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Title	Outreach Programs for Teens Receive $2 Million in Funding
Sponsor	Johns Hopkins Medicine
Email	drobin15@jhmi.edu
Details	The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, through their Health Careers Opportunity Program, has awarded $2 million in funding over three years to two Hopkins-grown outreach programs: Biophysics Research for Baltimore Teens and Summer Academic Research Experience. The grant fully funds the programs and allows them to double the number of local teens they reach. The programs help high school and college students from disadvantaged backgrounds overcome socioeconomic barriers and enter the healthcare workforce. The award also funds 17 undergraduates for the Summer Internship Program and 5 postbaccalaureates for a newly developed, one-year mentored research experience, the Doctoral Diversity Program. The programs are run under a team of Johns Hopkins investigators led by Douglas N. Robinson, Professor of Cell Biology, Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. Interested in helping? We need doctoral students and postdocs to provide mentorship to the students, and labs to host them. Contact drobin15@jhmi.edu if interested. A big congrats and thank you to the many people who made this possible, especially: Douglas Barrick, Deborah Carran, Chiquita Collins, Deidra Crews, Estelle Gauda, Douglas Robinson, Jungsan Sohn, James Stivers, Paul White, Kathy Wilson and Andrew Wolfe. Learn more about the Biophysics Research for Baltimore Teens program and the Summer Academic Research Program.

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