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February2002

MD-PhD Training Program for Minority
Students Receives $500,000 Challenge Grant

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has pledged a $500,000 challenge grant over the next three years to help create a $1 million endowment for the Gateways to the Laboratory Program, a joint endeavor of the Tri-Institutional M.D.-Ph.D. Program of Weill Cornell Medical College, The Rockefeller University, and Sloan-Kettering Institute. Gateways is a unique summer internship program which gives college students from underrepresented minority groups, who have completed their freshman or sophomore years with distinction, the opportunity to acquire one or two summers of experience in a leading laboratory.

The goal of Gateways is to provide students who have outstanding potential in the biomedical sciences the opportunity to test and develop their interest in pursuing a combined degree program, while providing the hands-on experience that ranks so high among the criteria for admission to M.D.-Ph.D. programs.

Students perform individual research projects at any one of the three institutions for a 10-week period. The program includes research presentations, seminars, journal clubs, clinical rounds with members of the Department of Medicine at New York Presbyterian Hospital, workshops, career guidance, peer advisors, and mock interviews and MCAT exams.

Since it was established in 1993, as the first minority outreach program of its kind to be hosted by an M.D.-Ph.D. program, Gateways has enrolled 75 undergraduates. Of these, more than half have gone on to M.D., Ph.D., or M.D.-Ph.D. programs. Five Gateways alumni have been enrolled at top M.D.-Ph.D. programs. Twenty-four Gateways alumni are still completing their undergraduate education.

“The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has provided a critical vote of confidence to Gateways to the Laboratory, for which we are extremely honored and grateful,” said Dr. Antonio M. Gotto, Jr., the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of Weill Cornell Medical College. “This gift will create an endowment to sustain the program for years to come, and help us invest in the future of underrepresented minority college students.” #

 

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