How To Apply

• Submit an Online
Application

• Submit a Statement
of Purpose
(included in the
online application)

• Submit two Letters

of Recommendation UC Berkeley
About the Amgen Scholars Amgen Scholars
• Submit College
Summer Research Program Transcripts Summer Program
The Amgen Scholars Program is
(unofficial transcripts
are acceptable)
2010
a national ten-campus program to
increase research opportunities for
• Submit your
students committed to pursuing
supporting
careers in the sciences.
documents by:
February 2, 2010
This program provides research
experience, enhances participants’ • Application
research skills, and increases their Deadline:
competitiveness as candidates for February 2, 2010
admission to prestigious graduate
institutions. • 2010 Program Dates:
May 31 - August 6
This program also exposes participants
to the diversity of research offered
at Berkeley and encourages an
interdisciplinary approach to science.
Scholars are encouraged to pursue a
doctoral degree and research careers
in the sciences and biotechnology.

Applicants from diverse populations

and backgrounds are encouraged to
apply. Thanks to the Amgen
Foundation for its generous The Amgen Scholars Program is an
support of this program Undergraduate Summer Research
Program in Science & Biotechnology
www.amgenscholars.com
 2010 UC Berkeley Amgen Scholars Program
Eligibility Research Areas
• Must be a • Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
U.S. citizen or
permanent resident • Bioengineering
(International
• Biophysics
students are
ineligible) • Cell & Developmental
Benefits Biology
• Undergraduate
students enrolled in • Direct research • Chemical Biology
four-year colleges experience with
and universities a UCB faculty • Chemical Engineering
in the U.S., Puerto member
• Chemistry
Rico, and other U.S.
territories • $3,800 stipend
• Computational Biology
• Sophomores, • Round trip travel • Genetics/Genomics & Development
Requirements
juniors, and non- cost
graduating seniors • Immunology As a 2010 participant, you will be
(freshmen are • On-campus required to:
ineligible) housing (room • Integrative Biology
and board) • Commit to full-time direct participation
• Microbiology
• 3.2 GPA or higher on a research project(s)
• Access to UC
Berkeley campus • Molecular Genetics
• Interest in research • Attend weekly seminars and/or
and the pursuit of a facilities • Neurobiology/Neuroscience workshops
Ph.D. or M.D./Ph.D.
• Participation • Plant & Microbial Biology • Meet regularly with the graduate student
• Prior research in the 2010 assistant for the program
experience National Amgen • Structural Biology
preferred Scholars Program • Submit preliminary and final abstracts
Symposium • Synthetic Biology (SynBERC)
• No prior • Attend the Amgen Scholars National
participation as an • College Symposium July 17-19, 2010
Amgen Sholar course credits
(transferable UCB • Present research findings in poster and
research units) oral presentations

• Complete Amgen Foundation and UCB

Amgen Program evaluations

For more information please contact:

Apply Online Beginning November 2009
amgenscholars.berkeley.edu
Application Deadline is February 2, 2010
Audrey Knowlton, Program Director
158 Barrows Hall MC#2990
Berkeley, CA 94720-2990
Phone: 510.642.0280
Email: amgenscholars@berkeley.edu