Opportunities for Graduate Studies in Quantitative Biomedical Research

描述（由申请人提供）：这是一份与“2010数学梦的领域会议”相结合的会前研讨会的提案。讲习班将包括大约50名本科生，他们是从全国医学研究领域代表性不足的群体（非裔美国人、西班牙裔美国人、美洲原住民和其他群体）中招募的，以及他们的一些本科生导师。将选择对生物学和数学都感兴趣的学生。优先支持来自少数民族院校的代表性不足的学生，这些院校在生物医学研究方面没有广泛的资源和项目。会前研讨会将向他们介绍定量生物医学科学的研究生学习机会，包括生物统计学、数学生物学、生物信息学、遗传流行病学和生物医学工程。这些都是重要的跨学科生物医学研究的快速发展领域，本科生，特别是那些来自小型大学，没有研究密集型生物医学成分的本科生，并不总是熟悉这些机会。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a proposal for a pre-conference workshop in conjunction with the "2010 Mathematical Field of Dreams Conference". The workshop will include approximately 50 undergraduate students, recruited nationwide from groups underrepresented in medical research (African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Native Americans and others) as well as some of their undergraduate mentors. Students will be selected who have an interest in both biology and mathematics. Priority for support will be given to underrepresented students from minority serving institutions without extensive resources and programs in biomedical research. The pre-conference workshop will introduce them to opportunities for graduate study in the quantitative biomedical sciences including biostatistics, mathematical biology, bioinformatics, genetic epidemiology, and biomedical engineering. These are rapidly growing areas of important interdisciplinary biomedical research, and undergraduates, especially those from small universities without a research intensive biomedical component, are not always familiar with these opportunities. RELEVANCE (See instructions): There is a shortage of American students applying to enter doctoral programs in quantitative fields. This proposal is to address this specific shortage in quantitative biomedical research by introducing underrepresented minority undergraduates and their faculty mentors to interesting, exciting, and important research in biomedical engineering, mathematical biology, bioinformatics, genetic epidemiology and biostatistics. Students will be encouraged to apply to graduate school and their faculty mentors will be provided with information that they may disseminate at their home institution.