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We encourage everyone to apply for a place in the BioLAB Program.

The BioLAB Program offers one-year long (July to June/July) research traineeships to students enrolled in a Master or PhD degree programs in Poland in any area of biomedical sciences. Traineeships will be completed at one of the four host institutions in the U.S.: University of Virginia, University of Chicago, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation and UT Southwestern Medical Center.

The BioLAB Program (Visiting Research Graduate Traineeship Program) started in 2001 at the University of Virginia under the leadership of Professor Zygmunt Derewenda. In 2006, the University of Chicago became the second host institution in the United States, followed by the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation in 2013 and University of Texas, Southwestern in 2014.

Approximately 20% of BioLAB program’s graduates continued their studies at the Ph.D. level in the U.S., and another 20% were accepted to the top universities and research institutions in Europe, including Oxford, Cambridge, Max Planck and ETH. Overall, more than 90% of BioLAB participants have continued their careers at a Ph.D. level.

The program participants’ contributions include co-authoring numerous papers based on the research they conducted in the U.S.

The Polish-U.S. Fulbright Commission has administered the BioLAB Program since 2013. Grants are fully funded by host institutions.