MGHfC Digestive Disease Summer Research Program

描述(由申请人提供)：马萨诸塞州儿童综合医院(MGHfC)寻求建立MGHfC消化疾病暑期研究计划，以便为10名本科生或医学院水平的学生提供短期支持。每个学生将在夏季期间在MGHfC的实验室或合作实验室内进行为期十周的以消化系统疾病为重点的独立研究项目。MGHfC的合作实验室是马萨诸塞州总医院(MGH)社区内的实验室，拥有独特的工程和计算科学专业知识，目前正被用于支持各种以消化系统疾病研究为中心的项目。除了进行一个将在夏季结束的研讨会上正式介绍的独立项目外，每个学生还将参加一门由同行驱动的分子细胞生物学课程，以及由教师和外部专业人员参加的关于生物医学职业的小组讨论。目前，15名对消化疾病感兴趣的MGH独立研究人员已同意在夏季担任实验室的导师和招待学生。一个由六名麻省理工学院教职员工组成的顾问委员会，包括项目主任和副主任，将负责监督该项目，以及每年夏天招募和挑选参与该项目的学生。将特别努力吸引在生物医学科学中代表性不足的个人参加暑期计划。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Massachusetts General Hospital for Children (MGHfC) seeks to establish the MGHfC Digestive Disease Summer Research Program in order to provide short-term support for 10 students at the undergraduate or medical school level of training. Each student will perform an independent research project focused on digestive diseases over a ten week period during the summer months within a laboratory or collaborating laboratory of the MGHfC. Collaborating laboratories of the MGHfC are laboratories within the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) community that possess unique expertise in engineering and computational sciences currently being leveraged to support various projects centered on digestive disease research. In addition to conducting an independent project to be formally presented at a summer's end symposium, each student will participate in a peer-driven molecular cell biology course as well as a panel discussion on careers in biomedicine involving faculty and outside professionals. Currently 15 MGH independent investigators with interest in digestive diseases have agreed to serve as mentors and host students in their laboratories during the summer. An advisory board of six MGHfC faculty members including the program director and associate director will be responsible for overseeing the program as well as recruiting and selecting participating students each summer. Special efforts will be made to attract individuals that are underrepresented in the biomedical sciences to participate in the summer program.