NONDUKE STUDENT/INTERN

Duke Careers • Durham, NC

26d • Onsite

About The Position

Mentored Summer Research Internships
are paid, in-person internships for graduate students in quantitative disciplines to conduct research in multiscale immune systems modeling. Areas of research may include analysis of spatial-omics and imaging data, developing a framework for simulations, simulating epidemics on social networks, building generative models to improve computation time for simulations, and other multiscale immune systems research areas.
Internship Details:

Up to 6 summer internships are available (2 per research project)
2026 Internship dates: Friday, May 15, 2026 through Sunday, July 26, 2026
Interns will be provided a stipend of $21 per hour (up to a maximum of 40 hours per week) and optional housing accommodations for their participation (unless forbidden by NIH – e.g., T32 recipients)
Interns will present their research at a MISM Seminar
All interns are required to attend weekly
in-person
meetings and seminars for the duration of the internship

Requirements

• Interns must have a quantitative background (e.g., statistics, biostatistics, mathematics, computer science, engineering, data science, computational biology)
• Interns must be enrolled in a graduate program at the time of the internship
• All graduate student employees must work in North Carolina
• No MISM intern is allowed to conduct work outside the United States, regardless of U.S. citizenship or visa status.

Responsibilities

• work as a member of the research team
• participate in existing seminars and workshops
• receive structured training and professional mentorship
• present their research at a MISM Seminar
• attend weekly in-person meetings and seminars for the duration of the internship

Benefits

• Duke provides comprehensive and competitive medical and dental care programs
• generous retirement benefits
• a wide array of family-friendly and cultural programs to eligible team members

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Intern