This nine‐week program offers a chance to learn, explore, and gain hands‐on experience in a Children's Hospital Medical Center research laboratory environment for 14 to 15 underrepresented students each summer. The online application will open in early to mid-November 2024.
2025 application
Applications for 2025 are due on February 1, 2025.
Each BRIMS intern will be paired with a research mentor to pursue a nine-week full time basic science, or clinical biomedical research project during the summer. All BRIMS students will present a poster during the annual capstone poster competition at the end of the program.
In addition to participating in SURF activities, BRIMS interns participate in weekly career development luncheons and shadowing opportunities with faculty from several different specialties. Participants will be paid $13.00 / hr. The BRIMS program is sponsored by the Office of Academic Affairs and Career Development at Cincinnati Children's and a generous endowment from the Charlotte R. Schmidlapp Foundation.
Attendance is mandatory on Orientation Day, Monday, June 2, 2025.
Applicants must be from the Greater Cincinnati Area, be 17 years and 6 months old by the start of the program, and either be graduating from high school in 2025 or have completed their college freshman year. Successful applicants will also from at least one of the following underrepresented or disadvantaged backgrounds:
- From a racial or ethnic group that is underrepresented in biomedical research including Black or African American, Hispanic or Latinos, American Indian or Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander (Guam, Samoa).
- Were or currently are homeless, as defined by the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (Definition: McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act)
- Attended a high school with low average SAT/ACT scores or below the average State test results
- Were or currently are in the foster care system, as defined by the Administration for Children and Families (Definition: Administration for Children and Families)
- Attended a high school where at least 30 percent of enrolled students are eligible for free or reduced price lunches. (Definition: U.S. Department of Agriculture)
- Have/had no parents or legal guardians who completed a bachelor’s degree
- Were or currently are eligible for Federal Pell grants
- Received support from the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) as a parent or child (Definition: U.S. Department of Agriculture)
- Grew up in one of the following areas: a) a U.S. rural area, as designated by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Rural Health Grants Eligibility Analyzer (data.hrsa.gov/tools/rural-health), or b) a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services-designated Low-Income and Health Professional Shortage Areas (qualifying zip codes are included in the file).
