Alaska Biomedical Partnership for the Research and Education Pipeline (BioPREP) seeks to engage students in cutting-edge scientific research while they are still in high school in order to prepare them for the rigor of university-level scientific inquiry. We especially reach out to rural and Alaska Native students who may not receive the same research opportunities as their counterparts in urban high schools.

Alaska BioPREP began in 2008 and is funded by a National Institutes of Health Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA). BioPREP is comprised of six main programs targeting high school students and teachers throughout Alaska: Alaska Summer Research Academy (ASRA) Biomedicine and Genetics modules; BioPREP-U; Jurassic Genetics: North Slope Edition; Rural Alaska Honors Institute-Next Step (RAHI II); Training Institute for Partnerships in Science (TIPS) for Teachers; and, TIPS for Students.