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, including 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. 



Barbara "Bobbie" Pelham-Webb, currently in her fifth year in the Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program, has been awarded an F30 Fellowship from the National Institute of Healths' Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).
Professor Barbara Kazmierczak, MD, PhD (Tri-Institutional MD-PhD class of 1994), who currently is professor of medicine (infectious diseases) and microbial pathogenesis, has been named the Gustavus and Louse Pfeiffer Research Foundation MD-PhD Program Director at the Yale School of Medicine.

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