The Pre-Health Undergraduate Program (PUP) Welcomes the Class of 2016
The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) offers a summer clinical research training program for up to 15-20 undergraduate students, who are planning to attend dental, medical, nursing, pharmacy or physical therapy professional schools after graduation, and who have an interest in a career in clinical research. Students will be paired with a UCSF professional student who is enrolled in the Designing Clinical Research (DCR) course. The purpose of the course is to train students to evaluate the medical literature, to design clinical and translational research studies, and to encourage long-term collaborations between UCSF and undergraduate students.
In addition to the DCR course, PUP consists of a 1-week pre-course program, that includes didactics, approaches to reviewing the literature, and sessions to allow the student to know themselves and their UCSF mentors better.
Students are selected from across the country and a wide variety of majors. The selection process is highly competitive and this year’s class was selected from over 80 qualified applicants. This year’s class includes:
- Rebekah Bruckner, Psychology from University of California, Berkeley
- Justin Choe, Bioengineering from University of California, Berkeley
- Alicia Cuevas, Public Health/Sociology from University of California, Berkeley
- Hamid Ebadi, Chemical Biology from University of California, Berkeley
- Raymond Ho, Molecular and Cell Biology from University of California, Berkeley
- Rosella Inzunza-Madrigal, Pre-Nursing from San Francisco State University
- Samirah Javed, Biology with a concentration in Physiology from San Francisco State University
- Charles Li, Molecular and Cell Biology from University of California, Berkeley
- Wynter Luna, Biology with a concentration in Physiology from San Francisco State University
- Noelle Manley, Psychology with an option in Neuroscience from Pennsylvania State University
- Katherine McGlothlen, Biological Sciences from California Polytechnic State University
- Carolyn Rocha, Psychobiology from University of California, Los Angeles
- Abigail Romero, Pre-Nursing with a minor in Health Education from San Francisco State University
- Dominic Rubino, Kinesiology/Pre-Med from San Francisco State University
- Michelle Tong, Public Health, Molecular and Cell Biology from University of California, Berkeley
- Alan Yepez-Mejia, Pre-Nursing from San Francisco State University
For more information on PUP, please check out our website at https://accelerate.ucsf.edu/training/pup. The 2017 application cycle will begin in mid to late January 2017.