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Program Overview
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Background
The Biomedical Science Research Career Enhancement Program, also known as the UCSF/NIGMS Fellowship, began in 1997 with the awarding of the NIGMS grant to support underrepresented minority students pursuing degrees in the life sciences at UCSF. In 2002, the Graduate Division received its second grant, which allows for the support of selected students for up to five years of graduate study.
Program Goals
The Biomedical Science Research Career Enhancement Program has five overarching goals:
- To ensure that fellows are affiliated with research teams in UCSF's most prestigious laboratories or research programs and that the senior faculty members of those teams become the fellows' mentors.
- To provide fellows with "co-curricular" academic experiences that enhance and enrich the regular graduate curriculum and broaden their perspectives and marketable skills.
- To stimulate fellows' involvement in career planning and to ensure their access to campus resources related to research career placement strategies.
- To increase the number of underrepresented minority students who persist in their graduate studies, graduate with doctoral degrees in normative time, and make advances as researchers and educators.
- To contribute to academic literature about programs for advancing the research skills and career placement opportunities of minority graduate students in the academic health sciences.
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