CROSS-DISCIPLINARY UNDERGRADUATE BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH

描述(摘自应用)：NIH-NIGMS夏季研究经验 波士顿大学的本科生计划(NIH-SREU)将包括AS 指导NIH资助的14名教师，他们来自生物、化学和 心理学--生物化学与分子生物学的交叉专业 (BMB)，以及生物化学系和分子和细胞生物学系 波士顿大学医学中心(BUMC)。请拨10年的经费 本科生每年暑期四个暑期进行为期10周的生物医学 这些导师的实验室里的研究项目。学生与 非生物背景，工程、计算机专业 理科、数学、物理或化学将成为申请者中的一员 参与者将从其中选择。的具体目的和目标 该计划包括： 1.培养学生学习电脑运算的兴趣和能力 科学、物理科学或工程学在生物医学方面的职业生涯 他们的定量/物理科学训练和“湿实验室” 技能将是有用的，例如在新兴的生物信息学领域。 2.提高这些学生对生物和生物医学的认识 可以从以下合作中受益的研究问题 定量/物理科学家和生物/生物医学科学家。 3.为本科生学员提供学习机会 研究技能和观点，他们通常不会在 他们所在专业的正规课程。 4.帮助增加这类学生进入研究生课程的人数 在生物医学科学和代表这些学科交叉的领域 科学与更多的定量和物理科学。

DESCRIPTION (taken from application): The NIH-NIGMS Summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program (NIH-SREU) at Boston University will involve as mentors 14 NIH-funded faculty from the Departments of Biology, Chemistry and Psychology, the Interdisciplinary Major in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (BMB), and the Departments of Biochemistry and of Molecular and Cell Biology at the Boston University Medical Center (BUMC). Funding is requested for 10 undergraduates per summer for four summers to conduct 10-week, biomedical research projects in the laboratories of these mentors. Students with non-biological backgrounds and who are majoring in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, or Chemistry, will form the pool of applicants from which participants will be selected. The specific aims and objectives of this program are: 1. To facilitate the interest and ability of students trained in computational sciences, physical sciences or engineering to pursue careers in biomedicine in which both their quantitative/physical science training and "wet laboratory" skills will be useful, for example in the emerging field of Bioinfomatics. 2. To increase the awareness of these students about biological and biomedical research problems that can benefit from collaborations among quantitative/physical scientists and biological/biomedical scientists. 3. To provide an opportunity for the undergraduate participants to learn research skills and perspectives that they ordinarily would not gain during their regular course of study in their major. 4. To help increase the number of such students enrolling in graduate programs in the biomedical sciences and in areas representing the intersection of these sciences with the more quantitative and physical sciences.