Gateways to the Laboratory Summer Program

In 1993, the Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program was the first MD-PhD Program in the country to establish a summer program for undergraduates with a focus on the clinician-scientist pathway.

As of 2024, 384 students have “graduated” from Gateways. Over 90% of Gateways alumni have either earned are pursuing an MD, MD-PhD, or PhD degree, inlcuding 23 who have graduated from or are currently enrolled at Tri-I.

ABRCMS 2024 group pic

Watch the video below to hear the some students from the 2019 Gateways class sing the praises of their experiences at the Tri-I. 



Thesis
Nicky Blobel, who worked with Dr. Agata Smogorzewska at the Rockefeller University, defended his thesis, "Endogenous Sources of DNA Damage that Drive Human Disease" on December 2. Congratulations, Nicky!
Tri-I
Tri-I staff, Drs. Catharine Boothroyd and Eileen Torres, were accompanied by current students, Joshua Lopez-Scarim and Alicia Whye at the Annual Biomedical Conference for Minoritized Scientists (ABRCMS) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This conference has been the go-to conference for historically excluded communities in STEM.

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