CHENNAI: As many as 21 B Tech bio-engineering
students
from
SRM
Institute of Science and Technology in Chennai will travel to prestigious
Harvard Medical School
in the US on a six-month
internship
in January.
They got the invitation from Harvard Medical School after expressing their project interests and profiles.
Meghma Mukherjee, one of the students, said, “I will observe behaviour of cancer cells in response to different treatments and how they interact with our immune system during the internship.”
The university said though some students had been benefited from Harvard internships in past years, this was the first time a large number of students had received the internship.
They will be mentored by Shiladitya Sengupta, head, Laboratory of Cancer Nano Medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The hospital is a teaching facility of the Harvard Medical School.