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Internships

Your kickstart to an international level in health & life sciences

 

We host national and international students, trainees, post docs and visiting scientists and we are always looking for new enthusiastic students for internships.

Challenging and rewarding student projects in the area of life sciences and health are provided by the divisions Research, Diagnostic Services, Consulting Services and our Innovation and Business development division Sanquinnovate. Please, find more information below.

Research

Covering the complete spectrum of blood and blood transfusion research, division Research aims to perform original work on not only basic and clinical but also applied topics. Studies are aimed at the development and improvement of cellular blood products and plasma products. As a consequence, our research departments deal with a complementary range of subjects including fundamental biology and biochemistry of blood cells and plasma proteins, hematopoiesis, immunohematology, coagulation, immunopathology, blood-borne infections, blood transfusion technology, transfusion monitoring, transfusion medicine, bioinformatics, and donor studies (focusing on health, social and behavioral sciences).

Within Sanquin, research relating to blood transfusion medicine and immunology in the broadest sense is performed by a dedicated research staff. This staff consists of about 120 researchers (including many scientists holding professorships, and around 60 PhD students), and over 80 technicians. Every year over 225 papers are published, mainly in peer reviewed journals and about 15-20 PhD theses are defended. A major part of the research takes place in different departments of Sanquin Research, located on the premises in Amsterdam.

Research Facilities

  • Confocal microscopy
  • Mass spectrometry
  • Sequencers
  • Wide-field imaging
  • Flow cytometry
  • Image stream

Interested?

If you are interested in an internship at Sanquin, please check out the projects below or have a look at our research groups and contact the group leader (or their secretariat) directly. Only the group leaders know if and when they have internship positions available.

Recruiting students for specific projects

We are looking for students for already written projects: 

Recruiting students Health and Behavioral Sciences for donor studies projects

 

Diagnostic Services

At the moment there is one internship position available within the R&D team of Sanquin Diagnostic Services for the academic year 2024-2025

The division Diagnostic Services advises and conducts blood testing in the field of transfusion medicine and immunology. It tests blood and tissue donors, develops new tests and closely cooperates with the division Research and external partners like (academic) hospitals, universities, other knowledge institutes and industry.

Diagnostic Services is active in the field of:

  • Immunological disorders (immune deficiencies, transplantation, autoimmunity, allergy)
  • Clotting and bleeding disorders
  • Hematological disorders (leukemia, hemochromatosis)
  • Blood-borne Infections (Q-fever, hepatitis B/C, HIV and more)
  • Transfusion research (blood group antigen typing and HLA-related research, allo- and autoantibody-mediated blood cell destruction and immunohematological diagnostics)

 

Sanquinnovate

Sanquinnovate is Sanquin’s exploitation arm, creating new value-adding products and services/assets to tackle challenges in the hematology, immunology and oncology. 

Through top-notch scientific research, dedicated business development and project management we are committed to generate and further develop early ideas into meaningful therapeutics, blood products and diagnostics products for patients with unmet medical needs.

Consulting Services

Consulting Services (SCO) offers guidance and advice to restricted economy countries in the field of blood transfusion improvement projects. This guidance and advice consists of training possibilities for developing countries and tailor-made education programs at all levels of the transfusion organization. In close relationship with the Academic Institute for International Development of Transfusion Medicine (IDTM) SCO supports a traineeship for the Master for Management of Transfusion Medicine. The main focus of SCO is advising blood bank establishments on development of safe, effective and sustainable blood services and transfusion structures at national and regional level, including quality management.

Sanquin offers

  • Bachelor & master training programs
  • Inspiring colleagues
  • International academic environment
  • Multi-disciplinary research
  • Guest lectures and master classes by visiting researchers
  • Daily supervision
  • Modern equipment and facilities
  • State-of-the-art research techniques
  • The possibility to obtain a PhD position or become a laboratory technician

Sanquin expects

  • Enthusiasm
  • Commitment
  • Accuracy
  • Flexibility
  • Collegiality
  • Medical, life science, epidemiology, social science or laboratory training
  • Working knowledge of English
  • Research report/publication(s)/thesis
  • Research presentation

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