My affiliation with FERMENT - student research group - and the roles I performed in it also made a good impression
I was its vice president for a year, currently participating in scientific projects - one I am a coordinator. I think that the activities in student research groups and the associated number of projects in which I participated showcased me as a hard-working person. If it were not for the student research group activities, I would not have considered participating in such a program.
Aleksandra Kosmider presented herself well at an interview with the coordinators of American universities, which took place at the headquarters of the Fulbright Foundation in Warsaw. On this basis, she was offered to participate in the work of the scientific team of Dr. Jose Alberol-Il, who is conducting research in the field of immunology. “The project in which I will participate aims to characterize a new group of lymphoid cells and to study its role in the course of infection with the influenza virus,” explains the young researcher, who will spend a year in the laboratory at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation.
The BioLab program is one-year internships for students in bio-chemical, biophysical, and medical sciences at four U.S. scientific institutions: University of Virginia, University of Chicago, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, and UT Southwestern Medical Center. The program is attended annually by about 40-50 students and students from Poland recruited in open recruitment. The results of research conducted during the internship often become the basis for articles published in peer-reviewed scientific journals such as: Nature, Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics or Acta Crystallographica.
The Polish-American Fulbright Commission has been a partner of the program since 2013. The BioLab program is entirely funded by host institutions that directly sign contracts with invited interns.