This newly established summer research fellowhship program provides opportunities for those students interested in diabetes-related research. Diabetes-related research is broadly defined. This can include basic, clinical, health services delivery, or community-based research, and can be pertinent to Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes, micro- and macro-vascular complications, basic biology and disease mechanisms, obesity, cardiometabolic disease/Metabolic Syndrome, and disease treatment or prevention. Anyone of the senior scientists or scientists who are active members of the UAB Diabetes Research and Center (DRTC) can serve as mentors for the project. A list of these faculty members can be found on the DRTC web site www.uab.edu/drtc.
Along with the valuable research experience obtained from this program, students also receive a stipend for participation. Students will work for 8-9 weeks under the direction of the mentor. Students will be required to present an abstract of their work at Vanderbilt University in the fall of 2010, where they will join other medical students presenting their research from 6 other US medical universities with DRTCs. If the student, continues to work on the project as part of their scholarship activity in the junior/senior year, the fellowship program will also support a trip for the student to present the research at a national scientific meeting (e.g., the American Diabetes Association, AFCR/ASCI/AAP, FASEB, etc).
The fellowship program will fund 4-5 students each summer. Students can initiate discussions with DRTC member faculty at anytime to explore projects and fellowship possibilities. For more information, students and mentors can contact: Dr. W. Timothy Garvey, MD (garveyt@uab.edu) Chair of the Department of Nutrition Sciences and Director of the DRTC, or Sabrina Carpenter, Administrative Coordinator of the DRTC (sncarpenter@uab.edu).
Application posting and deadline: March 22, 2010
Link to application.