Iui Post-Baccalaureate Research Education Program

The Indiana University Indianapolis Post-Baccalaureate Research Program (IPREP) prepares recent college graduates, who are students from underserved populations, for admission to graduate programs in the biomedical and behavioral sciences. The mission of IPREP is to increase the number of Ph.D. graduates in the biomedical and behavioral sciences. To accomplish this mission, we undertake the following specific aims that provide the necessary research and career development skills needed to make our students more competitive and resilient. 1) Provide opportunities for recent baccalaureate-degree graduates from underserved groups to obtain the research experience needed to gain admission to, and success in, a competitive and research-intensive biomedical and behavioral science Ph.D. program. 2) Provide opportunities for the IPREP fellows to strengthen professional skills that are needed to survive in a competitive biomedical research Ph.D. programs. IPREP is funded through the National Institutes of Health and draws on the programmatic and research strengths of the major health and life sciences campus of IUPUI. Training is provided in addictions neuroscience, biomedical engineering, clinical psychology, human performance and kinesiology, medical neuroscience, basic biomedical sciences (anatomy and cell biology, microbiology and infectious disease, musculoskeletal biology, pharmacology, and physiology), and other areas in biological behavior sciences toward the goal of matriculation into these graduate programs. The long-term goal of IPREP is to broaden the community of graduate students and faculty for these targeted Ph.D. programs at Indiana University Indianapolis.