MGHfC Digestive Disease Summer Research Program

项目摘要/摘要 2015年，马萨诸塞州儿童总医院(MGHfC)成立了MGHfC消化系统疾病 暑期研究计划，目标是为10名本科生和/或 医学生在导师指导下开展自主研究的设置 教学医院。学生们进行一项独立的研究项目，重点是全面研究消化疾病- 在夏季的几个月中，在实验室或合作实验室内的十周时间内 麻省理工学院教职员工。MGHfC的合作实验室是马萨诸塞州总医院内的实验室 目前在工程和计算科学方面拥有独特专业知识的医院(MGH)社区 支持以消化系统疾病研究为中心的各种项目。除了指挥 一个独立的项目，将在暑期结束的研讨会上正式展示，每个学生都参加一个 题为“免疫、微生物和粘膜”的同行驱动生物医学课程，以及关于 在教师和生物医学专业人员的推动下从事生物医学的职业。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 自2015年以来一直在实验室工作。由项目主任、副主任和一名教职员工组成的顾问委员会 会员负责监督该计划以及招募和挑选参与计划的学生 每年夏天。MGHfC消化疾病暑期项目招收了大约50名学生 这项提案寻求资金来支持 继续这项计划，目标是招收和培训至少50名以上学生 接下来的五年。几个以前的学生的背景在生物医学科学中的代表性不足 职业和战略已经到位，以继续招募这一至关重要的未来研究人员队伍进入 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结构化的 和密集的研究经验，这将有助于鼓励他们继续寻找机会 在事业发展过程中培养他们的科学和研究技能，并最终激励他们 成为生物医学研究队伍的一部分，从而加强他们的力量。

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.