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Dear Professor Solheim,

I hope this email finds you well. My name is Tanvi, and I am a highly motivated, detail-oriented, and passionate student eager to delve into the ever-evolving landscape of scientific research.

Your groundbreaking work in biology deeply resonates with me. It's not just innovative—it's a testament to your unwavering commitment to the field.

I am confident I would be a valuable addition to your esteemed lab. Thank you for your time and consideration!

Warm regards, Tanvi

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Dear Professor Solheim,

I’m an undergraduate biochemistry student at the University of Toronto, graduating in 2027. Your paper on small heat-shock proteins shows that they hold partly folded intermediates so the Hsp70 system can refold them after heat stress, and that cells without them recover more slowly.

I mapped stress-response mutants in budding yeast using a heat-shock growth assay and presented the results as a poster. I’d like to learn how your group combines yeast genetics with in vitro refolding assays to study chaperone function.

Would you have room for an undergraduate researcher this summer?

Best regards, Tanvi Deshpande

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100,000+ students use Prof Insider to land research positions

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    October 2, 2026

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What Prof Insider does and what happens when you reach out.

Prof Insider has the most accurate, verified professor database. We build it in-house instead of pulling it from free public databases, which list anyone who has published, including grad students and postdocs. It covers 188 US and Canadian universities, 26 of them in Canada, with recent papers, lab pages, and contact details where we can match them.

We read your resume and the research interests you pick at signup, then compare them with each professor's field and recent papers. Every professor lands in match or skip, and your matches are sorted by how close the fit is.

High school, undergraduate, and graduate students looking for research positions. You tell us your stage when you sign up, and drafts are written for it. A first-year asking to volunteer in a lab should sound different from a master's student asking about a PhD.

No. Coursework, class projects, a relevant job, or a club you ran all count. Drafts work from what is actually on your resume, so you never have to pretend to be further along than you are.

A chatbot writes the same email for every lab. Each Prof Insider draft is built from the professor's recent papers and your resume, and names the specific work that connects the two. No “I hope this email finds you well.”

Yes. Edit the draft yourself, or tell the agent what to change, like “make it shorter” or “mention my robotics project,” and it rewrites. You approve the final version.

No. You approve your emails before they go out. When a professor replies, the agent drafts a response and holds it for your review.

Yes. You connect your Gmail and emails send from your own account. They show up in your Sent folder, and replies land in your inbox like any other email.

More than feels comfortable. Plenty of professors never reply, often just because they are busy, so students who land positions usually reach out to many labs. Prof Insider makes that possible without writing every email by hand.

Spam is the same message sent to everyone. Each email here is written for one professor, about their work, from your own address, and only goes to professors who match your background.

No. Professors decide who joins their labs, and many have no open spots in a given term. We help you reach more of the right people with better emails. The decision is theirs.

Your resume is used to match you with professors and write your drafts. Gmail access is used to send your emails from your address. You can disconnect Gmail at any time.