MGHfC Digestive Disease Summer Research Program

描述（由申请人提供）：马萨诸塞州儿童总医院（MGHfC）寻求建立MGHfC消化疾病暑期研究项目，以便为10名本科或医学院水平的学生提供短期支持。在夏季的几个月里，每个学生将在MGHfC的实验室或合作实验室进行一个独立的研究项目，重点是消化系统疾病，为期十周。MGHfC的合作实验室是麻省总医院（MGH）社区内的实验室，这些实验室在工程和计算科学方面拥有独特的专业知识，目前正被用来支持以消化疾病研究为中心的各种项目。除了在夏季结束的研讨会上进行一个独立的项目，每个学生还将参加一个由同行驱动的分子细胞生物学课程，以及一个由教师和外部专业人士参与的关于生物医学职业的小组讨论。目前，15名对消化系统疾病感兴趣的MGH独立调查员已经同意在他们的实验室担任导师和接待学生。包括项目主任和副主任在内的六名MGHfC教师组成的顾问委员会将负责监督该项目，以及每年夏天招募和选择参与的学生。将特别努力吸引在生物医学科学领域代表性不足的个人参加暑期项目。

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.