PPB Summer Workshop

The Pharmacology, Physiology, and Biophysics Department (PP&B) hosts an Annual Summer Workshop for Medical and Master’s students, and undergraduates who are in their Junior or Senior year of study.  This is part of our departmental outreach efforts. The workshop offers research internships for 4-8 weeks, including a 5 week workshop.  There is no registration fee associated with this workshop.

The workshop includes 5 components:

  1. Methods in Pharmacological Sciences: A series of lectures from PP&B and Clinical faculty focusing on novel methodologies used for diagnostic, research or therapeutics development. This course is offered for 5 weeks.
  2. Journal Club: Run by departmental faculty, the Journal Club discussions are based on publications related to the lectures on novel Methodologies.  The goal of the Journal Club is to provide students with an overview of recent research methodologies used in drug discovery and therapeutics. In addition, the Journal Club sessions serve to introduce visiting students to the ongoing research projects in which they will be involved.
  3. Meet the Scientist: In these sessions, faculty share with students their path through academia, barriers they may have encountered, and what has helped them succeed or defined their trajectory as a scientist or physician-scientist. These are informal 30-minute presentations followed by a 20-minute Q&A session.
  4. Postdoc and student presentations: Lunch based science presentations by PP&B trainees. This is an opportunity for networking and for workshop participants to interact with researchers from various fields.
  5. Research internship: workshop participants are assigned to research labs for 4-6 weeks. The internship involves training in a basic science technique, data analysis, participation in lab meetings.

For more information, please contact Vidhya Kumaresan (vidhya@bu.edu) or Chris Schonhoff (cschon01@bu.edu)