The Center Scholars Program, developed by CTY and Dr. Andrew Feinberg's Center for Excellence in Genome Science (CEGS), was designed to encourage CTY qualified, under-represented minority students to pursue a career in genomic research by providing an opportunity to study genomics and participate in a graduate level research experience. The program, which bridges several summers, awards scholarships for CTY's research based Genomics course, offered only at the JHU summer site on the Homewood Campus, for qualified students. The summer following the successful completion of this coursework, students are invited to participate in a 6-week paid summer lab internship in one of the medical school laboratories working in a genetics or genomics related field.

Funding for this program is provided by the NHGRI in an effort to increase minority presence in the genome sciences at the PhD level. As of February 2008, all of the funded positions have been allocated through summer 2009; however, interested parties are incouraged to apply and qualified individuals will be placed on a waiting list should additional positions or further funding become available. Additional program and financial aid information can be obtained by contacting Vicky Schneider at  vschneider@jhu.edu or 410-735-6219.

Further information about the Center for Epigenetics can be found here:

www.hopkinsmedicine.org/ibbs/research/epigenetics/