[bioundgrd] FW: MIT DHIVE Summer Internship Program on Healthcare Entrepreneurship

[Joshua Stone]

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From: Mahnaz Maddah <mmaddah at mit.edu<mailto:mmaddah at mit.edu>>
Subject: MIT DHIVE Summer Internship Program on Healthcare Entrepreneurship
Date: March 15, 2022 at 12:50:31 PM EDT

Applications for MIT DHIVE<https://sandbox.mit.edu/dhive>, an 8-week healthcare entrepreneurship internship this summer, are open now. Please find the description of the opportunity below. MIT DHIVE is a new program focused on promoting healthcare innovations among MIT undergrad and graduate students.  I very much appreciate your help in spreading the word and sharing the announcement with students in your DLC. If you have any questions about the program, please email me or dhive-ops at mit.edu<mailto:dhive-ops at mit.edu>.

Many thanks,
-Mahnaz

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Mahnaz Maddah (She/Her), PhD
Director of MIT DHIVE (Dive into Healthcare Innovation and Venture Exploration) Program
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
292 Main Street, E38-489
Cambridge, MA 02142
https://sandbox.mit.edu/dhive


MIT Dive into Healthcare Innovation and Venture Exploration Program (DHIVE) [pronounced “dive”]
A Deep Dive into Healthcare Entrepreneurship
8-week Summer Internship Program June 6 – July 29, 2022
Applications are open now and will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Apply now!<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScf0g2xfbf70xXkyp7DQx2TgHyH1yeOlaBuGAjvSA1tUvA_zw/viewform>

MIT Sandbox is launching another exciting program focused on healthcare entrepreneurship! MIT DHIVE Summer 2022<https://sandbox.mit.edu/dhive>  invites undergraduate and graduate students who are interested in healthcare entrepreneurship to apply for an 8-week (6/6-7/29) sponsored internship program:
- Learn more about the needs and challenges of urgent health issues from the experts in the field
- Engage in ideation and team formation activities
- Transform ideas into viable solutions

DHIVE summer 2022 healthcare tracks:

  *   Down Syndrome and Similar Disabilities<https://sandbox.mit.edu/dhive-down-syndrome> enhance the lives of people with Down Syndrome and different intellectual abilities or challenges; offered in partnership with the MIT Deshpande Center
  *   Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)<https://sandbox.mit.edu/dhive-ibd> - empower patients and transform the approach to the maintenance of chronic diseases; offered in partnership with the MIT Center for Microbiome Informatics and Therapeutics
  *   Long Covid and Lyme Disease<https://sandbox.mit.edu/dhive-long-covid-lyme> – develop novel methods and technologies to address the range of issues caused by chronic infectious diseases
  *   Catalyst Health-Tech Innovation<https://sandbox.mit.edu/dhive-catalyst> – collaborate with Catalyst innovation teams to advance entrepreneurial health-tech projects, and engage with a diverse, international network of health care and technology leaders; a partnership with the MIT linQ Catalyst program.

Program highlights:

  *   8-week program June 6 - July 29
  *   Participation options:

     *   Paid Internship:

        *   Degree-seeking MIT graduate and undergraduate students from any department who can commit at least 20 hours/week.
        *   MIT graduate students on RAship who can devote 10 hours per week.

     *   Unpaid Internship:

        *   Anyone interested in biomedical innovation who is able to devote at least 10 hours per week.
        *   We welcome post-docs, non-MIT students, and non-students

  *   Educational talks focused on the challenges and unmet needs related to the DHIVE track
  *   Entrepreneurship-focused workshops and mentorship
  *   Opportunity to continue in MIT Sandbox<https://sandbox.mit.edu/> in the Fall.

Apply now!<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScf0g2xfbf70xXkyp7DQx2TgHyH1yeOlaBuGAjvSA1tUvA_zw/viewform>
Want to learn more?

  *   Visit DHIVE website<https://sandbox.mit.edu/dhive>
  *   Register for Info Session on Apr 1, 12 pm<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/290594404687>
  *   Email dhive-ops at mit.edu<mailto:dhive-ops at mit.edu> with your questions


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