CROSS-DISCIPLINARY UNDERGRADUATE BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH

描述（取自申请）：NIH-NIGMS夏季研究经验 波士顿大学的本科生项目（NIH-SREU）将涉及 导师14 NIH资助的教师从生物学，化学和 心理学，生物化学与分子生物学的交叉学科专业 (BMB)，以及生物化学系和分子与细胞生物学系， 波士顿大学医学中心（BUMC）申请资金10 本科生每年夏天四个夏天进行10周，生物医学 在这些导师的实验室里进行研究项目。学生 非生物背景，主修工程，计算机 科学，数学，物理，或化学，将形成申请人的池 将从中选出参与者。的具体目标和目的 这些方案是： 1.提高学生在计算机方面的兴趣和能力， 科学，物理科学或工程学，以追求生物医学事业， 他们的定量/物理科学训练和“湿实验室” 技能将是有用的，例如在生物信息学的新兴领域。 2.提高这些学生对生物和生物医学的认识 研究问题，可以受益于合作， 定量/物理科学家和生物/生物医学科学家。 3.为本科学员提供学习的机会 研究技能和观点，他们通常不会获得在 他们的专业的常规课程。 4.帮助增加这些学生进入研究生课程的人数 在生物医学科学和代表这些交叉点的领域， 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.