Curriculum

This advanced pre-college biomedical summer program is designed to expose aspects of biomedical sciences under rapid development. This course provides a unique opportunity to the medical school- aspirants to learn and prime for the path forward to pre-med classes during their undergraduate studies.

Molecular cell biology & Cancer biology
Genetics, Data Science & Bioinformatics
Immunology & Immunotherapy

Every week, course work focuses on one of the above-mentioned subjects. Lectures and course work are diligently prepared to provide basics and thereby delve into the complexities of the diseases and ongoing research. Thereby we bridge and provide exposure to the current direction of medical practice and research. This unique course also provides students an appreciation of how genetics, cell behavior, and immune system orchestrate the state of well-being or disease condition.

Capstone Project

In the last week of the course, students work on a topic of their choosing from any of the 3 topics taught in the course. Some highly motivated students have encompassed the spirit of the system into their project and have covered genetic, molecular and immunological aspects of various diseases. Our instructors work with students to help them identify relevant scientific literature to form valid hypotheses. We provide a wide range of resources via our unique and robust infrastructure where students can collaborate and work on their projects. We train our students in creative approaches to scientifically validate their hypothesis and arrive at a final conclusion.

Brainstorm sessions for research aspirants

At the end of the each day, our instructors meet with groups to brainstorm their approach, hypothesis and possible path forward to successfully complete their project. Students are supported to have a poster/talk/white paper as deliverables with conclusion of this advanced pre-college biomedical summer program.

Highlights

Inheritance, mutations and genetic disease
Multi-omics studies to understand the cell state
What is sequencing, technology and preliminary data analysis
Mutagenesis and oncogenesis
Diagnosis
Cancer therapy
Understand the components and coordination of Innate and Adaptive immune systems to fight pathogens/disease
Learn mechanisms of faltering immune system leading to immune disorders and autoimmunity
Immunotherapy

Introduction to following topics & technologies

Types of immune cells
Innate and Adaptive immunity
Genetic sequencing
RNA sequencing
Flow cytometry
Immunohistochemistry
Hematoxylin and eosin staining of tissue slide

This pre-college biomedical summer program also gives access to career counselling about an increasingly wide range of available careers, including research(academic & Pharmaceutical company based), teaching, Medical practitioners to name a few.