AUGUSTA, Ga. (WJBF) – The Georgia Most cancers Middle offering a possibility for native highschool college students to expertise most cancers analysis via their annual summer season program.
It’s their Summer season Analysis Expertise- a six-week program for college students 16 and over to study a life-time’s work for a remedy to most cancers.
“In case you are like actually into analysis and wanna work in a lab, that’s like your profession, I might positively suggest doing this program…,” Aiken Excessive College Graduate Kamani Barnes stated.
On this program, college students get the prospect to work intently with most cancers researchers on the Georgia Most cancers Middle.
“The main target is for them to study analysis in most cancers. And we’re making an attempt to construct the workforce of the long run in most cancers analysis,” GA Most cancers Middle Director of Grant Improvement Rhea-Beth Markowitz stated.
A purpose that, college students say, they’re already reaching.
“Again then, I believe there was solely like 4 of us, after which the subsequent 12 months I did it once more, that grew to 12, and now we’ve got 22 college students…,” Barnes stated.
College students are matched with these docs primarily based on their utility and given the prospect– over six weeks to study and at last current the analysis they’ve performed.
“They’ve had a number of displays of oral presentation of their science, as a result of communication of what you do in lab is essential. And so, they’re studying talking expertise and on Friday– which is final day of this system– they are going to be doing displays on what they’ve performed over the summer season…,” Markowitz stated.
College students say it’s been important of their steps in the direction of a profession in drugs.
“I at all times knew that I needed to be a health care provider, so I at all times motivated myself like ‘okay, I want to do that, that, this, and I’m simply glad that I’m capable of have many good mentors all through my life,” Barnes stated.
“We’ve had classes on most cancers prevention, they’ve been on excursions, numerous shared sources– within the most cancers middle and on campus– they usually’re uncovered to only a complete lot of what life in science is like,” Markowitz stated.
If you happen to missed this 12 months’s program, however are considering participating subsequent 12 months, allocations do open in January of 2025. For extra data on the appliance course of, go to right here.
