Twelve teens attended the Institute’s eight-week Heithoff-Brody Scholars Program this past summer, working in labs side-by-side with Salk scientists on cutting-edge research, formulating and testing hypotheses, preparing experiments and attending lab meetings. An offering of Salk’s Education Outreach, the scholars program is more than 40 years old.
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