The 6-week HiSTEP program introduces students to scientific careers and biomedical research. It also provides career development and college preparatory training.

URL for HISTEP: www.training.nih.gov/histep

Credit: Office of Intramural Training & Education, National Institutes of Health

NIH director Dr. Francis Collins speaks with Dr. Idowu Aimola of Nigeria, one of 10 fellows participating in a new program, the African Postdoctoral Training Initiative (APTI). Fellows spend 2 years in the lab of an NIH senior investigator, learning cutting-edge science while working on a research project of mutual interest. The immersion is intended to give the fellows the expertise to become research leaders when they return home and to foster col-laborations between NIH scientists and institutions in Africa.

Dr. Aimola teaches biochemistry at the largest university in Nigeria. Working in Dr. Collins' lab, Aimola will be engaged in high-tech single-cell biology and learning to analyze genomic data. His project will investigate why some people are predisposed to diabetes, a growing problem in Africa.

Read more:

nihrecord.nih.gov/2019/06/14/new-fellowships-bring-africa...

Credit: National Institutes of Health

A postdoctoral lab mentor and her HISTEP student check on the results of their fruit fly genetics experiment.

URL for HISTEP: www.training.nih.gov/histep

Credit: Office of Intramural Training & Education, National Institutes of Health

The National Institutes of Health selected 50 students for the 2019-2020 Medical Research Scholars Program (MRSP). The year-long research training program allows medical, dental, and veterinary students to pause their university studies to live and conduct basic, clinical, or translational research work on the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland. The scholars begin their fellowship in July 2019.

“The NIH Medical Research Scholars Program attracts the brightest talent from across the country. These scholars are the future leaders in American medicine,” said Thomas R. Burklow, M.D., director of the MRSP.

More information: www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-welcomes-50-you...

In this image: Leah Gober (part of the 2018-2019 MRSP group), from Mercer University School of Medicine

Credit: National Institutes of Health

Sarah Florig works in the lab during her first-year as a BUILD EXITO trainee at Portland State University. EXITO, which stands for “Enhancing Cross-Disciplinary Infrastructure and Training at Oregon,” is Portland State University’s Building Infrastructure Leading to Diversity (BUILD) program, which is part of the NIH Common Fund’s Diversity Program Consortium.

Credit: BUILD EXITO.

Dr. Michael Otto of NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases is hosting APTI fellow Dr. Nana Amissah of Ghana, who is studying Staphylococcus aureus.

Ten African scientists have been selected for training at the National Institutes of Health as part of a new fellowship program to build research capacity in African countries and develop ongoing scientific partnerships. NIH, the African Academy of Sciences, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are collaborating to establish the African Postdoctoral Training Initiative.

Read more: www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/new-fellowship-prog...

Credit: Fogarty International Center/NIH

Participants in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Medical Research Scholars Program (MRSP) conduct research in the Clinical Center. The MRSP is a comprehensive, year-long research enrichment program designed for U.S. citizens and permanent residents currently enrolled in an accredited medical, dental or veterinary program who have completed their core clinical rotations.

Credit: Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health

HISTEP students working in the lab beside one of their postdoc mentors (in blue)

URL for HISTEP: www.training.nih.gov/histep

Credit: Office of Intramural Training & Education, National Institutes of Health

Members of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Medical Research Scholars Program (MRSP) conduct research in the Clinical Center. The MRSP is a comprehensive, year-long research enrichment program designed to attract research-oriented medical, dental and veterinary students to the NIH campus in Bethesda, Md.

Credit: Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health

Dr. Robert Colbert trains Dr. Amy Petrik (Post-Doctoral Student) and Dr. Grace Kwon (Post-Doctoral Student) in the lab. They are examining skin fibroblasts under a microscope. Skin fibroblasts are reprogrammed into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC), which can then be differentiated into bone forming cells. These are used to study how specific genetic variants associated with susceptibility to ankylosing spondylitis, help cause spinal ankylosis. The PTRB researches spondyloarthritis and related disorders—including ankylosing spondylitis—particularly with childhood onset. Dr. Robert Colbert is developing a research program to characterize the mechanisms responsible for initiating and promoting inflammation and dysregulated bone formation in these disorders. These studies will build on recent advances in our understanding of the genetics of ankylosing spondylitis, including the role of the immune system in mediating inflammation.

Credit: Photographer: Bill Branson, NIH Medical Arts, National Institutes of Health

A HISTEP student checks the eye color or her fruit flies during a genetics experiment.

URL for HISTEP: www.training.nih.gov/histep

Credit: Office of Intramural Training & Education, National Institutes of Health

Barbara C. Yang, Postbaccalaureate Intramural Research Training Award (IRTA) Fellow, working in the Translational Immunology Section of the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), and Joseph “Greg” Dolan, also a Postbaccalaureate IRTA Fellow, working in the Translational Autoinflammatory Disease Section, look at chamber slides containing keratinocytes and fibroblasts. The emphasis of the Translational Autoinflammatory Disease Section is on applying a systematic approach to the clinical and immunological description of a number of autoinflammatory diseases. The Translational Immunology Section provides researchers with accurate and reproducible immune monitoring assays. The two teams, led by principal investigators Raphaela T. Goldbach-Mansky, M.D., M.H.S., and Massimo G. Gadina, Ph.D., work closely together. The photograph was taken April 24, 2009, in the NIH Clinical Center.

Credit: National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), National Institutes of Health.

Three California State University, Northridge (CSUN) BUILD PODER trainees, (from left) Dayana Banuelos, Ashley Ward and Steven Meza, were featured in the Fall 2016 CSUN Magazine for its research issue. BUILD PODER is CSUN’s Building Infrastructure Leading to Diversity (BUILD) program, which is part of the NIH Common Fund’s Diversity Program Consortium. Ward is one of the first nine BUILD PODER students to graduate May 2017, and she is now at the University of Colorado, Denver, earning a doctorate in cancer biology. Banuelos, a psychology major, and Meza, an engineering major, both completed competitive summer research programs at research institutions and will be graduating spring 2018 with plans to pursue PhDs.

Credit: Lee Choo

Arren Simpson, a ReBUILDetroit trainee majoring in biology, works in the iNSPIRE Laboratory, which was partially funded by the university’s ReBUILDetroit grant. This program is one of the 10 Building Infrastructure Leading to Diversity (BUILD) programs, part of the NIH Common Fund’s Diversity Program Consortium.

Credit: John Powell.

Sayuri Pacheco works in California State University, Northridge (CSUN) professor Thomas Minehan’s organic chemistry lab, doing research synthesizing major groove DNA. Pachecho is a trainee in the BUILD PODER program, CSUN’s Building Infrastructure Leading to Diversity (BUILD) program, which is part of the NIH Common Fund’s Diversity Program Consortium.

Credit: Vanessa Cisneros

Watch Benoit Renvoise, a post doctoral fellow at the at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke discuss his research with Lysosomal Abnormalities Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia. LabTV is a video series that highlights young researchers experience in working in science and explores what led them to their career choices.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9X99VW34gY

Credit: LabTV, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Strokes, National Institutes of Health

An interview with Matthew Zabel who does research in the Unit on Neuronal-Glial Interactions in Retinal Disease at the National Eye Institute. LabTV is a video series that highlights young researchers experience in working in science and explores what led them to their career choices.

www.labtv.com/Home/Profile?researcherId=1242

Credit: LabTV, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health

An interview with Keisha Findley, Post-Doctoral Fellow in the

Genetics and Molecular Biology Branch at the National Human Genome Research Institute. Lab TV is a video series that highlights young researchers experience in working in science and explores what led them to their career choices.

www.labtv.com/Home/Profile?researcherId=1405

Credit: LabTV, National Human Genome Research Institute,

National Institutes of Health

Brandon Kowalski is a BLaST trainee at University of Alaska, Fairbanks. He is majoring in biological sciences, and currently researching phytoremediation of diesel contaminated soils. BLaST is the University of Alaska Fairbank’s Building Infrastructure Leading to Diversity (BUILD) program, which is part of the NIH Common Fund’s Diversity Program Consortium.

Credit: Theresa Vertigan, UAF BLaST Laboratory Research and Teaching Technician

Arren Simpson presents her Summer Research Experience to fellow ReBUILDetroit trainee Relicious Eboh during a research poster session for trainees. ReBUILDetroit is one of 10 Building Infrastructure Leading to Diversity (BUILD) programs in the Diversity Program Consortium, an NIH Common Fund initiative.

Credit: John Powell

Zahraa Alhabib, an incoming ReBUILDetroit trainee, practices her pipetting during the Summer Enrichment Program for incoming students at the University of Detroit, Mercy. The ReBUILDetroit program is one of the ten Building Infrastructure Leading to Diversity (BUILD) programs in the Diversity Program Consortium, which is funded by the NIH Common Fund.

Credit: John Powell

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