Student Opportunities

If you are about to complete your degree and are looking to pursue a career in medical research then see the list of student opportunities. You can also see the student opportunities available for 2003 - 2004. (For interest, see also the list of student opportunities available in 2002.)

There are over 50 students undertaking postgraduate research here at the Hospital in a diverse range of laboratory and clinically based projects. The students are enrolled through a number of universities including The University of Sydney, University of Western Sydney, Macquarie University and Australian Catholic University. The degrees in which they are enrolled are also diverse.

The University of Sydney Clinical School (Faculty of Medicine, Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health) is located here at the Hospital - please visit their website.

Are you mid-way through a degree and want to see if medical research is for you?

We offer projects for vacation scholars.

We offer a range of expertise and technologies including:

• gene therapy and vector production
• gene knockout/transgenic technology (mouse genetic models)
• histopathology
• confocal microscopy and digital imaging
• quantitative PCR
• molecular diagnostics
• clinical trials
• paediatric MRI
• dual energy x-ray absorbtiometry (DXA) - densitometer
• data management.

For further information on research areas please read about our research groups or contact the Research Office on (02) 9845 1316.