The Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences has been awarded a competitive grant from the National Institutes of Health to launch a program dedicated to increasing the number and enhancing the success of doctoral students from underrepresented backgrounds.
The five-year, $2.4 million award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health will fund the Weill Cornell Initiative to Maximize Student Development (IMSD). The program, intended to increase diversity in the biomedical workforce, will support each year four incoming doctoral students from minority backgrounds for the first two years of their training, with additional funds from the graduate school partially supporting them for their third and fourth years of training. The program will also enable an array of activities promoting community, leadership and professional skills, and career exploration for all graduate students.
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New Weill Cornell IMSD students from left to right: Rafael Colon, Viktor Belay, Amanda Simon and Valerie Gallegos
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