Responsibilities

Trainee’s responsibilities will be evaluated at every weekly meeting with the sponsor; Trainees are expected to:

• Develop hypothesis-driven research questions that are related to cardiovascular disease or stroke.
• Design a research project, under mentorship of the sponsor, to test the hypothesis.
• Literature review using PubMed, Scopus, Medline and Google Scholar to interpret and apply towards the problems and hypothesis.
• Determine the ongoing projects on the same area and available funding support at NIHReporter.
• Work on methodologies, reagents and facilities that are directly linked to the hypothesis.
• Generate data by working in the sponsor’s lab.
• Interpret their produced data and communicate the results to the sponsor and the rest of the group members.
• Become familiar the scientific research process.
• Comply with ethical standards in research and scholarship.
• Engage in open and timely discussions with sponsor and lab mates regarding possession or distribution of tangible property such as lab ware, cell lines, reagents, etc.
• Show respectful conduct towards coworkers and members of the academic or research group.
• Complete a laboratory research project during the program’s duration.
• At the conclusion of the summer fellowship, present their data to an internal peer review group and at the summer trainee research forum.