Description
The Yale Summer Undergraduate Medical Research (SUMR) is an intensive 10-week training program in modern methods of kidney, urology and hematology research with the intent to foster undergraduate students to pursue a career in biomedical research. Tentative program dates are from the last week of May to the middle of August.
Training is provided in both laboratory and patient-based research from the various departments (Internal Medicine, Urology, Genetics, Cell Biology, Cellular and Molecular Physiology, and Epidemiology and Public Health) that are often interconnected in understanding biology of the kidney, lower urinary tract, and hematopoiesis during health and disease. The undergraduate students’ experience will be enhanced not only by performing experiments but by an organized didactic teaching schedule given by dedicated mentors, as well as a wide array of teaching conferences available in the selected departments. The student will also have the opportunity to present his or her research at institutions funded by the R25 program at the end of the summer rotation.
The overall goal is for the students in this program to enroll in graduate or medical school at a research-intensive institution focusing on kidney, hematological, or urological research.