What is a laboratory rotation?
Laboratory rotations are designed to expose a first-year graduate student to a new research area or laboratory technique and identification of a laboratory in which to perform his or her dissertation research. Most USA universities require incoming graduate students to perform 3-4 laboratory rotations. Laboratory rotations should only be performed with investigators that would be able to accept the student for dissertation research starting in the second year of graduate education. Rotations must be approved by the NIH and university Partnership Directors as well as the NIH investigator’s Scientific Director through the GPP.
