About
Overview
Are you a Henrico County student who is:
- Interested in the life and health sciences?
- Planning on pursuing a college major in biology, biomedical engineering, microbiology, tissue engineering, chemistry or biochemistry?
- Interested in pursuing a professional career in medicine, dentistry, research, pharmacy, veterinary science or nursing?
- Excited by new theories, discoveries, and applications in medicine and science?
The Todd Allen Phillips Center for Medical Sciences emphasizes a diagnostic, crosscurricular approach to problem-solving using hypotheses, research, experimentation and mathematical techniques. Come learn to explore the world within you; come prepare to develop the world of tomorrow!
The Center is designed to provide qualified students with interest in medicine and health sciences the opportunity to gain early exposure to advanced coursework, research laboratories and medical shadowing. Program admission requires an application process and is limited to students who reside in Henrico County. HCPS provides transportation to out-of-zone students selected to participate in the program.
Facilities
The Todd Allen Phillips Center for Medical Sciences is housed in a dedicated space within Mills E. Godwin High School in western Henrico County. Center students have access to:
- Five classrooms.
- Two wet-lab.s
- A student study room.
- A networked printer.
- A 3D printer.
- Two autoclave machines.
- Vernier probes.
- A polymerase chain reaction machine.
- A centrifuge.
- Gas chromatographs.
- A UV/VIS spectrophotometer.
- A SpectroVIS.
- Polarimeters.
- Melting point apparatus
- Microscale organic glassware.
- A shaking water bath.
- A bacti-loop microsterilizer.
- Various growth media.
- Micropipettes.
- Eppendorf tubes.
- A vortex mixer.
- SDS-PAGE electrophoresis.