Welcome to the Genomics Student Lab!

A different way of doing an internship

A unique connection between industry and the university

The Genomics Student Lab is a research training lab for and by students where the University of Amsterdam is directly linked to non-academic partners in the various sectors such as diagnostics, pharmaceutics, plant-breeding companies, etc...

It combines academic environment and innovative questions from the non-academic environment in a way that gives both students and external partners many advantages.

Advantages for students:

• Experience working in the frame of a project where often a non-academic partner defines the research question;
• Potential experience with R&D and with scientists of industry;
• Preparation to a career within or outside of academia;
• Experience with functioning in a multidisciplinary project;
• Learning to deal with (new) own responsibilities within a project;
• Enjoying the availability of experts from diverse topics and domains;
• Being also guided in personal awareness regarding skills, ambition, education and career choices;
• A distinguishing educational edge compared to other students.

Advantages for companies:

• Having the opportunity to contribute to education in the direction of a career in industry;
• Meeting and educating potential future employees at an early stage;
• Defining your own research projects that will be executed at the university;
• Setting up research project independent from the topics of interest of UvA research groups;
• Getting interesting results for free;
• Gaining natural access to academic experts and their knowledge;