A full-time research experience with professional development training to prepare you for a career as a physician-scientist.

2023 Applications Closed

Important Dates

  • 2023 Application season opens

    November 1
  • 2023 Student application deadline

    February 15
  • 2023 Letters of reference deadline

    February 15
  • Requests for interviews sent to applicants

    March 1
  • 2023 Program at JAX Bar Harbor begins

    Late August
The incoming cohort of 2024 Postbacc Fellows at JAX will be hosted on our Farmington, CT campus.

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Farmington, Connecticut

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Kamari Weaver

 

Undergraduate Institution: University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Undergraduate Major: Biochemistry

JAX PI: Christine Beck, Ph.D.

Research Focus at JAX: Investigating the consequences of structural variants within transposable element promoters across diverse genomes

Visit the BECK Lab

Zijian Li

 

Undergraduate Institution: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Undergraduate Major: Biochemistry

JAX PI: Travis Hinson, M.D.

Research focus at JAX: Investigating mutations associated with genetic cardiomyopathies using human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) model and studying cardiac regeneration with in vivo mouse model.

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Harsha Tamtam

 

Undergraduate Institution: Austin College

Undergraduate Major: Biochemistry

JAX PI: Michael Stitzel, Ph.D.

Research focus at JAX: Creating reporter and gene perturbation assays to observe Type II Diabetes (T2D) marker fluctuations in model beta-islet pancreatic cells in the context of single nuclear polymorphisms (SNPs).

Visit the STITZEL Lab