BBSI HST-MGH Summer Institute for Biomedical Optics

该奖项为为期三年的连续奖项提供支持，该奖项是马萨诸塞州理工学院（MIT）生物工程和生物信息学暑期研究所（BBSI）项目的延续，名为“BBSI HST-MGH生物医学光学暑期研究所”，由Martha L.格雷 哈佛-麻省理工学院健康科学与技术部（HST）和马萨诸塞州总医院（MGH）的韦尔曼光医学中心将为36名本科生和研究生举办为期九周的暑期课程，每年12名，为期三年。 该计划的目标是提高本科生物科学和工程专业学生对生物医学工程研究的认识，特别是生物医学光学，在他们的教育的关键路口。 该计划将包括生物医学光学教学计划，在哈佛或麻省理工学院附属研究实验室的研究经验，专业发展活动和网络机会。 HST-MGH生物医学光学暑期研究所通过将他们暴露于生物医学光学的新领域，以预期和意想不到的方式拓宽了每个参与者未来的职业选择。 学生体验生物医学光学研究的范围和性质，并在本科生一般无法获得的高级水平上参与该研究，并接触到在生物医学工程和临床应用的界面上选择研究的榜样。 除了对个人参与者的转化作用外，该计划还增加了HST教育计划与MGH医院实验室研究人员之间的合作。该项目由数学和物理科学理事会（MPS）/多学科活动办公室（OMA）和物理部，工程理事会（ENG）/工程教育和中心（EEC），以及国立卫生研究院（NIH）/国立生物医学成像和生物工程研究所（NIBIB）。

This award provides support for a three year continuing award, a renewal of the Bioengineering and Bioinformatics Summer Institutes (BBSI) program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) entitled, "BBSI HST-MGH Summer Institute for Biomedical Optics," under the direction of Dr. Martha L. Gray. The Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) and the Wellman Center for Photomedicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) will host a nine week summer program for a total of 36 undergraduate and graduate students, 12 per year, for a total of three years. The goal of this program is to raise undergraduate biological science and engineering students' awareness of biomedical engineering research, and specifically of biomedical optics, at a critical junction in their education. The program will include a didactic program in Biomedical Optics, a research experience in a Harvard- or MIT-affiliated research lab, professional development activities, and networking opportunities. The HST-MGH Summer Institute in Biomedical Optics broadens each participant's future career options in expected and unexpected ways by exposing them to the novel field of biomedical optics. The students experience the scope and nature of biomedical optics research and participate in that research at an advanced level not generally available to undergraduates and are exposed to role models who have chosen research at the interface of biomedical engineering and clinical applications. In addition to its transforming effect on individual participants, this program has increased collaborations between HST's educational programs and researchers in hospital-based laboratories at MGH.This project is being co-funded by the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS)/Office of Multidisiciplinary Activities (OMA) and the Division of Physics, the Directorate for Engineering (ENG)/Division of Engineering Education and Centers (EEC), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH)/National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB).