QB3 at UC Santa Cruz (QB3-Santa Cruz) partners with local biotech companies and on-campus labs to offer hands-on summer internships to UC Santa Cruz undergraduates. Applicants must be freshmen, sophomores or juniors and returning to UCSC in Fall 2025. QB3-Santa Cruz seeks top applicants for 10-week paid internship positions, where students will learn scientific techniques and contribute to state-of-the-art interdisciplinary research projects. Interns become paid, full-time fellows at the biotech company or UCSC student employees if working on campus for the duration of the internship. The program consists of orientation events, placement with a local biotechnology company or UC Santa Cruz core facility, in-program social and cohort building activities, and post-program presentations. For more information and to apply please visit the *QB3-UCSC website.