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This ten-week research program is designed for approximately 20 outstanding undergraduate students who are interested in pursuing a career in biomedically related sciences. Students in the program have the opportunity to:

• obtain hands-on research experience in cutting edge laboratories;
• interact with faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students;
• attend a weekly luncheon/seminar series of presentations by faculty;
• attend skills/development workshops to hone presentation skills, interview skills, etc.;
• attend and present at works-in-progress sessions with the cohort of SURP students;
• present their research at a special poster session at the end of the ten-week program.

Students will learn from scientists conducting research in:

• developmental biology and genetics;
• signals and pathways involved in the control of cell proliferation;
• cell-cell interactions, adhesion, and protein targeting;
• tumor immunology, immunotherapy, and transplantation biology;
• genomic integrity and human cancer genetics;
• drug development, drug resistance, and clinical therapeutics;
• chemical biology and structural biology;
• computational biology.

Schedule
The ten-week summer undergraduate research program begins on the first Monday in June and runs for ten consecutive weeks.

Contact Us
For further information, e-mail surp@sloankettering.edu.

We invite applications from undergraduate freshmen, sophomores, or juniors who are contemplating a career in biomedically related sciences. Applicants should have a minimum GPA of 3.0 and should have completed at least college-level general biology and/or introductory chemistry. The application deadline is February 1.

Students who are accepted into the ten-week summer undergraduate research program will be offered a stipend of $3,000 and housing. Housing accomodations are available in close proximity to the school for the duration of the summer program.

The SURP mentors are drawn from departments and research programs of both the Sloan-Kettering Institute and Memorial Hospital. These include eight Institute research programs: Cancer Biology and Genetics, Cell Biology, Computational Biology, Developmental Biology, Immunology, Molecular Biology, Molecular Pharmacology and Chemistry, and Structural Biology; as well as the Hospital's departments of Medicine, Pathology, Pediatrics, Radiology, and Surgery, and the hospital-based Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program.