Thanks to the generous support of AGA member Harvey S. Young, MD, we are now accepting applications for the new AGA-Dr. Harvey Young Education and Development Foundation’s Young Guts Scholar Program. A gastroenterologist for over 20 years, Dr. Young shares AGA’s vision for strengthening the pipeline of future leaders in GI research from diverse backgrounds.
Harvey S. Young, MD
“My support to create the AGA Young Guts Research Program is my feeble attempt to pay back what I have received. I simply want to replicate a similar opportunity to the next generation who are underrepresented and less privileged like I was in the early phases of my life … By attracting more underrepresented students to health care education, the U.S. health care work force will be enriched and will lead to better health care for all.”
The Young Guts Scholar Program supports this mission through a generous stipend for undergraduate students performing research in the laboratory of an AGA member during the academic school year. The opportunity is exclusively available to students from select groups, particularly those underrepresented in biomedical research.
Six undergraduate students will be selected to participate in this program and will also be given the opportunity to network with experts from around the world at Digestive Disease Week®.
Learn more about the Young Guts Scholar Program and encourage your students to apply by May 4, 2022.
