On March 4, SPS students (Class 2011) who enrolled in the pilot overseas program at Melbourne Medical School celebrated their completion of the master’s degree for research. YANG Haoyu, WAN Beinan and CHEN Sui from SPS are among the first cohort of the program to complete the two-year research program at University of Melbourne.
SPS has developed multiple pilot overseas programs across the world. The University of Pittsburgh’s School of Medicine program started in 2012, and has three cohorts, a total of 12 students. The University of California - San Francisco (UCSF) program started in 2014, and has three cohorts, a total of 11 students. The University of Melbourne
program has three cohorts.
To date, these students have participated in 11 international conferences and presented 10 oral and poster presentations. Their research work can be found in many top international journals, including 27 published papers and 2 accepted papers. WANG Yao has published her work in Plos Genetics as the co-first author. WU Jianchen also published a paper as the contributing author. MO Han received the Mary Anne Koda-Kimble Seed Award for Innovation (2016 and 2017).
Not only have these students achieved academic honors, they have also gained valuable experiences in laboratory research, a global perspective on science as well as new opportunities for their future endeavors.
