Opportunities for Graduate Studies in Quantitative Biomedical Research

描述（由申请人提供）：这是一个与“2010年数学梦想会议”结合的会前研讨会的建议。该研讨会将包括大约50名本科生，从全国范围内医学研究代表性不足的群体（非裔美国人，西班牙裔美国人，美洲原住民等）以及他们的一些本科生导师招募。学生将被选中谁有兴趣在生物学和数学。优先支持来自少数民族服务机构的代表性不足的学生，这些机构没有广泛的生物医学研究资源和方案。会前研讨会将向他们介绍定量生物医学科学研究生学习的机会，包括生物统计学，数学生物学，生物信息学，遗传流行病学和生物医学工程。这些是重要的跨学科生物医学研究的快速增长领域，而本科生，特别是那些来自没有研究密集型生物医学组成部分的小型大学的本科生，并不总是熟悉这些机会。 相关性（见说明）：申请进入定量领域博士课程的美国学生短缺。该提案旨在解决定量生物医学研究中的这一具体短缺问题，方法是向代表性不足的少数民族本科生及其教师导师介绍生物医学工程、数学生物学、生物信息学、遗传流行病学和生物统计学方面有趣、令人兴奋和重要的研究。将鼓励学生申请研究生院，他们的教师导师将提供信息，他们可以在他们的家乡机构传播。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a proposal for a pre-conference workshop in conjunction with the "2010 Mathematical Field of Dreams Conference". The workshop will include approximately 50 undergraduate students, recruited nationwide from groups underrepresented in medical research (African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Native Americans and others) as well as some of their undergraduate mentors. Students will be selected who have an interest in both biology and mathematics. Priority for support will be given to underrepresented students from minority serving institutions without extensive resources and programs in biomedical research. The pre-conference workshop will introduce them to opportunities for graduate study in the quantitative biomedical sciences including biostatistics, mathematical biology, bioinformatics, genetic epidemiology, and biomedical engineering. These are rapidly growing areas of important interdisciplinary biomedical research, and undergraduates, especially those from small universities without a research intensive biomedical component, are not always familiar with these opportunities. RELEVANCE (See instructions): There is a shortage of American students applying to enter doctoral programs in quantitative fields. This proposal is to address this specific shortage in quantitative biomedical research by introducing underrepresented minority undergraduates and their faculty mentors to interesting, exciting, and important research in biomedical engineering, mathematical biology, bioinformatics, genetic epidemiology and biostatistics. Students will be encouraged to apply to graduate school and their faculty mentors will be provided with information that they may disseminate at their home institution.