EICS Program

EICS Brochure & Application 2012

Application Deadline: February 10, 2012
Program Starts: May 30, 2012

EICS Summer Research Symposium 2011

The program, “Excellence in Cardiovascular Sciences” (EICS) sponsored by Wake Forest School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Pressure Institute, is an opportunity for summer research experience for underrepresented minorities. The focus is on research training in the cardiovascular sciences with mentoring by medical school faculty. The curriculum includes "hands-on" laboratory research, a lecture series that includes presentations by faculty and guest speakers and a research symposium at which the students present their research findings.  EICS faculty serving as research mentors are from the Hypertension & Vascular Research Center, the Section of Comparative Medicine in Pathology, the Programs in Molecular Genetics, Molecular Medicine, Neuroscience, Perinatal Biology, Molecular Pathology (i.e., Lipid Sciences), the Departments of Radiation Oncology, Biomedical Engineering, Cancer Biology, Physiology & Pharmacology, Internal Medicine, the Division of Surgery and the Offices of Multicultural Affairs, the Maya Angelou Center for Health Equity, and the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences at WFSM, as well as colleagues at Winston-Salem State University.
Undergraduate students with an interest in a PhD in the biomedical sciences for a research career, are encouraged to apply. EICS sponsorship includes travel, lodging and a stipend.

Eligibility requirements require that a student must be:

1) Underrepresented Minorities (i.e. African American, Alaskan Native, Asian-American, Native American, Pacific Islander, or Hispanic)

2) U.S. Citizens or permanent resident of the United States

3) Undergraduate or Master's students in good academic standing 

Summary of EICS Outcomes from 2001-present:

The EICS program is in its 19th year of hosting 12 nationally recruited research interns annually. The participants are 77% African American, 14% Hispanic, 3% Native American and 9% Asian/Pacific Islander.  The success of the EICS program includes the fact that from years 1-19, 73% have remained in science careers: medical or other professional schools (25% with over half of those interested in research as part of an academic career), graduate school (27% - half in PhD programs and half in Master’s programs and a third of these students entered WFU graduate school) or industry/technical (20% with a third of these entering positions here at WFU) positions.  Altogether about ~14% of the total participants from this program have returned to WFSM in some capacity

For more information contact:

Nobi Sarver, Administrative Secretary and Research Training Program Coordinator
Hypertension and Vascular Research Center
Wake Forest School of Medicine
Medical Center Boulevard
Winston-Salem, NC 27157-1032
Telephone: (336) 716-1080
FAX: (336) 716-2456
Email: nsarver@wakehealth.edu