This summer, one student will have the opportunity to participate in a research internship in Germany.
Phil Craigmile, a sophomore studying biological sciences in the Honors Tutorial College, will travel to Germany as the winner of the DAAD RISE award, a German internship program based in Bonn.
Craigmile will work in a research lab with a graduate student to “characterize the mechanism that causes lung cancer radio resistance,” he said.
Craigmile said his research experience at Ohio University helped him get into the program.
“Not many other schools I looked at would allow me to be a sophomore doing this research,” he said.
Craigmile has been researching radiation therapy and its effectiveness in breast cancer patients while working for ShinHee Lee, a postdoctoral fellow at OU.
“He’s very smart, he has a lot of knowledge and now he has expertise in the field,” Lee said. “I’m sure he will get a lot of things out of his time in Germany.”
Craigmile considered several other internships before Germany.
“The DAAD RISE award is so prestigious because it allows undergraduates in STEM fields an all-expense-paid, hands-on research internship in Germany,” said Laura Schaeffer, fellowship advisor and director of special programs in the Honors Tutorial College.
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