About this opportunity

The UW Medicine Department of Neuroscience Summer Scholars Program provides 'Bench to Bedside' exposure in the field of neurosciences.Established in 2008 by Richard G. Ellenbogen, M.D., Professor and Chair of the UW Department of Neurological Surgery, the program provides students seeking summer lab placements the opportunity to explore basic and clinical neurosciences.Our hope is that students will be so excited by their work that they will desire to pursue an academic career in research and/or medicine.Our mission is to recruit and educate a wide spectrum of students from diverse backgrounds, focusing on those under-represented in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math), and broaden their knowledge base in the field of biomedical research, including translational, clinical and b