The Wayne State University School of Medicine will host its 2001 Graduate Student Research Day on Thursday, Sept. 13. Throughout the day, School of Medicine graduate students will be presenting original research in the form of posters and oral presentations.

The purpose of this annual event is to promote interactions between faculty and students in the different biomedical and basic-science fields as well as to increase general awareness of research activities performed by graduate students at WSU.

In addition to its role as one of the nation's largest training grounds for medical students, the WSU School of medicine also boasts 320 talented PhD candidates studying and conducting groundbreaking research alongside world-renowned faculty members. WSU graduate students study in a wide variety of fields, including anatomy and cell biology, biochemistry and molecular biology, cancer biology, cellular and clinical neurobiology, immunology and microbiology, molecular biology and genetics, pathology, pharmacology and physiology.

Posters will be on display from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., and oral presentations will be occurring throughout the day. Dr. John Ridge, a program director at the National Institutes of Health, will speak following lunch about the grant review process. A reception honoring the best research projects will be at the end of the day. All activities will take be in the Gordon H. Scott Hall of Basic Medical Sciences, 540 E. Canfield.

With more than 1,000 medical students, WSU is among the nation's largest medical schools. Together with the Detroit Medical Center, the school is a leader in patient care and medical research in a number of areas including cancer, women and children's health and the neurosciences.