The Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine provides a wide variety of summer research opportunities for undergraduate students interested in careers in medicine or biomedical research. Participants in this program work in an active research laboratory under the guidance of a faculty member. The program is deliberately flexible, so that students may combine lab work with other educational experiences. The goal of the program is to expose students to the challenges, excitement and satisfaction of research.
Selection is based on academic records and the appropriateness of applicants' scientific interests.
Students about to begin their senior year of college studies are preferred, but promising juniors and recent graduates will be considered. Eight undergraduate credit hours in biology are also available tuition-free to all program participants. In addition, those program participants who meet minimum requirements for admission to OU-COM, including having taken the MCAT, will be offered an opportunity to interview during the summer. Cellular and molecular aspects of a new family of human chloride channel proteins Rebecca Code, Ph.D. Afferent regulation of nerve cell death. Ph.D. Immune responses during infections with the Group B streptococcus, the leading cause of bacterial sepsis and pneumonia in newborns, are studied.