About

The School2Lab program is an NCI‑sponsored, research‑intensive summer fellowship hosted at Howard University, with leadership and major participation from the Johns Hopkins University, Sibley Memorial Hospital. It is part of Howard’s strategic initiative to expand STEMM pathways, cancer research training, and provide research opportunities for high school students across the Washington, D.C.–Maryland–Virginia region.

School2Lab seeks to cultivate high-achieving high school students from low‑income families (defined as <200% of the federal poverty level) and from educationally under resourced (most commonly first-generation college or attends, or would have attended based on their home address, a high school where the majority are also low-income) backgrounds, by providing early exposure to physical and biomedical research.