Advancing Native Students in Aging Research

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Advancing Native Students in Aging Research is designed for undergraduate students, especially Native American and Indigenous communities. This 1-week course combines short-term, intensive laboratory and didactic courses and mentored pilot research in fundamental, translational, clinical, and behavioral aspects of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) and the mechanisms of aging with ongoing mentoring to ensure both the launching and the retention of these promising candidates in research careers. This course offers dynamic training and career advancement strategies that provide a fresh series of daily lectures on emerging concepts, followed by extended discussions, laboratory research, technologically intense workshops, and informal seminars over week-long periods.

Benefits include:

• Research and training in Alzheimer's and Aging
• Laboratory training
• Mentored pilot research
• Ongoing professional and academic mentoring

This training course is scheduled for August 2-7, 2026 at the University of Minnesota.

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Eligible applicants are undergraduate students currently enrolled at an accredited college or university. Native American applicants are encouraged.

A full scholarship covering room and board and travel is available.

A link to the online registration form is available on the program website.