The Rural & Underserved Utah Training Experience (RUUTE) & Regional Affairs Program has worked to develop a 10-week research experience for undergraduate students.
The emphasis of this program is to provide research opportunities for students from rural and underserved areas throughout Utah, Idaho, Wyoming and Montana for students to work on projects emphasizing rural and underserved health.
For more information contact kacey.madsen@hsc.utah.edu
Applications are now closed for Summer of '25. For more information on applications of Summer of '26 please email us.
In order to apply to the program, applicants must meet the following criteria:
Students selected into the program will receive a stipend over the course of the program. This stipend will be used for student expenses and living accommodations, and will not be a tuition scholarship. Students will also be able to highlight this on their Resume or CV.
Participants relocating to Salt Lake City for this program may be eligible to receive a travel stipend for travel-related expenses.
Project: Direct metabolic regulation of RNA function in human cells.
Project: Cochlear blood vascular degeneration from cytomegalovirus infection
Project: Elucidate the mechanisms responsible for vascular complications associated with inactivity, obesity, insulin resistance, and diabetes.
Project: Innovative models for care coordination to improve outcomes for high-risk surgical patients during transitions of care
Project: Focus on disparities in prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease with a focus on hypertension and antihypertensive medication use. Using pharmacoepidemiology and pharmacogenetics, we try to better understand causes of racial differences in medication responses and outcomes. We apply these findings to understand the population-level impact, generalizability, and cost-effectiveness in diverse groups.
Project: Understanding the basic regulation of adipose stem cell function and to identify factors that can be used to reprogram these cells into energetically more active cells for the treatment of obesity.
Project: Novel chromatin binding proteins differentially regulated in hypertrophy and heart failure
Project: Changes in metabolism during heart failure
Project: Quantitative approaches to the study of cardiac arrhythmias
Project: Evaluating the role of epithelial sodium channels in the innate immune response.
Project: Molecular and cellular basis of inherited arrhythmias and congenital heart disease
Project: Advancement of the field of recovery from heart failure with a specific focus upon characterizing the clinical, metabolic, and molecular profile of the failing versus recovered human heart in order to understand, predict and manipulate cardiac recovery.
Project: Results of Increased Surface Area on Impedance in Multi-Contact Cardiac Pacing Electrodes
Project: Radiology Research T1 Segmentation and Analysis using MatLab and CVI 4
Project: Biochemistry - Exploring COX7B as a Human Riboswitch
Project: Heart Disease - Investigating the Role of skNAC in Cultured Cardiomyocytes
Project: Nutrition & Integrative Psychology; The Impact of Inducible Depletion of p62/SQSTM1 from Endothelial Cells on Mesenteric and Cerebral Artery Reactivity in Mice
Project: The role of autophagy in metabolic regulation; Prdm16 Regulates Sex-specific Genes in Cardiac Development Through DNA Damage
Project: Internal Medicine - Hematology; Effect of Prenatal Folate on HSC Function
Project: Investigation of Ceramide Synthesizing Genes
Project: Interferon Induced Transmembrane Protein 3 (IFITM3) Mediates Platelet Granule Secretion Under Conditions of Inflammatory Stress
Project: Heart Disease - Investigating the Role of skNAC in Cultured Cardiomyocytes
Project: Dr. Quantification of in vitro transduction efficiency of AAV9-cBIN1 across different viral batches
Project: Efficacy of blebbistatin and para-aminoblebbistatin as inhibitors of muscle contraction in juvenile zebrafish hearts
To find more ways to donate towards rural medical student scholarships, please visit the Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine Website.
Please contact the RUUTE Team with any questions, concerns, or suggestions.
Email: RUUTE@umail.utah.edu