All Posts:training

• NIH Funding Advances Health Sciences and Trains Biomedical Leaders at Georgetown University Medical Center

  As an R1 research institution, Georgetown University is dedicated to fostering discoveries and scientific advancements while training the next generation of researchers. Nearly $3.8 million in government funding comes through training grants, which give students and postdoctoral fellows the opportunity to learn from leaders in biomedicine while contributing to cutting-edge, impact-focused projects. Four current NIH grant-supported PhD students share their research and how their studies and programs are helping them reach their career goals.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: biomedical education, Biomedical Graduate Education, education, graduate education, National Institutes of Health, post-doctoral education, research, training, training grants

• Georgetown Helps Build a Community of Scholars in Neurorehabilitation

  (January 3, 2025) — At the start of the academic year, an innovative initiative launched to support early-career researchers at Georgetown who are dedicated to understanding and solving challenges re

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: biomedical research, health disparities, neurorehabilitation, research, stroke, training

• Pharmacology & Physiology Student is Georgetown’s First HHMI Gilliam Fellow

  In July 2024, Pharmacology & Physiology doctoral student Lindsey Russ became Georgetown University’s first recipient of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Gilliam Fellowship, which “invests in graduate trainees who are committed to advancing equity and inclusion in science and empowers them as future science leaders.”

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: neuroscience, research, student achievement, training

• Empowered to Serve: First Cohort of BRIC Coaches Reflect on Personal, Professional Growth

  (July 16, 2021) — The Bias Reduction and Improvement Coaching (BRIC) program launched in September 2019 with 27 members of the Georgetown/MedStar community prepared to participate in a new evidence-based program designed to train faculty and staff members to help colleagues identify and mitigate bias in the workplace.  In the midst of a deadly pandemic […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: inclusion, racial equity, racial justice, training, unconscious bias

• Georgetown Lombardi Summer Program Cultivates Young Scientists

  High school and college students participating in the Summer Research Volunteer Program at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center gained valuable insights about the process of scientific discovery and the biology of cancer.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: biomedical research, education, training