Student Research

There are numerous opportunities for both short-term and long-term experiences in basic, clinical and public health research in a variety of laboratories, clinics, and departments at Tufts University School of Medicine and its primary teaching hospital, Tufts Medical Center. In addition, there are a variety of programs at institutions across the United States that provide students the valuable opportunity to participate in research.

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Student Research Profile

The Intelli-Plate 96, an instrument designed to help with harvesting crystals.

Lucy Horton is a 2010-11 Fogarty International Clinical Research Scholar, a program that gives health sciences students clinical research training at NIH-funded research centers in developing countries. Lucy traveled to Vellore, India, working to unravel an epidemic of chronic kidney disease.

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Tufts University

Tufts University School of Medicine and the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at Tufts University are international leaders in innovative medical education and advanced research. The School of Medicine and the Sackler School are renowned for excellence in education in general medicine, biomedical sciences, special combined degree programs in business, health management, public health, bioengineering and international relations, as well as basic and clinical research at the cellular and molecular level.

Ranked among the top in the nation, the School of Medicine is affiliated with six major teaching hospitals and more than 30 health care facilities. Tufts University School of Medicine and the Sackler School undertake research that is consistently rated among the highest in the nation for its effect on the advancement of medical science.