Research Support for Biomedical Careers at CCNY

CCNY的RISE项目支持本科生、硕士和博士生。自上一次 资助期我们在本科生和硕士生毕业方面取得了重大进展 毕业后进入博士课程。博士生毕业与工作的及时性 毕业生的安置仍然是Rise计划的一个重要部分。我们相信在这方面的进展 提拔学生进入博士生项目反映了更严格的候选人筛选过程 已投身医疗事业或从事与生物医学无关的其他领域的学生 研究。为此，加强候选人遴选和咨询程序是 本提案中的RISE方案的基石。我们还将采取更积极主动的方法来 应聘者招聘情况比以往任何时候都要好。和过去一样，学生们将被安排在实验室里 在CCNY，他们将在教职员工的指导下开展研究项目 化学、生物化学、生物学、物理学和地球科学。然而，在下一个资助期，学生们 由于伦敦城市大学最近的一项倡议，将有机会获得大大增强的导师库 纽约将发展科学基础设施，特别是在迅速扩大的结构领域 生物学。选择从事结构生物学项目的学生将有机会接触到最新的 在新建成的纽约结构生物学中用于生物分子结构分析的仪器 中心。此外，城市学院最近与纪念斯隆·凯特琳癌症公司建立了合作伙伴关系 该中心为学生创造了在癌症研究方面获得实践经验的新机会 国际公认的癌症中心。与合作伙伴关系相结合，城市学院开发了新的 癌症生物学和生物技术课程，将激发人们对癌症的更多认识和兴趣 研究。其中有一门独特的社会营销课程，让学生直接与 哈莱姆的少数族裔社区，以解决与癌症发病率和 预防。由于Rise是一个少数群体服务计划，我们预计这将允许学生连接到 以一种更个人化的方式展示这一领域。我们预计，这也将开启行为研究的新领域， 可以在未来作为RISE计划的常规部分纳入。

The RISE program at CCNY supports undergraduate, masters and doctoral students. Since the previous funding period we have made significant progress in graduating undergraduates and masters students who entered doctoral programs after graduation. Graduation of doctoral students in a timely manner and job placement of the graduates remains a strong part of the RISE program. We believe that the progress in promoting of students into doctoral programs reflects a more stringent candidate selection process to screen out students who are already committed to medical careers or careers in other fields unrelated to biomedical research. For this reason strengthening the processes of candidate selection and advisement is one of the cornerstones of the RISE program in the present proposal. We will also institute a more proactive approach to candidate recruitment than has been true before. As in the past, students will be placed in laboratories at CCNY where they will carry out research projects under the mentorship of faculty in the departments of Chemistry, Biochemistry, Biology, Physics and Earth Science. However, in the next funding period students will have access to a greatly enhanced pool of mentors owing to a recent initiative by the City University of New York to develop infrastructure in the sciences, particularly in the rapidly expanding area of structural biology. Students who choose to work on projects in structural biology will have access to state-of-the-art instrumentation for structural analyses of biomolecules at the newly constructed New York Structural Biology Center. In addition, City College has recently established a partnership with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center that has created new opportunities for students to gain hands-on experience in cancer research at an internationally recognized cancer center. In conjunction with the partnership, City College has developed new courses in cancer biology and biotechnology that will spur greater awareness of, and interest in, cancer research. Among these is a unique course in social marketing that involves students in direct interaction with the minority community in Harlem to address issues of health disparities relating to cancer incidence and prevention. Since RISE is a minority serving program we anticipate that this will allow students to connect to the field in a more personal way. We anticipate that this will also open a new area of behavioral research that can be incorporated as a regular part of the RISE program in the future.