Ex Vivo Internships

What is an Ex Vivo Internship?

An ex vivo internship sits between in vitro and in vivo work. You handle living tissues, organs, or primary cells freshly harvested from a donor organism, keeping them functionally alive for experimental observation outside the body. The realism of in vivo, with the experimental control of in vitro.

What you will do

• Prepare and maintain isolated tissue or organ cultures (perfused or static)
• Run pharmacological or biochemical assays on viable tissue preparations
• Perform sectioning, staining, and microscopic evaluation of post-experiment samples
• Interpret tissue-level responses to test compounds or stimuli
• Document every step with research-grade record-keeping

Who this is for

Students of pharmacy, pharmacology, biotechnology, life sciences, and biomedical engineering who want experience with primary biological material without the full regulatory weight of in vivo work. Particularly suited to anyone aiming at preclinical research roles.

What you take away

• NTHRYS internship certificate detailing your ex vivo project
• Skills in tissue isolation, perfusion, and post-fixation processing
• Understanding of how ex vivo data complements in vitro and in vivo evidence
• Project report ready for academic submission

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