Stanford EXPLORE 2025: A Lecture Series on Biomedical Research For High School Students

The Stanford Explore Lecture Series is an exploratory series covering the basic fundamentals and current research areas represented by the various research areas of the Stanford School of Medicine (Immunology, Neuroscience, Regenerative and Stem Cell Medicine, Cancer Biology, Bioengineering and Bioinformatics). The lectures will be taught by graduate students and postdoctoral fellows along with some lectures taught by Faculty.

The main focus of the series is attending lectures similar to what students will be exposed to in college.  Besides learning about the basic fundamentals of each topic, students will also learn about some of the current research as well as current techniques and applications that are used.  Furthermore, there will be opportunities to learn about the graduate and medical school education pathways from current students.   No homework assignments will be given.  The schedule is 9am-12pm daily via a zoom webinar format for the lectures and tentatively also as an in-person option. There will be a couple breakout sessions each week via regular zoom. Students need to sign up for all 3 weeks of the course.  The online registration will open on MARCH 1, 2025.  

  • PROGRAM DATES FOR SUMMER 2025: July 7-25, 2025 (Monday through Friday)
  • TIME: 9am-12pm daily (Pacific Standard Time) - Tentative plans are to have an in-person program at Stanford and also an online program option.  This will be finalized by March 1, 2025 when the Stanford EXPLORE registration goes live on our website.
  • PLACE: Stanford University (School of Medicine) 
  • ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS: Students must currently be in 9th-12th grade at the time of registration.  Students must also be U.S. citizens or permanent residents with a green card currently living in the U.S.  Many of the lectures will be at a high level so we strongly encourage students to have sufficient preparation in the sciences demonstrated by mostly As and Bs in their science courses and taking at least one year of high school biology before the program.
  • COST: $2500 in person cost; $2000 online version (Tentative)
  • SUMMER 2025 TENTATIVE PLANS (PLEASE READ):  We are planning to have a in-person program option as well as a virtual zoom webinar program option for the summer of 2025 for 3 weeks (July 7-July 25th, 2025; 9am-12pm PST).  For the online option, the zoom webinar format will be used for the lectures.  Webinars do not allow for student video/audio so questions during lectures will be submitted through the Q &A feature on zoom.  In addition to the lectures, there will also be a couple zoom breakout sessions each week using regular zoom.  The formats will be finalized by March 1st when the registration begins.
  • PLEASE NOTE:  REGISTRATION OPENS MARCH 1, 2025 FOR THE SUMMER 2025 PROGRAM.
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  • TOPICS FOR EACH WEEK:
  • July 7-11.   Immunology/Neuroscience
  • July 14-18 Stem Cell/Cancer
  • July 21-25  Bioinformatics/Bioengineering