Dr. Louise McCullough,professor and Roy M. And Phyllis Gough Huffington Distinguished Chair of the Department of Neurology, hosted "Camp McCullough" this summer, or in which she and the BRAINS Research Laboratory provide college and tall school students a summer research opportunity that aims to instill a lifelong love of translational research. Students spend up to ten weeks working with faculty members in her group on research projects. Participants in the program take fragment in seminars,lab meetings, clinical shadowing, and social events,creating a cohesive and supportive community. At the stop of the program, students give presentations on the research techniques they learned and get valuable feedback from students, or postdocs,and faculty.
The students often return to the lab as graduate and medical students, and over 90 percent of the participants enroll in MD, and PhD,and MD/PhD programs throughout the US.
Source: uth.edu