{"id":117968,"date":"2016-10-13T10:38:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T14:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?post_type=school-college-post&p=117968"},"modified":"2016-10-13T10:38:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T14:38:00","slug":"three-uconn-biomedical-students-tapped-prestigious-nih-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2016\/10\/three-uconn-biomedical-students-tapped-prestigious-nih-opportunity\/","title":{"rendered":"Three UConn Biomedical Students Tapped for Prestigious NIH Opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three UConn Graduate School students studying biomedical science<\/a> at UConn Health trained in a two-week intensive course this summer at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center in Bethesda.<\/p>\n

The trio was in a class of only 30 Ph.D. students selected for the special course that introduced them to the role a graduate students can play in clinical and translational research, how basic science and clinical observations lead to translational research, and increased their awareness and access to role models, research resources and potential career opportunities at the NIH.<\/p>\n

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The three biomedical science Ph.D. students from UConn Graduate School selected by the NIH for translational research training were Huakang Huang, Denisse Tafur and Dinesh Babu Uthaya Kumar (UConn Health\/Janine Gelineau).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThe NIH has profoundly changed my view on why I wanted to become a scientist: to help people,\u201d said Dinesh Babu Uthaya Kumar, who participated along with UConn\u2019s Denisse Tafur and Huakang Huang.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot every second-year biomedical graduate student gets a chance to see how their basic laboratory research could be translated in order to save lives. I\u2019m very grateful to the NIH for giving me the once in a lifetime opportunity to participate,\u201d said Kumar, whose research advisor is Adam Williams, Ph.D.<\/a>, assistant professor at The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine.<\/p>\n

Among the coursework was the concept of\u00a0\u2018bench to bedside\u2019 \u2013 all of\u00a0the steps that take a scientific discovery through clinical trials before being\u00a0applied into medical practice in order to improve or save lives, according to Tafur, whose research advisor is Bruce White, Ph.D.<\/a>, a professor of cell biology and co-director of histopathology at UConn Health.<\/p>\n

During the NIH training the students also learned more about research study design, study development and implementation, the scientific and ethical review of research, medical product development and the regulatory process. Their travel was made possible in part by an award from the UConn Health Auxiliary.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat impressed\u00a0me the most were the opportunities to meet with\u00a0NIH investigators in person,\u201d said Huang whose research advisor is Daniel W. Rosenberg, Ph.D.<\/a>, the HealthNet, Inc. Chair in Cancer Biology, professor of medicine and investigator for the Center for Molecular Medicine at UConn Health.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt provided\u00a0great inspiration\u00a0for me to choose a career in clinical research\u00a0and will continue as my\u00a0motivation\u00a0in the future,\u201d Huang added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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