LURE Leeds Undergraduate Research Enterprise Karen Lee Aisha Ismail

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LURELeeds Undergraduate Research Enterprise
Karen LeeAisha Ismail
School of Medicine FACULTY OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH
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Leeds Undergraduate Research Enterprise

• Scholarship scheme for undergraduate medical
  students to develop research and academic skills

• conduct and disseminate research
• mentoring and being mentored
• schools, widening participation, alumni and
  community activities

Photograph Simon and Simon
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Structure of presentation
Structure of presentation

• Who we are
• Why we developed LURE
• Inspiration
• Undergraduate research
• Network of mentoring
• Community outreach
• Outcomes
• Scholar perspective

Photograph Karen Lee
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LURE Co-Director

• Professor Homer-Vanniasinkam
• Consultant Vascular Surgeon, Leeds Teaching
  Hospitals NHS Trust
• Personal Chair in Clinical and Experimental
  Vascular Research at University of Bradford
• Chair in Translational Vascular Medicine at the
  University of Bradford
• Clinical Sub Dean, Leeds Medical School
• Director, Northwick Park Institute for Medical
  Research, London
• Honorary Professor, Division of Surgical
  Interventional Sciences, University College
  London
• Co-director of LURE scholarships

Photograph by Professor Alistair Hall
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LURE Co-Director
Photograph by Simon and Simon
Dhakshana Sivayoganathan, Lakshmanan Arunachalam,
Dr Karen Lee, Peter Mackley and Junaid Azam
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Specimen scholar

• Aisha Ismail
• HR UK LURE scholar appointed June 2009
• Started research at end of Year 2
• Next week will be a Year 3 medical student
• One of six appointed in 2008-09

Leeds School of Medicine
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Why develop a scholarship scheme
Why develop a scholarship scheme?

• Difficult to recruit Leeds MBChB graduates to NHS
  academic clinical posts
• Poor curriculum vitae of Leeds applicants
• Medical school not stretching some students
  sufficiently

BMJ 2 October 2004 Academic medicine who is it
for?
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Benefits of research
Benefits of research
Benefits of research

• Adrian Jubb, BSc, PhD, MBChB
• Inspiration for LURE
• Dr Adrian Jubb said
• autonomy and ownership
• opinion matters
• accelerates later career
• opens doors
• nice lifestyle
• novel and interesting vs medical practice
• travel (lots of air miles)

Photograph by Adrian Jubb
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LURE activities summary
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LURE application and bursary
LURE application and bursary
LURE family scholars, academic mentors and a
sponsor
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Since 2005-06, 4-6 students per year Written
application Short list Presentation to
selection panel Bursary Year 2 2000 Year 3
2000 Intercalated year 3000 Year 4 500
Year 5 500 Travel and research funds
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Three components of LURE

• Scholarship scheme for undergraduate medical
  students to develop research and academic skills

• conduct and disseminate research
• mentoring and being mentored
• schools, widening participation, alumni and
  community activities

Leeds School of Medicine
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Research of Chris Lewis
Research of Chris Lewis
Developing expertise in specialised subject

• Vocation for International Health
• Self designed project with academic mentor
• TB in Nepal after Y2
• SSC in Tanzania in Y3

Photograph by Haidari Nadoo

• Intercalating MSc in Global Health Sciences
  at University of Oxford

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Research of Trusha Bhatt
Research of Trusha Bhatt
Preparing for and extending benefits of
intercalation

• Pilot LURE scholar, sponsored by HR UK
• Tissue engineering in Institute of Molecular
  and Biological Engineering, Leeds
• UCLA Berkeley, Professor Kevin Healy producing
  scaffolds for cell growth from synthetic polymers

• McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine at
  the University of Pittsburgh, Dr Steve Badylak,
  harvesting smooth muscle cells

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Research of Simon Romaine
Research of Trusha Bhatt
Networking and taking opportunities

• Simon is at Harvard University undertaking
  research elective with Dr Sekar Kathiresan,
  Director of Preventive Cardiology
• Presentation at American Heart Association
  Conference, New Orleans, November 2008
• Romaine SPR, Balmforth AJ, Bailey KM, Hall AS.
  The breast cancer resistance protein (BCRP)
  421CgtA single nucleotide poly-morphism predicts
  improved low-density-lipoprotein cholesterol
  reduction by rosu-vastatin. Circulation 2008
  118(18) S_426.

Photograph Alistair Hall
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Three components of LURE

• Scholarship scheme for undergraduate medical
  students to develop research and academic skills

• conduct and disseminate research
• mentoring and being mentored
• schools, widening participation, alumni and
  community activities

Leeds School of Medicine
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University of Leeds Strategy
LURE T6, T3 and T9
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Network of mentoring
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Network of mentoring
LURE scholars and mentors
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Mentoring facilitates academic skills

• Write a profile of your Professor
• Monthly meetings
• E-journal club and electronic social networking
• Sharing, classifying and reporting experiences
• Recruiting

Recruitment poster designed by LURE scholar
Oliver Richards
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Communication and aspiration
Photograph by Professor Charlotte Rees
Left, LURE scholar Mais Al-Hity in Sydney,
Australia, December 2007, talking about LURE
Right, University of Leeds Vice-Chancellor,
Professor Michael Arthur, greets LURE scholars
Cindy Kim, Barbara Onen and Junaid Azam at an
alumni event
Photograph by UoL Media Services
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High profile
Superman Sir Jimmy Savile, OBE, LLD substantial
donation to fund LURE
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Three components of LURE

• Scholarship scheme for undergraduate medical
  students to develop research and academic skills

• conduct and disseminate research
• mentoring and being mentored
• schools, widening participation, alumni and
  community activities

Leeds School of Medicine
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Menu of community outreach activities

• WP Summer Schools
• WP Speakers into Schools
• EKT Community participation events
• Brightside Trust eMentoring
• Widening Access to Medical Schools (WAMS)
• HeartStart
• St Johns Ambulance
• StopAIDS
• Homed
• Samaritans
• St Georges Crypt
• Leadership in business

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LURE scholars Mais Al Hity and Lakshmanan
Arunachalam talk to 16 year pupils about medical
research at a WP Summer School 2007
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Widening participation
Working with school children
Photograph Simon and Simon
Photograph by Simon and Simon
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LURE scholarship scheme
Outcomes
Dhakshana Sivayoganathan
Photograph African Revival
Photograph African Revival
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LURE scholarship scheme
Graduation and beyond
Dhakshana Sivayoganathan
Photograph Karen Lee
Photograph African Revival
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LURE scholarship scheme
NHS Foundation Schools
Dhakshana Sivayoganathan
Image from DVD University of Leeds Media
Services
Photograph African Revival
Fourth year medical student and LURE scholar
Junaid Azam in the hospital cardiopulmonary
testing laboratory
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Leeds Undergraduate Research Enterprise

• Scholarship scheme for undergraduate medical
  students to develop research and academic skills

• conduct and disseminate research
• mentoring and being mentored
• schools, widening participation, alumni and
  community activities

Photograph Simon and Simon
Photograph Simon and Simon
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Scholar perspective

• Aisha Ismail
• HR UK LURE scholar appointed June 2009
• Next week will be a Year 3 medical student

Photograph Karen Lee