About
NY-RaMP Program at Hunter College
NY-RaMP Program for Diversifying the National Biology Workforce through New York Trans-disciplinary BioSciences is designed to provide recent (<4 years from graduation) college graduates with 1 year of paid high impact research immersion.
This program, funded by the National Science Foundation, allows recent college graduates interested in the biological sciences to enter the NYC community of researchers and to join the national biology workforce. Selected postbaccalaureates who have limited biology research laboratory experience will be trained in trans-disciplinary cell, molecular, and bioinformatics that is focused on discovery science for understanding the complexities of cellular signaling.
Each year ten NY-RaMP Scholars will be admitted to the program. Each scholar’s stipend for the year is $35,000. Each selected scholar is paired with a research professor from the City University of New York (CUNY) Hunter College who will carry out the mentoring in collaboration with a co-mentoring team. Admitted NY-RaMP scholars are required to work full-time in a laboratory. Training begins with Research Readiness Bootcamp, located at the DNA Learning Center NYC located at CUNY City Tech and the Hunter College Belfer Research building.
After training, scholars will engage in full-time collaborative mentored discovery science work at the Belfer Research Building, including meetings with the laboratory team, mentoring team, and other scholars in the program.
Lab research topics revolve around diverse areas of cell signaling in biology including molecular biology of diverse systems that connect to chemical biology, gene expression, microbiology, cell biology, RNA biology, and computational genomics (to name a few).