PUMAS (Promoting Underrepresented Minorities Advancing in the Sciences) is a paid nine-week biomedical research internship at the Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco, aimed specifically at community college students before they transfer to a four-year institution to pursue a STEM bachelor's degree. Each intern is paired with lab mentors, learns bench techniques across the summer, and takes a professional development course on scientific communication and career paths; the programme closes with a poster session. Established in 2014 and funded through the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the NIH. Gladstone also runs a separate Gladstone Summer Scholars track for rising high school seniors.