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MIT DHIVE is an educational internship program that provides an opportunity for MIT students to dive into healthcare entrepreneurship. MIT DHIVE Summer 2022 invites undergraduate and graduate students who are interested in healthcare entrepreneurship to apply for an 8-week (6/6-7/29) sponsored internship program: - Learn more about the needs and challenges of urgent health issues from the experts in the field - Engage in ideation and team formation activities - Transform ideas into viable solutions DHIVE summer 2022 healthcare tracks: 1. Down Syndrome and Similar Disabilities enhance the lives of people with Down Syndrome and different intellectual abilities or challenges; offered in partnership with the MIT Deshpande Center 2. Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) - empower patients and transform the approach to the maintenance of chronic diseases; offered in partnership with the MIT Center for Microbiome Informatics and Therapeutics 3. Long Covid and Lyme Disease – develop novel methods and technologies to address the range of issues caused by chronic infectious diseases 4. Catalyst Health-Tech Innovation – collaborate with Catalyst innovation teams to advance entrepreneurial health-tech projects, and engage with a diverse, international network of health care and technology leaders; a partnership with the MIT linQ Catalyst program. Program highlights: - 8-week program June 6 - July 29 - Educational talks focused on the challenges and unmet needs related to the DHIVE track - Entrepreneurship-focused workshops and mentorship Opportunity to continue in MIT Sandbox in the Fall. Participation options: Paid Internship: - Degree-seeking MIT graduate and undergraduate students from any department who can commit at least 20 hours/week. - MIT graduate students on RAship who can devote 10 hours per week. Unpaid Internship: - Anyone interested in biomedical innovation who is able to devote at least 10 hours per week. - We welcome post-docs, non-MIT students, and non-students