INDIVIDUALIZED RESEARCH EXPERIENCES
Many of the research faculty at the TTUHSC have opportunities for involvement of students in their research projects. Contact information and descriptions of the faculty and their research programs can be found on the GSBS Web Page. Please feel free to directly contact faculty to pursue this opportunity. There is also a list of faculty who have expressed an interest in talking with you about research in their laboratories. click here
MD/Ph.D. PROGRAM
TTUHSC offers a combined degree program where students can earn both the MD and the Ph.D. degrees. For more information please contact Dr. Afzal Siddiqui.
TTUHSC MEDICAL STUDENT SUMMER RESEARCH PROGRAM (MSSR)
Description
This program is sponsored by TTUHSC School of Medicine-Lubbock and the Laura W. Bush Institute for Women’s Health (LWBIWH) to provide medical students with full-time research support in the biomedical sciences for a minimum of eight weeks.
Eligibility Requirements
Stipends in the amount of $2,240 are available to students who have completed their first year and meet all institutional training requirements prior to their start date. Applicants must be full-time members of TTUHSC-SOM and obtain a faculty mentor’s approval prior to submitting their application. It is the responsibility of the student to identify a mentor and work with the mentor to develop a viable research project or preceptor proposal. Only one application per student is permitted. Successful applicants are also expected to present their research and experience in poster form at the next Student Research Week. The call for abstracts will occur in the fall of that year.
Application Materials & Procedure
All student applicants must complete an application form and a proposal. Application forms are available in the LWBIWH office (2B103) on Tuesdays, Wednesday, and Fridays between 1-6pm. Proposal must be no longer than 300 words, hypothesis driven, and contain a clear study plan. Proposals will be evaluated on originality, contribution to biomedical sciences, methodological soundness, awareness of existing research, and quality of writing. Submit the application materials to the mentor's department Chair no later than March 1. The Chair will assess the quality of the proposal before submitting it to the LWBIWB for review. Students will be notified of their acceptance no later than April 1. Funding will be awarded soon after. All research must be completed by August 31.
Contact
If you have any additional questions, please contact Dr. Betsy Jones
RESEARCH IN DEVELOPMENTAL THERAPEUTICS
C Patrick Reynolds, MD Ph.D.
Cancer Center Director
TTUHSC School of Medicine
Email: patrick.reynolds@ttuhsc.edu
Medical student research opportunities include laboratory research testing new anticancer.drugs in laboratory preclinical models, development of drug testing models, and bioinformatics research on cancer drug molecular targets. Research is ongoing in both adult and pediatric solid tumors and leukemias. Medical students will be exposed to early phase clinical trials and invited to attend working meetings on phase I and phase ii clinical trial development carried out by the South Plains Oncology Consortium (SPOC, www.SPONC.org). Exposure to national resource labs for pediatric oncology, i.e. the Children's Oncology Group cell culture and xenograft repository (www.COGcell.org), and the COG Ewing's family tumor preclinical testing lab (www.EFTlab.org) will occur during the research experience. A minimum time commitment of 3 months is required and students interested in truly learning about drug development in cancer are encouraged to consider devoting a year to a research project.
RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES AT THE NIH
The National Institutes of Health offers several research opportunities for students. These programs can be found at http://www.training.nih.gov/student/ and Fogarty Scholars Program
RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH THE HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE
Funding for one year research fellowships in research labs at universities throughout the US (click here)
Funding for one year at laboratories at the NIH (click here)