Tuesday, July 6, 2010

List of potential researchers

The Part II Neuroscience curriculum at Cambridge requires me to spend Lent Term working in a research lab—a requirement to which I am very happy to oblige. The University posts a list of projects to choose from during Michaelmas Term, but if I do some extra legwork, I can arrange my own project or pick another lab that's not on the list.

I've spent two summers and two semesters seeing a project from start to finish in a fundamental research lab at Brown, and as a result, I have had rigorous training in the scientific process. However, I have also discovered that my interests lie much closer to translational "bench-to-bedside" research than to purely fundamental research. My goal is to spend Lent Term working on a translational (possibly clinical) project.

I'm not really sure how receptive Cambridge clinical researchers are to undergraduate students, but I'm going to compile a list of the ones I'm interested in working with anyways, so I know who to pester come October. I will amend the list as I find more neuroscience research labs.

I'll list the researchers after the cut.