Prospective Students
Educational opportunities in cancer research laboratories.
Graduate Student Cancer Research Opportunities
There are currently 39 primary faculty cancer researchers who are directly supported by the Cancer Center and an additional 10 faculty who receive indirect support through BCC endowments, space and/or administrative support. All Cancer Center faculty members have primary or secondary appointments in basic science departments, and all are eligible to mentor graduate students enrolled in those departments. Please reach out to individual faculty members listed on our Research Programs pages to enquire if their laboratories are currently accepting students.
Apply for basic science graduate programs
For prospective graduate students interested in applying for basic science graduate programs here at the University of Louisville, please visit the Graduate Programs Catalog.
Summer Internship Program
UofL’s Brown Cancer Center (BCC) recently concluded it’s 2025 High School Summer Research Program (HSSRP) with a very successful Student Poster Session on July 25th and the Annual Brown Cancer Center Research Retreat on August 22nd. A total of twenty high school students were selected to join our program this year and high schools represented included: Atherton, Butler, Christian Academy of Louisville, Collegiate, Fern Creek, Jeffersontown, Kentucky Country Day, Male, Martha Lane Collins (Shelbyville KY), duPont Manual, New Albany (IN), Sacred Heart, Seneca, and Waggener.
Please check back later this year for information on how to apply to next year’s 2026 BCC HSSRP which will be open to all high school sophomores, juniors and seniors in and around the Jefferson County Metro area. Please note that only students who will be 16 years or older by June 1st, 2026, will be eligible to apply.