**Description**
**Overview of Department & Mentor**
Under the leadership of Dr Mark Pimentel, the Medically Associated Science and Technology (MAST) program at Cedars-Sinai is dedicated to the development of novel drugs and devices to diagnose and treat patients. This innovative program is working to develop new diagnostics and therapeutics to treat patients with illnesses related to imbalances or alterations in metabolism and the microbiome.
**Role Activities & Timeline**
Supervisor(s) and intern will meet in person to discuss goals and evaluate experience, outline curriculum and learning tasks, and evaluate progress in experience via rubric testing. Throughout the up to 6 months timeline, communication is a vital part of the experience and communication of progress, experience, and presentations will occur at weekly laboratory meetings. Feedback on presentations and annotation of study and data will also occur at these weekly meetings.
+ Month 1-2: Experimental projec...