MGHfC Digestive Disease Summer Research Program

项目总结/摘要 2015年，马萨诸塞州儿童总医院（MGHfC）成立了MGHfC消化疾病中心。 暑期研究计划的目标是为10名本科生和/或 医学生进行导师监督的独立研究，在一个研究型的设置， 教学医院学生执行一个独立的研究项目，重点是消化系统疾病的全面- 在夏季的几个月里，在实验室或合作实验室内， MGHfC教师。MGHfC的合作实验室是马萨诸塞州总医院的实验室 医院（MGH）社区，目前拥有独特的专业知识，在工程和计算科学 被用来支持以消化系统疾病研究为中心的各种项目。除了进行 一个独立的项目将在夏季结束的研讨会上正式提出，每个学生参加一个 同行驱动的生物医学课程，题为"免疫，微生物和粘膜"，以及小组讨论 由教师和生物医学专业人员促进的生物医学职业。目前22 MGH独立 对消化系统疾病感兴趣的研究人员担任导师，并在他们的 实验室自2015年以来顾问委员会，包括项目主任、副主任和教员 一名成员负责监督该计划以及招募和选择参与学生 每年夏天。MGHfC消化系统疾病暑期项目招募了大约50名学生 自成立以来，该提案一直在美国各地寻求资金支持， 继续这一计划的目标是招募和培训至少50名额外的学生超过 未来五年一些以前的学生在生物医学科学方面的背景不足 职业和战略已经到位，继续招募这一重要的未来研究人员进入该领域， 消化系统疾病我们的目标是继续让本科生和医学生沉浸在一个结构化的 和密集的研究经验，这将有助于鼓励他们不断寻求机会， 发展他们的科学和研究技能，因为他们在职业生涯中前进，并激励他们最终 成为生物医学研究队伍的一部分，从而加强生物医学研究队伍。

PROJECT SUMMARY / ABSTRACT In 2015, Massachusetts General Hospital for Children (MGHfC) established the MGHfC Digestive Disease Summer Research Program with the objective of providing short-term support for 10 undergraduate and/or medical students to conduct mentor-supervised independent research in the setting of a research-oriented teaching hospital. Students perform an independent research project focused on digestive diseases on a full- time basis over a ten-week period during the summer months within a laboratory or collaborating laboratory of MGHfC faculty. 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 participates in a peer-driven biomedical course entitled “Immunity, Microbes, & the Mucosa” as well as a panel discussion on careers in biomedicine facilitated by faculty and biomedical professionals. Currently 22 MGH independent investigators with interest in digestive diseases serve as mentors and have hosted students in their laboratories since 2015. An advisory board that includes the program director, associate director, and a faculty member is responsible for overseeing the program as well as recruiting and selecting participating students each summer. The MGHfC Digestive Disease Summer Program has recruited approximately fifty students from regions throughout the United States since its inception and this proposal seeks funding to support the continuation of this program with the objective of recruiting and training at least fifty additional students over the next five years. Several former students are of backgrounds under-represented in biomedical science careers and strategies are in place to continue to recruit this vital cohort of future researchers into the field of digestive diseases. Our goal is to continue to immerse undergraduates and medical students in a structured and intensive research experience that will serve to encourage them to continually seek opportunities to develop their scientific and research skills as they move forward in their careers and inspire them to ultimately become part of and thereby reinforce the biomedical research workforce.