Summer Scholars Research Fellowship

The 2023 Center for Military Medicine Research Summer Scholars are: 

Prem Chandrasekar, Senior Health Infomatics Major, University of Pittsburgh

César Guerra-Solano, Sophomore, Computer Science and Computational Biology major, University of Pittsburgh

Congratulations Prem and César!  

Prem and César completed their summer studies on August 18, 2023 at the Uniformed Service University for the Health Sciences (USUHS), Comprehensive Student Training Session.  

Prem's research poster was titled Longitudinal Analysis of Ventricle Size in Athletes with Sports-Related Traumatic Brain Injury MRI Data. Prem's USUHS faculty sponsors were Dzung Pham, PhD and Yuan-Chiao Lu, PhD. 

César's research poster was titled A Python Pipeline for Clinical Decision Support Tool (CDST) Development. César's USUHS faculty sponsor was Dr. Renhua Li of the USUHS Surgical Critical Care Initiative.

The Center for Military Medicine Research (CMMR) at the University of Pittsburgh will offer several summer research opportunities for University of Pittsburgh undergraduate and graduate students focused on exciting, multidisciplinary, team -based research at the intersection of medicine and biology with focus on many of today's most challenging areas of research. 

This program encourages undergraduate students with U.S. citizenship from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups and individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds to spend summer months working in United States Department of Defense (DoD) labs. 

The program offers scholarship support and a paid research stipend in a DoD lab for 6-8 weeks during the Summer.

Candidates should be interested in medical research training leading ultimately to a terminal degree (Masters, PhD, or combined MD/PhD), or other degrees in biomedical, nursing, public health, computer sciences or behavioral sciences. 

If you are interested, please respond to Ann Gleeson, Managing Director, at aig12@pitt.edu immediately for application details.