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![Destiny Green at VRIP closing ceremony holding her program certificate with her family and VRIP program staff.](https://catalyst.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Family-Photo-HMS-2-750x500.jpg)
Visiting Intern Bucks Odds in Career Pursuit
February 15, 2024 | Five Questions with Destiny Green on finding meaningful mentorship in a white male field.
Read story![Paulo Lizano and Erik Velez Perez.](https://catalyst.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Paulo-Lizano-and-Erik-Velez-Perez.jpg)
Summer Sessions: Embracing Diversity and Researching the Roots of Psychosis
August 8, 2023 | Five Questions with Erik Velez Perez and Paulo Lizano.
Read story![Lashawn Pena standing at a podium giving a presentation.](https://catalyst.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Unknown.jpeg)
Three Questions with Visiting Medical Student Lashawn Peña
August 1, 2023 | Our summer intern talks to us about his mentored research project at Harvard Medical School.
Read story![Ateh Zinkeng in his medical white coat standing next to The University of Arizona College of Medicine flag.](https://catalyst.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/202200465_COM_White_Coat_2022-0496-1-1.jpg)
Three Questions with Visiting Medical Student Ateh Zinkeng
July 26, 2023 | Our summer intern discusses his career aspirations in medicine.
Read story![2023 VRIP interns in front of the Harvard Medical School sign.](https://catalyst.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/VRIP-2023-Group-Photo84-1.jpg)
Visiting Medical Students Tackle Big Research Questions
July 5, 2023 | Our annual internship program draws students from around the U.S. for a mentored clinical experience.
Read story![Nathaniel Harnett in an aerial silks class.](https://catalyst.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Nathaniel-Harnett-aerial-silks-image.jpg)
Neuroimaging Links Structural Racism to Brain Changes, PTSD
June 15, 2023 | Five Questions with Nathaniel Harnett on his two-year fellowship with Harvard Catalyst.
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Buy-In from Black Patients Suffers When Drug Trials Don’t Include Them
January 17, 2023 | Diversifying clinical trials could build trust in new treatments among Black people and their physicians.
Read story![HMS Dean Joan Reede with the 2022 summer interns at the Visiting Research Internship Program’s closing ceremony.](https://catalyst.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/VRIP-group-shot-Joan-Reede.png)
Building Equity in Biomedical Research
January 5, 2023 | Intensive summer program kindles next-gen diversity in clinical, translational sciences.
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