BS/MD Results - Fall 2021 cycle

grtd2010
Mon, 17 May 2021 15:28:08 +0000

Computer Science/data science is widely used in biological research in areas like bioinformatics, genomic medicine, computational biology ( CMU has a separate department devoted to it). Some places one can get a BS/BA in genomic medicine. You can combine one’s interest in biological sciences (with medicine related majors) and CS to do a double major. It is also a very good topic to talk about CS and how it is used in medical research.
One has to make own efforts to contact researchers and may be lucky to get a few response. There is a whole hierarchy of researchers under a PI - post-docs, graduate students mostly seeking PhD or MS, UG students and then comes the bottom of the totem pole namely high school students. Most UG students start in a research lab during freshman year doing menial jobs like cleaning equipment and then progress as time goes by. One does not get to publish a first author paper in ONE summer assignment but can get a casual mention in one.