Overview
The University of Arizona (UA) Undergraduate Biology Research Program (UBRP) invites applications from UA students majoring in engineering, physics, mathematics or computer science, who are interested in a summer research experience in the biological or biomedical sciences.
Interdisciplinary approaches to biological problems are increasingly necessary to advance knowledge. There has been a significant change from the reductionist approach to the biological sciences of the past few decades to a holistic approach. The need to include scientists from the quantitative and physical sciences and engineering is being driven in part by advances in biological imaging, genomics, proteomics, and drug design. This program enables undergraduate students majoring in engineering, mathematics and the physical sciences to apply their knowledge to biologically and biomedically related problems.
The Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research Program for Undergraduates in the Quantitative and Physical Sciences and Engineering is funded by a grant to the University of Arizona from the National Institutes of Health (# 1 R25 GM072733).