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The Saint Louis University (SLU) Institute for Drug and Biotherapeutic Innovation (SLU-IDBI) Summer Program in Undergraduate Research (IDBI-SPUR) was run in two formats in 2024 for undergraduate SLU students:
1) full-time ($6,000 stipend, 40 hours per week, 10 weeks)
2) part-time ($15/hour, 20 hours per week, 8 weeks)
We had 22 applications for the full-time IDBI-SPUR Fellowship and were able to fund 4 full-time IDBI-SPUR Fellows thanks to the generous scholarship funding from the DeNardo Education and Research Foundation (DeNardo IDBI-SPUR fellows). This was an 18% acceptance rate.
We had 56 applications for the part-time IDBI-SPUR Fellowship and were able to fund 31 part-time IDBI-SPUR Fellows thanks to a combination of internal and external funding awarded to IDBI Faculty Mentors. This was a 55% acceptance rate.
Below is a table highlighting the IDBI-SPUR participants for 2024. Please send edits/corrections to blythe.janowiakmulligan@slu.edu.
IDBI-SPUR Fellows participated in three cohort events in 2024:
1. Beginning of IDBI-SPUR cohort event 1 (May 29, 2024): safety training, guidance on importance of recordkeeping, faculty mentor lightning talks, and a social gathering (ice cream social).
2. Midpoint of IDBI-SPUR cohort event 2 (June 28, 2024): group picnic lunch, games & networking, and a field trip to the Drug Discovery Core, a core facility run by the IDBI that contains shared equipment used for drug discovery, highlighting some of the research projects being aided by the core.
3. End of IDBI-SPUR cohort event 3 (July 29, 2024): Research Blitz Seminar where each IDBI-SPUR fellow creatively shared research in 3 minutes or less and we celebrated the successes of the program.
Below are some photos from the 2nd cohort event:
The third annual IDBI Research Symposium was held on September 5, 2024. All IDBI-SPUR Fellows were encouraged to participate, while paid Fellows were required to participate.
Below are some photos from the symposium.
Top row: oral presentations (including IDBI-SPUR Fellows Atiksh Chandra & Nithya Chintalapati)
Middle row: poster presentations
Bottom row: poster awards (including IDBI-SPUR Fellows Imandi Mendis & Julia Gaugel)
IDBI-SPUR Fellow Atiksh Chandra
IDBI-SPUR Fellow Nithya Chintalapati
All four oral presenters (two graduate students & two undergraduate students)
Graduate Student Poster Winner Sabareesh Sundarraj
Undergraduate Student Poster Winners Imandi Mendis & Julia Gaugel (both IDBI-SPUR Fellows)
IDBI-SPUR Fellows Julia and Imandi with their winning poster
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