Application available here.

The Emory-Children’s Pediatric Center, Department of Medicine, and Department of Biomedical Engineering in partnership with Druid Hills High School bring forward a ten-week paid summer research opportunity. We are looking for highly motivated high school students who have taken at least one college-level science course (e.g., AP Biology, Honors Chemistry, etc.) and have at least a B average (3.0 on a 4.0 scale or the equivalent). We will give preference to students who will complete their junior or senior years in spring 2015.  The program is supported by the Rhame Family Foundation and Woodruff Health Sciences Center. It is an extension of the NIH Funded Pediatric Engineering Research Summer Experience (PERSE). The opportunity is made possible due to the collaborative efforts of Emory University and Georgia Tech’s Biomedical Engineering Department, the Department of Pediatrics within Emory University's School of Medicine, Emory College’s Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURE), and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.

It begins May 26 and concludes July 31, 2015. Scholars will be required to meet program mentors at the beginning of the program.   Once the program begins, Scholars are required to be present for the entire ten-week program and may not be otherwise employed. The program primarily focuses on student engagement in mentored laboratory research projects.  This research takes place at the Health Sciences Research Building and other select areas on campus.

We will pay Scholars a stipend for their full-time commitment of 40 hrs/week during the ten-week program. Scholars are expected to provide their own transportation between their homes and the program sites on a daily basis as well as provide their own meals. Scholars must also provide immunization records, negative TB test results within the last six months and negative drug test results.

Applicants must include an enclosed letter of recommendation from your teacher, as well as parental statements of support.

Please complete the application and deliver it to your teacher, who will then fill out the recommendation form and submit.  These must be delivered to your teacher by April 1, 2015; details are on the application. You also must submit an official, registrar-sealed transcript by this date.

We will select from the applications candidates for interview before making offers of acceptance into the program. Our goal is to interview applicants at the beginning of April and extend summer offers the week of April 15, 2015. 

Please contact Onix Ramirez, [email protected], if you have questions. We look forward to receiving your application.