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<div>Shonool Malik</div>
<div>Associate Director,<font size="-1"> MIT Careers
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students.<br>
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Thank you.<br>
Shonool<br>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font size="+2">Dear Shonool:</font><br>
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It was very nice to talk to you earlier today about two new Ph.D.
programs in the biomedical sciences sponsored jointly by the National
Institutes of Health (NIH) and Cambridge and Oxford Universities in
England. Per our conversation, I'm attaching PDF files
containing a one page program description as well as a list of
"Frequently Asked Questions" for both the NIH-Oxford and
NIH-Cambridge programs. As you will see,these are unique,
innovative programs designed for top students that enable them to work
in two different laboratories (one at the NIH and one in the UK) on a
collaborative research project. These programs grew out of the
realization that the next generation of research scientists will
increasingly need to think in an interdisciplinary fashion and to
surmount the intellectual and experimental barriers that presently
exist between traditional disciplines. Although the programs
were started in 2001 and 2002, they have already attracted many
outstanding applicants from some of the best colleges and university
in the country. Prospective applicants may be particularly
interested in visiting a terrific website
(<u>http://users.ox.ac.uk/~chri1906/</u>) that was developed by the
students who are currently enrolled in the NIH-Oxford program (a
similar website is under development for the NIH-Cambridge
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I would be extremely grateful if you could disseminate information
about these programs to science/engineering students at MIT who are
interested in pursuing a career in biomedical research as well as
appropriate faculty in the science departments.</font><br>
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Many thanks in advance for your help!</font><br>
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Best wishes,<br>
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Harris Bernstein<br>
Director of Admissions<br>
NIH-Oxford/Cambridge Ph.D. programs</font><br>
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Genetics and Biochemistry Branch/NIDDK<br>
National Institutes of Health<br>
Building 5, Room 201<br>
5 Memorial Drive<br>
Bethesda, MD 20892-0538<br>
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Phone: 301-402-4770<br>
Fax: 301-496-9878<br>
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Malik</b></font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font color="#000080"><b>Associate
Director,<font size="-1"> MIT Careers Office<br>
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Cambridge, MA 02139-4307<br>
Tel: (617) 253-4733<br>
Fax: (617) 253-8457<br>
http://web.mit.edu/career/www</font></font></blockquote>
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