37 students from the School of Science at the University of Navarra were able to complete internships last summer at 26 research centers. Some of them also received financial aid such as SIP scholarships—awarded by the School itself—Erasmus scholarships, or PIN scholarships, which are granted by the Government of Navarra.

Ana Guijarro is one of them. Graduated in Biochemistry ('18), in summer she has been at the University of California doing an internship. There she has developed her work in the department of Neurosurgery with a group researching in the area of gene therapy.

"During the internship," he details, "I've found that what the School has taught me - how to work in a team and do science honestly - can help you in any status that comes up on a laboratory".

Ana applied for, and was granted, the scholarship SIP. "I think it is a great initiative to encourage students to go abroad. It has helped me to finance part of my stay there and I am very grateful that the School has granted it to me," says Ana.

Diego Sucunza (Biology '13), on the other hand, is graduate at Biochemistry and is currently working on thesis at School Medicine. In summer he has been doing a stay at the DZNE, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, in Germany.

Diego summarizes his stay in that it has allowed him "to apply the theory we knew about gene therapy and to be able to look critically at which experiments are the most suitable in the area in which development my thesis ".

Finally, Mikel Galduroz (Biochemistry '17), did his summer internship in the UK. Mikel says that at Quadram Institute Bioscience he has learned "new techniques from laboratory. In addition, I have been able to perfect others that I already knew".

For him, his stay "has been a very enriching experience, both professionally and staff. Something necessary, in my opinion, for any student today".