Atlanta Center for Translational Research on Endometriosis (ACTRE)
Applications
Applications for ACTRE's 2-year undergraduate scholar program are now being accepted. The deadline to submit a completed application is December 20, 2010. Click here for more information and an application form or to email our program.
The Atlanta Center for Research in Endometriosis (ACTRE pronounced actor) is a cooperative partnership for reserach and education between the reproductive research programs at Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) and Emory University. This unique grant supports translational clinical research focusing on the regulation of endometriotic cell cycle dynamics to determine why endometriotic cell apoptosis is dysregulated and how might it be therapeutically induced in future treatments for endometriosis. The partnership builds on strong reproductive research programs directed by Robert N. Taylor, MD, PhD at Emory and Winston E. Thompson, PhD at MSM and includes a mentored research experience for undergraduate students aimed at promoting workforce diversity and education in the reproductive sciences and women's health. This is the first time this grant has been awarded and it is one of only two in the nation to be funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Building on long standing undergraduate research training programs lead by Dr. Marlene MacLeish at MSM and Dr. Patricia Marsteller at Emory, ACTRE will recruit, support and train under-represented minority college students throughout Atlanta to study the health implications and biology of endometriosis taking a unique from the bedside to the bench approach.
Additional information on the ACTRE faculty, their research interests, the undergraduate scholar program, and other useful links can be found on our website. We welcome you to visit the site regularly for updates on the center's progress and programs.
Press Release Announcing the Atlanta Center for Research in Endometriosis