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. 



Professor David Allis of The Rockefeller University was named as a recipient of a 2018 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award alongside Professor Michael Grunstein of UCLA.
Current Tri-Institutional MD-PhD student, Margaret Herre, has received an F30 award from the National Institutes of Health - National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIH/NIDCD) for her project "Hormone regulation of olfactory sensory neuron function in the Zika vector Aedes aegypti".

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