This nine‐week program offers a chance to learn, explore, and gain hands‐on experience in a Children's Hospital Medical Center research laboratory environment for 14 to 15 underrepresented students each summer. The online application will open in early to mid-November 2023.
2024 application
Applications for 2024 are due on February 15, 2024.
Each BRIUS intern will be paired with a research mentor to pursue a nine-week full time basic science, or clinical biomedical research project during the summer. All interns will give a five-minute PowerPoint presentation of their research project to the group and are encouraged to present a poster at the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Capstone poster competition at the end of the program.
In addition to participating in SURF activities, BRIUS interns participate in weekly networking luncheons and shadowing opportunities with minority faculty in several different clinical specialties. Participants will be paid $13.00 / hr. The BRIUS program is sponsored by the Office of Academic Affairs and Career Development at Cincinnati Children's and a generous endowment from the Charlotte R. Schmidlapp Foundation.
Attendance is mandatory on Orientation Day, Monday, June 3, 2024.
Applicants must be from a racial or ethnic group that is underrepresented in biomedical research including Black or African American, Hispanic or Latinos, American Indian or Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander (Guam, Samoa). This program is open to high achieving graduating high school seniors and college freshmen from the Cincinnati tri-state area only.