Medicine Student Accepted to NIH Research Program

Third-year Northeast Ohio Medical University College of Medicine student Keval Yerigeri has been selected nationally for the Medical Research Scholars Program (MRSP) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

The research training program allows medical, dental, and veterinary students to take a break from their university studies to live on the intramural campus of the NIH in Bethesda, Maryland, and conduct basic, clinical or translational research.

During his time in the MRSP program, Yerigeri will take part in courses and lectures, journal club seminars and clinical teaching rounds at the nation’s research hospital (the NIH Clinical Center).

Natasha Kesav, a fourth-year College of Medicine student, was a part of the 2018-2019 MRSP cohort.

She spent a year working with mentor, H. Nida Sen, M.D., head of the clinical and translational immunology unit at the National Eye Institute (NEI) – one of the entities under the umbrella of the National Institutes of Health.