CVPath is a medical research Nonprofit located in Gaithersburg Maryland which specializes in Cardiovascular Research. (https://www.cvpath.org/) The position is located in our medical archives and will involve support of archival staff in receiving, inventorying, and preparing materials and the associated paperwork for study or shipment to other facilities. The position also involves a lot of work with our tissue storage room, so the perspective candidate should be someone comfortable working with medical specimens and able to follow laboratory procedures for handling tissue fixed in 10% Formalin (proper safety equipment and training would be provided). There will be work in inventorying, rehousing, and identifying materials for either long term storage or deaccession as per our retention schedule. They also may create finding aids, digitize certain materials, and have the opportunity to shadow professionals at other points in a medical research nonprofit. This Internship includes a stipend.

Email us at sharkless@cvpath.org or Kburack@cvpath.org with an introduction and current resume and our staff will review. Applicants who meet our criteria will be contacted by our HR director for further interview. Ideally, we would like to have an intern over summer so the application process will likely move quickly.