The Institute is committed to ensuring that the next generation of medical practice and research includes the best and brightest from among our diverse communities. Our “pipeline” education and mentoring programs begin in middle school and run through postgraduate training.

Over 100 NYU physicians, researchers and medical students donate their time as guest lecturers and student mentors each year at The Salk School of Science, a NYC public middle school offering an enhanced science education to students in grades 6-8.

Our High School Fellows Program, founded in 1987, is one of the first and longest-running programs in the US offering motivated NYC public high school juniors and seniors from low-income, underrepresented minorities the opportunity to learn bench science and public health from faculty mentors at NYU School of Medicine. The full-year program includes seminars, research design, seminars with NYU and Bellevue Hospital faculty, and college advisement.

Bridging the Gap offers NYU pre-med and health majors opportunities for networking and mentoring with NYU School of Medicine students and faculty throughout the undergraduate years.

For further information about PPESM programs, contact Martha Laureano.