4 students from the Alfaisal University College of Medicine, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia recently completed a two-month program offered by St. Boniface Hospital Research entitled “Advanced Training in Basic and Clinical Research Topics in Medicine”. The students, Motaz Mohammad Fuad Alyafi, Omar Mohamed Al-sekily, Ahmed Naseer Warraich and Khaled Juan Zaza participated in the program which offers advanced training in basic science research topics in medicine such as cell isolation, functional assessment, molecular techniques of analysis and manipulation as well as sessions on the conduct of clinical research trials, ethics and intellectual property management. The students received their Diploma on August 19th 2011.