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.