Summary
Project Summary The VCU Initiative for Maximizing Student Development (IMSD) program has had an outstanding record of educating underrepresented scholars in biomedical research since its inception in 2010. The IMSD program previously supported as a R25 is now being formalized under a T32 mechanism while maintaining the rigor and excellence of training underrepresented minorities in biomedical sciences. The program has enrolled 26 pre- doctoral students and graduated 10 scholars with a PhD, with 13 that are currently in training. Our graduates have gone on to careers as scientists in biomedical
