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SBBS Summer 2025 Research Scholarships

The School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science wishes to support the career development of high achieving, motivated and ambitious undergraduate students by providing a number of summer research scholarships. The school is highly research intensive and special emphasis is placed on translating fundamental discoveries to a greater understanding of health and disease, with the aim of informing novel drug discovery. Awardees will gain valuable insight into the world of biomolecular and biomedical research and develop important transferable communication and leadership skills.

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WHO should apply?

The Summer Research Scholarships are open to current Stage 3 SBBS undergraduate students who are studying a full-time BSc degree course in one of the five subject areas offered within the School; Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Genetics, Microbiology, Neuroscience, Pharmacology. The applicant must be available to undertake research during the Summer of 2025.

Each applicant may submit only one application. Each supervisor may support only one student’s application.

WHAT is the value of the award?

Awards of up to €1600 per student.

How many awards are available? 

Five summer research scholarship awards will be available in 2025.

How to apply?

Interested applicants should contact potential supervisors as soon as possible and arrange a meeting to discuss and agree a summer research project.  Students should contact SBBS PIs by email to express an interest in joining their lab for a summer project.  The following researchers have expressed a strong interest in supervising a scholarship student:

For PI contact details please click on their research profile links above or see https://www.ucd.ie/sbbs/about/academicstaff/

NB Supervisor agreement must be in place at the time of submission. If not, applications will not be considered.

Once supervisor agreement is in place students should submit an application form (opens in a new window)through the google form link here including project details together with a CV (maximum 2 pages) by Friday 3rd February, 2025.

Contact the UCD School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science

H1.38 O’Brien Centre for Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
T: +353 1 716 2130 | E: undergrad.sbbs@ucd.ie | Location Map(opens in a new window)