Hightower High School Medical Science Academy interns and summer medical interns from Willowridge High School will present today their research projects and findings, and display their scientific posters to a group of medical, health and research professionals at the 2010 PIPELINE Culmination Program and Luncheon.
The event is hosted by Lovell A. Jones and the Center for Research on Minority Health’s Department of Health Disparities Research at the MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Hightower High School has participated in the PIPELINE Scientific Training Program: Linking Training from High School to Graduate Programs with MD Anderson’s Center for Research on Minority Health for the past six years, but this is the first year that Hightower medical interns have been published under their own authorship and not as contributing writers for medical journal articles. Willowridge has been involved with the PIPELINE program for only one year.
The PIPELINE Scientific Training Program introduces interested and qualified Texas students to a research environment, utilizing a school setting. It also provides firsthand experience in the varied career opportunities available in the biomedical sciences, public health and community-based participatory research for students.
The eight-week program for high school and college students generally runs from early June through the last week of July and selects two to three high school students, along with one or more undergraduates, to participate.
