General Clinical Research Center Interns

Ten 11th and 12th grade students are recruited each summer to serve as interns in the General Clinical Research Center (GCRC), gaining hands-on experience in clinical and translational research. The training program builds on past successes in increasing awareness, interest, preparedness, and participation of underrepresented minorities in science and careers in the health professions. Students are paired with a researcher for one-on-one mentoring and receive an age appropriate lecture series on clinical research topics.

The GCRC’s dedicated 5,000 square feet space includes space for seeing patients, private areas for data collection, a fully equipped metabolic kitchen, a controlled ventilation smoking room for smoking cessation research, a computer and data management room, an exercise physiology laboratory, and a sample processing lab. The GCRC currently has 47 approved protocols from various disciplines, including neurology, nephrology, gastroenterology, oncology, pediatrics, physical therapy, preventive medicine, psychology, alternative medicine and pulmonary medicine.