North Carolina Association for Biomedical Research

The schedule for Bridging the Gap 2024 has been announced. Please check it out at https://www.ncabr.org/btg-2024-schedule/

We are excited to announce the call for presenters for Bridging the Gap 2024 is now open. To learn more, please visit: https://www.ncabr.org/presenter-resources-2024/

Got summer plans? Are you a high school science teacher or community college science faculty? Then we have an opportunity for you! Applications are being accepted now for the 2024 STaRS Experience at NIEHS. To learn more visit:

STaRS Experience | NCABR The North Carolina Association for Biomedical Research (NCABR) is a nonprofit science education organization dedicated to promoting public understanding of and support for bioscience research and careers.

There will be a special presentation at this year's Bridging the Gap Conference by Dr. Samantha Meltzer-Brody addressing Mental Health in America: What Today’s Educators Need to Know.

In her presentation, Dr. Meltzer-Brody will discuss the enormous mental health needs facing our youth and how teachers can help to address the mental health crisis we face.

Register now to attend: https://www.ncabr.org/registration-2023/

Registration and presenter applications are underway for Bridging the Gap 2023. To learn more, visit our website at https://www.ncabr.org/btg2023/

We are excited to announce the call for presenters for Bridging the Gap 2023 is now open. To learn more, please visit: https://www.ncabr.org/presenter-resources-2023/

We are excited to announce that Dr. Ann Kulze (https://drannwellness.com/) will be the opening keynote on January 31, 2023, to launch the virtual Bridging the Gap STEM Educator Wellness Reboot.

Dr. Ann is a best-selling author, physician and highly sought motivational speaker in the areas of nutrition and healthy living.

To register, visit: https://www.ncabr.org/register/

Wellness, Weight Loss, Health, Dr Ann, Eat Right For Life Dr. Ann is nutrition and wellness expert, physician, author, motivational speaker, foodie, mother of 4. Free wellness resources.

We are excited to announce the preliminary schedule for this year's in-person Bridging the Gap conference, which will be held Oct. 25-26 at the North Carolina Biotechnology Center in Research Triangle Park, N.C.

To view the schedule, please visit: https://www.ncabr.org/btg-schedule/

Bridging the Gap 2022: Registration and call for presenters is open. To learn more please visit: https://www.ncabr.org/btg2022/

We are excited to announce that four dynamic leaders in medicine will share their personal career journeys in a special Bridging the Gap live plenary discussion on October 27 for K-16 educators and their students.

The panelists will discuss their careers in human and animal medicine – careers where racial and ethnic diversity is needed – and they will provide advice and inspiration for students to consider.

This is a session you will not want to miss!

Only a few seats remain for the special Communications Workshop for STEM Educators developed exclusively for this year’s Bridging the Gap conference.

Pre-registration will be required to participate. Only 25 Bridging the Gap conference attendees will be permitted to participate. Deadline to register is September 27. To register, visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bridging-the-gap-2021-communications-workshop-registration-167106499037

One must be fully registered for the 2021 Bridging the Gap conference to register for this workshop.

We are excited to announce that Barton Haynes, M.D., Director of the Human Vaccine Institute (DHVI) in the Duke University School of Medicine, will provide an up-to-date briefing on all things COVID-19 at the 2021 Bridging the Gap conference.

In his talk, COVID Vaccines, SARS-CoV-2 Variants and the Prospects for a Pancoronavirus Vaccine, Dr. Haynes will address the status of the vaccine for infants and children, booster shots and the effectiveness of existing vaccines against current SARS-CoV-2 variants, and he will discuss the current prospects of a pancoronavirus vaccine.

Announcing BTG 2021 Keynote: Nimmi Ramanujam, Ph.D., an innovator, educator, entrepreneur and change agent at Duke University who solves problems that bring better health and improved quality of life to people throughout the world. Come hear about her inspiring career, her work and her inventions, including the Pocket Colposcope, which has the potential to revolutionize cervical cancer screening in low resource communities by enhancing the effectiveness and scalability of the screening process, reducing loss to follow up and guiding treatment decisions.

Exciting opportunity to attend BTG 2021!! The Burroughs Wellcome Fund has 10 scholarships remaining to attend BTG 2021 for free. Restrictions apply. To learn more, visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/burroughs-wellcome-fund-scholars-program-at-bridging-the-gap-2021-tickets-161932848509

Burroughs Wellcome Fund Scholars Program at Bridging the Gap 2021 Burroughs Wellcome Fund Scholars Program at Bridging the Gap 2021

New keynote announced for BTG 2021: Thomas Randall, Ph.D., an expert in Integrated Bioinformatics at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in Research Triangle Park, will tell us what companies like Ancestry and 23andMe can and can’t tell us about who we are.

BTG 2021 call for presenters is live. To learn more or to submit an application, please visit: www.btgvirtual.com/present-a-session/

Registration and call for speakers for Bridging the Gap 2021 will open in May. www.btgvirtual.com

We are looking forward to the virtual Bridging the Gap 2020 conference next week on October 27 -28. We’ve prepared a short video here for you to watch in preparation for the conference. https://youtu.be/i58yOpVD5sI

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Exciting news! The schedule for the virtual Bridging the Gap 2020 STEM education conference has been announced. Please check it out at http://bridgingthegapnc.com/schedule.

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To keep you safe – and to continue to support your professional growth, Bridging the Gap 2020 will be provided as a fully virtual conference on October 27-28. https://bridgingthegapnc.com/