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Minority Biomedical Research Support (MBRS) Program |
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The Minority Biomedical Research Support (MBRS) Program aims to help fill the nation's shortage of minority men and women in biomedical research careers. Minority students perform biomedical laboratory research for a salary at Rutgers-Newark, as a member of the MBRS Program. Eighteen Rutgers-Newark faculty supervise 10 minority doctoral and 10 minority undergraduate students performing research in their laboratories. The students develop their own research project, analyze and present their research findings at professional conferences, and co-author publications based on their research. All MBRS students participate in biweekly meetings at which they present their research findings and at which invited visiting Minority biomedical scientists present research seminars. There have been over 100 graduates from our MBRS Program. Our baccalaureates have continued on in graduate and medical schools (e.g. Johns Hopkins, Yale, and Boston Universities). Our PhD's have continued on in Postdoctoral Fellowships (e.g. Rockefeller University, Mayo Clinic, and MIT), several with their own competitive federal grants, and then into tenure-track faculty positions (e.g. University of Puerto Rico). Funding Funding is provided by a grant under the Institutional Minority Student Development (IMSD) Program of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), plus a supplement from Rutgers University. The MBRS Program is currently in its 17th year of continuous funding. Rutgers University provides salary supplements to the graduate students above the NIH allotment, in order to achieve parity with the other graduate assistants. Participating University Departments
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Dr. Barry Komisaruk, Director Minority Biomedical Research Support Program Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Hill Hall Room 404 Newark, New Jersey 07102 Telephone: (973)353-5772 e-mail: brk@andromeda.rutgers.edu |
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