Group photo of the CREU Program

Cancer Research Experience for Undergraduates (CREU)


 

Through the University of Colorado Cancer Center's Cancer Research Experience for Undergraduates (CREU), every summer, selected college undergraduate fellows spend ten weeks in our laboratories at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. An R25CA240122 grant and the University of Colorado Cancer Center support the CREU program.

The goal of the program is to engage scientific curiosity in the next generation of scientists, challenging qualified college undergraduates to consider a cancer-related career in the future.

Additional participants in the American Cancer Society’s (ACS) Diversity in Cancer Research (DICR) Internship program will form a cohort with fellows participating in CREU. For more information on the DICR Internship program, which will use the same application as CREU, click here.

Important Dates

November 1, 2024 – February 3, 2025: Program application open

February 3, 2025: Final application deadline (11:59 pm MT)

May 27 – August 1, 2025: CREU/DICR Program

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Meet Our Past Fellows



CREU 2024 Alumni Rank in Top 15% for Cancer Biology Presentations at Fall Conference

CREU 2024 alumni Troy Sensano (University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa), Reina Saldivar (University of Texas at San Antonio), and Alondra Rodriguez (University of Texas at El Paso) were recognized for their Outstanding Undergraduate Poster Presentations in Cancer Biology at the 2024 Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Scientists (ABRCMS) in Pittsburgh, PA. Their presentations placed them in the top 15% of students presenting in the Cancer Biology category at the conference.

Congratulations to Troy, Reina, and Alondra, and best wishes to them and their 2024 cohort in all their future endeavors!

Three people holding certificates

Elijah Johnson, a 2022 CREU Fellow, came to the CU Cancer Center to research the mutation that makes him more likely to develop cancer.

Growing up in Windsor, Colorado, Elijah Johnson thought he would grow up to be a professional musician. He never considered a career as a biomedical researcher. But that all changed when his mother was diagnosed with Li-Fraumeni Syndrome (LFS), a rare genetic mutation that increases the risk of cancer.

→ Read Elijah's Story Here.

Elijah Johnson (cropped, 800 x 480)


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