The Association of Clinical Pathologists is keen to encourage undergraduates to undertake some research within laboratory medicine, to raise the profile of laboratory medicine within the minds of undergraduates and to aid in recruitment of young graduates. Increasingly Medical Schools are integrating elective student projects into the curriculum and these may be in laboratory medicine, often with a small research or audit project. These can require small amounts of funding for reagents, minor consumables or even, on occasion, staff overtime such as the cutting of histological sections for the student to perform immunohistochemistry.
The ACP Student Research Fund is open to applications from undergraduate students (sponsored by ACP members if possible). Applications for an ACP Student Research Fund Award can be submitted at any time during the year. Applications are considered four times each year.