Enhancing Virology Training (ENVIT) through Summer Research

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Description:
The overall goal of “Enhancing Virology Training (ENVIT) through Summer Research” is to prepare and increase the number of underrepresented minority (URM) students in virology-focused careers through didactic, hands-on, mentored, and career-development training.

-Provide students with a 10-week virology research training that include didactic lectures in fundamentals of virology and career-development topics for a virology-focused research and education career.

-Promote evidence-based education in virology by training the students on the methods in fundamental virology research and specialized research techniques in a laboratory setting.

-Engage each student with leading virology researchers (faculty mentor, students, postdoctoral fellows and staff) to stimulate their interest to consider further education and training in the area of virology.

-Develop oral and poster presentation skills of students through scientific presentations of their research internally at MMC Virology Summer Symposium and externally at one national conference.

Program Benefits:

-Fully Paid Summer Research Experience in cutting edge virology focused research.

-Obtain didactic and hands-on training in basic, translational and/or clinical research.

-Mentored research training in the laboratory of highly accomplished investigators.

-Participate in weekly research seminar series in virology

-Participate in small-group learning sessions in virology

-Improve interview and oral presentation skills

-Training in critical and independent thinking

-Interact with faculty and students at Meharry and Vanderbilt

-Present and participate in local and national meetings on virology focused research.


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This program is funded by:
National Institute of Health (NIH)


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