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Interested in MD/PhD Training?

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The HEART MD/PhD Summer Program at Harvard and MIT is a fully-funded summer program for undergraduate students interested in MD/PhD training to become physician-scientists. The program offers 10 weeks of full-time research, clinical shadowing, and professional development workshops including sessions on the MCAT, personal statement, and medical school interviews.

Applications are now being accepting for the 2025 summer program, and the application deadline is February 1st, 2025.

Link to HEART website: https://www.hms.harvard.edu/md_phd/heart/index.html

Link to HEART application process: https://www.hms.harvard.edu/md_phd/heart/admissions.html

Summer Programs @ MSU’s College of Veterinary Medicine

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Enrichment Summer Program

A three-week veterinary experience program that focuses on leadership development, academic preparation and career knowledge and is designed for junior and senior undergraduate students who will complete all their science pre-requisites by the end of spring semester 2025. The 2025 program dates are June 1st through 20th. The deadline to apply is Application Deadline is January 31, 2025. 

Visit our website for more information.

Biomedical Research for University Students in Health Sciences (BRUSH) Summer Program

BRUSH is a vibrant summer research program that focuses on experiential learning as well as community building and professional development by:  

  • providing students an immersive, mentored research experience, 
  • explicitly facilitating the establishment of networks of mentors and peers to create a supportive community, and 
  • intentionally fostering participants’ success to give them tools and confidence to pursue biomedical and science-based educational and career goals.  

The goal of this program is to provide hands-on research exposure and graduate or professional school preparation opportunities for undergraduate students who are from populations that are underrepresented in biomedical research. Underrepresented populations include American Indian or Alaska Native, Black or African American, Hispanic or Latino American, Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander, as well as students with disabilities or financially disadvantaged backgrounds.

Further program details are available through this link.   

The application is available online and applications will be accepted through February 3, 2025.  

  

  

  

  

  

Biomedical Research Programs at OUHSC

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Interested in pursuing a PhD in the Biomedical Sciences, please consider the programs at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. OUHSC is a comprehensive medical campus home to cutting edge research facilities and top-tier scientists. Their 2.5:1 PhD student-to-post-doc ratio equates to students being the major drivers of our research enterprise, as evidenced by our publication numbers (5.3 manuscripts per PhD graduate!). For 2025, this center will host the following programs: Graduate Program in Biomedical Sciences (GPiBS), Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program (PREP), and multiple Summer Undergraduate Research Programs (SURP).

GPiBS

The application for the 2025 GPiBS class opened on August 1st with a priority deadline of December 1st. Interested? Utilize the GPiBS website or reach out to us directly at GPIBS@ouhsc.edu for additional information or questions.

PREP

The Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program (PREP) is an NIGMS-funded program designed to prepare trainees for gaining admission and succeeding in biomedical PhD programs. Viable participants may lack research training, academic preparation, or simply don’t feel ready to for graduate school. PREP is a great stepping-stone towards a PhD or MD/PhD program. The application for the 2025 cohort opened October 1st with a deadline of March 1st, 2025 (highly recommended to apply earlier!)

More information can be found at the PREP website or by contacting us at PREP@ouhsc.edu.

SURP

The Summer Undergraduate Research Programs (SURP) will continue offering 6 programs next summer. The SURP applications opened October 1st with a deadline of January 22nd, 2025. More information about our summer programs can be found at the SURP website or by contacting us at SURP@ouhsc.edu.

Lewis Scholars Imhotep (LSI) Project!

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Applications for the LSI Project at Morehouse College’s Public Health Sciences Institute (PHSI) are open for the 2024 summer program! The LSI Project offers a unique opportunity for undergraduate junior, senior and recent graduates to engage in innovative research and gain valuable experience in public health. As a dedicated team committed to fostering future leaders in public health, we invite all enthusiastic students to apply!  

The application deadline is January 31, 2024, and interested students can submit their application on our website at https://slate.morehouse.edu/register/lsiproject2024.  

To learn more about the program and apply, please click here to visit the LSI Project Program Website!

Summer Undergraduate Research Programs (SURP)

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The Summer Undergraduate Research Programs (SURP) are great opportunities to engage in a biomedical research at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. The SURP applications deadline is January 31st, 2024.

More information about our summer programs can be found at the SURP website or by contacting us at SURP@ouhsc.edu.

SURP highlights:

  • $5,000 summer salary
  • Full-time research at OUHSC
  • Weekly enrichment sessions
  • Final Symposium and luncheon

UM-SMART Summer Research Program

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UM-SMART is 10-week summer undergraduate research program designed for undergraduate students who have an interest in obtaining a combined MD/PhD degree leading to a career in academic medicine as a physician-scientist performing basic research relevant to human health and disease. The goal of the UM-SMART program is to help students decide if a career as a physician-scientist is right for them, and to enhance competitiveness when applying to MD/PhD programs.  

To learn more about this program and to apply visit the UM-SMART website for more information.

Application deadline:  January 19, 2024

Program dates:  May 28-Aug 2, 2024

Applicants belonging to groups that have been traditionally underrepresented in biomedical research are strongly encouraged to apply. This includes:  Individuals from underrepresented racial or ethnic groups, individuals with disabilities, such as those with a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities, and individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds such as family annual income below established low-income thresholds, or an educational environment that has inhibited the individual from obtaining the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to develop and participate in a research career.

Summer Program in Neuroscience

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2022 Summer Program in Neuroscience (SPIN ’22) is an on-site, 8-week intensive program in neuroscience offered by the Departments of Neurosurgery and Neurology at Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center, and the Graduate Program for Neuroscience (GPN) at Boston University.

Benefits: SPIN students are exposed daily to the function and organization of the brain from a clinical perspective alongside neurologists, neurosurgeons, neuro radiologists and neuropathologists in the hospital and operating rooms. These experiences are complemented by weekly neuroscience and neuroanatomy didactic sessions utilizing clinical cases and human brain dissections. In addition, students are paired with a clinical or research faculty member to pursue their own, mentored research projects in neuroscience that are organized by GPN, whose faculty are in labs across multiple BU schools and campuses. State of the art research is conducted in topic areas from Alzheimer’s disease to drug addiction, human brain imaging, learning and memory, and the computational modeling of dynamic circuits. From this unique mix of clinical and laboratory experiences, SPIN students gain an understanding of the human brain from several perspectives and develop insights about the relationship of basic research and medicine. Past participants have described the experience as transformative and many have pursued doctoral training in the clinical and/or basic neurosciences.

Program Details

  • Program Dates: June 6 – July 29, 2022
  • Tuition: $4,000 (room and board not included)
  • Application Deadline: March 14, 2022

Eligibility: SPIN is open to undergraduate students with backgrounds in the basic sciences including neurobiology, computer science, mathematics, and engineering. Admission is based on academic performance, letters of recommendation, and a personal statement. Program administrators will assist students requiring housing and board in Boston for the duration of the course.   We celebrate an open and transparent environment for learning and welcome students with diverse ideas and culture.

For more information, please visit the SPIN website by clicking this link.

Cancer-focused Summer Undergraduate Research (CanSUR)

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The Case Comprehensive Cancer Center is accepting applications for the new Cancer-focused Summer Undergraduate Research Program (CanSUR). This program
offers a unique, immersive experience that will help prepare highly motivated undergraduates for a career in cancer research.

PROGRAM COMPONENTS

  • Hands-on mentored cancer research experience including project development, execution, interpretation, and reporting of results.
  • Week-long “cancer research bootcamp” devoted to interactive cancer research lectures.
  • Weekly lunches organized around scientific and career enhancement topics.
  • Dinner with fellow students, scholars and residents to learn about diverse cancer career opportunities.
  • Presentation of final research project findings at CanSUR Scholar Symposium.

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

  • Each summer CanSUR will support 32 undergraduates for a 10-week period (June through August) .
  • Undergraduates from across the country are encouraged to apply for the opportunity to work with one of 60 research experts from the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center.
  • Scholars will receive a stipend of $4,000 for the summer. Additional housing and travel allowances are available for select participants.

For more information visit cancer.case.edu/training-education/cansur

2021 University of Michigan Frankel Cardiovascular Center Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship

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The University of Michigan Frankel Cardiovascular Center (FCVC) plans to offer a 10-week Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) for the summer of 2021. Each research fellow will be matched, based on their interests, to a laboratory that is led by a FCVC faculty member. Please click here to learn more about the collection of laboratories involved in internationally recognized research in topics such as atherosclerosis, genetic cardiomyopathies, blood clotting disorders, cardiac arrhythmias, vascular biology, and heart failure.  The stipend will be $4,000 for ten weeks of full-time work, typically starting the Tuesday after Memorial Day and ending the first week of August (exact program dates pending). The program includes:

  • scientific seminars,
  • social events, and a
  • two-day research symposium where fellows present their research to their peers and FCVC faculty and staff.

The application link closes January 31, 2021 at 11:59pm EST. Please click here to apply for the FCVC SURF program.

For questions, please reach out to fcvc-surf@med.umich.edu.