M.D./Ph.D. Summer Undergraduate Research Program

Why Should You Participate?

Benefits include:  

  • Gaining research training and experience that will make you more competitive for medical school, graduate school, other summer research programs, and M.D./Ph.D. Programs
  • Becoming familiar with UNMC and its faculty, students and programs
  • The UNMC faculty will get to know you and your potential
  • Exploring your personal motivation for a career in medicine and biomedical research
  • Discovering all of the exciting research going on at UNMC
  • Participating in a student poster session
  • Understanding how discoveries made in the laboratory are translated into new methods of prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of human disease
  • Research is fun and rewarding
  • AND, we will PAY you to do it. A stipend of $3,000 for approximately 10 weeks of participation.