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NIDDK STEP-UP
The NIH NIDDK Short-term Education Program for Under-represented Persons (STEP-UP) was created by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) in 1995. The purpose of STEP-UP is to encourage students from under-represented ethnic minority backgrounds to enter the career fields of medicine and biomedical research. The Alaska STEP-UP program is coordinated by the WWAMI Biomedical Program at the University of Alaska Anchorage and takes place on the UAA campus.
Each Alaska STEP-UP student develops and completes a research topic under the mentorship of a UAA researcher. STEP-UP students also take part in social and some coursework activities with participants in the concurrently-run Della Keats/U-DOC program. At the end of the program, STEP-UP participants are flown to Washington, DC to present their project results and to participate in a project competition at the NIH national research conference.
Program dates for 2008: June 29-August 17
For more information, contact:
Dr. Ian van Tets, Director
Kathleen Boeckman, Administrative Assistant
UAA WWAMI Biomedical Program
3211 Providence Drive, ENGR 331
Anchorage, AK 99508
Phone: (907) 786-4789
Fax: (907) 786-4700
Email:
Website: http://biomed.uaa.alaska.edu/niddk_step_up.html
This page was last updated by Janice Troyer on April 15, 2008
