Weill Cornell Initiative for Maximizing Student Development

Weill Medical Coll Of Cornell Univ, New York NY

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Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT The Weill Cornell Graduate School (WCGS)—an educational and training partnership between Weill Cornell Medicine and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center—is a premier institution for PhD training in the biomedical sciences. We look to leverage our training capacity to increase our rates of attracting, retaining, and developing doctoral students historically underrepresented in science (URiS) as leaders in the biomedical workforce. To accomplish this goal, we propose a Weill Cornell IMSD program with the following objectives: (1) Attract a pool of well-prepared URiS students to WCGS; (2) Build a robust, self-renewing community of URiS doctoral students through an early start program, multifaceted mentorship, and social gatherings; and (3) Equip IMSD scholars with leadership training, professional skills and networks to be leaders in a variety of biomedical and science-related careers. WCGS is primed for training the next generation of URiS biomedical scientists and we are confident that through the Weill Cornell IMSD, we can develop a steady stream of well-trained PhD’s that will both diversify and bring innovation to the biomedical workforce.