Educational Modules to Broaden Academic Research Cultures (EMBARC)

Educational Modules to Broaden Academic Research Cultures (EMBARC) innovatively leverages Cultural Mismatch Theory to create high-impact mentoring activities and educational modules powerfully linked to eliminating educational disparities and driving transformation at the individual and institutional level toward inclusion, recruitment, and retention of URM community college (CC) students to the biobehavioral research career field...

CSUN-UCLA Stem Cell Scientist Training Program

The CSUN-UCLA Stem Cell Scientist Training Program will train 10 culturally diverse CSUN undergraduate students in translational stem cell research internships, increasing their technical skills, knowledge, and experience in developing stem cellbased therapies. Interns will spend 2 months at CSUN completing pre-internship training and 10 months in a UCLA internshiphost laboratory. A week-long, hands-on human pluripotent stem cell (hPSC) techniques co...

CSUN-UCLA Bridges to Stem Cell Research

Ten Bridges trainees will study and perform the latest advances in stem cell biology in UCLA laboratories. Bridges internships will be 1 year in duration for graduate students (6 slots) and 9 months for undergraduate students (4 slots) and will take place in screened and selected internship-host labs. The vast majority of intern time will be spent on laboratory research. Interns will spend one week at the USC Stem Cell Techniques course before beginning the...

CSUN CIRM COMPASS Training Program (N-COMPASS)

The CSUN CIRM COMPASS Program will broaden the participation in regenerative medicine of individuals representing the diversity of California?s population by training 15 historically under-represented undergraduate students through hands-on experiences and strategic and structured mentorship experiences to enhance transition of students to successful careers in translational stem cell and gene therapy careers in both the public and private sector eac...