Eligibility
This academic programme is open to undergraduate and postgraduate Stratified Medicine students only with a maximum of 8 places available.
Please note: You can apply for only one academic programme.
Through this academic programme you will gain an understanding of the global application of personalised medicine while appreciating the importance of multidisciplinary research teams in the development of personalised therapies.
The programme will offer you the chance to gain novel insights on the treatment of complex disease and help you learn new styles of collaboration thus widening your personal and professional horizons so you can start to build international contacts and networks!
You will experience first hand how societal and/or the political climate impacts the research agenda within the US whilst also learning about the history of the region!
Example Itinerary
Please note this is an indicative itinerary and is subject to change.
| Date | Time | Activity |
|---|---|---|
| 15 June | AM |
Depart Belfast via air-coach: 0530 Flight to Philadelphia: 1120 |
| PM |
Land in Philadelphia: 1355 Briefing by Campus Philly: 1800 Group Dinner TGI Fridays: 1900 | |
| 16 June | AM | Group visits to include some combination of: Mutter Museum/ Eastern State Penitentiary/ Liberty Bell/ Independence Hall/ Art Museums/ Franklin Institute. |
| PM | Group visit... continued | |
| 17 June | AM | |
| PM | Full day workshop with Upenn to include visit to Molecular Screening Facility at the Wistar Institute and seminar by Danesh Moazed (Professor of cell biology at Harvard) and a tour of the Epigenetics Institute. | |
| 18 June | AM | Visit GSK’s BioPharmaceutical Product development Unit |
| PM | Visit to the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania | |
| 19 June | AM | TBC |
| PM | Ulster Global Conference | |
| 20 June | AM | Free time |
| PM | Flight to Dublin: 2110 | |
| 21 June | AM |
Land in Dublin: 0855 Depart Dublin via air-coach: 1100 |
