Office of Research, Health Sciences (OORHS) Mission

The OORHS offers support services, including assistance in developing competitive grant applications, for investigators throughout the Graduate School of Public Health, the School of Dental Medicine, the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, the School of Medicine, the School of Nursing, and the School of Pharmacy. To learn more about how the Office of Research, Health Sciences can help you and your research program, please review details regarding our available support services.

In The Spotlight

Eva M. Szigethy, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, School of Medicine will deliver the next lecture titled Treating Cytokine-Mediated Depression in Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Evidence for Brain-Body Interactions.

Location and Time — November 13, 2009 12:00p.m.-1:00 p.m. in Auditorium 6 of Scaife Hall. (show location map). The Lecture will be followed by an informal reception.

For information on future lectures in this series, please visit our website or call the Office of Academic Affairs at 412-383-7382.

Gregory J. Hannon, PhD
Professor in the Watson School of Biomedical Sciences, Program Chair for Bioinformatics/Genetics, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory will deliver the next lecture on "Conserved Roles of Small RNAs in Genome Defense".

Location and Time — November 17, 2009 12:00-1:00 p.m. in Auditorium 6 of Scaife Hall. (show location map). The Lecture will be followed by an informal reception.

For information on future lectures in this series, please visit our website or call the Office of Academic Affairs at 412-383-7382.

Highlighted Funding Opportunities

External Opportunities

Important NIH Notices

Oct 26, 2009 — Announcing the Transition of Institutional Training and Institutional Career Development Programs to Electronic Submission for due dates on/after January 25, 2010 (NOT-OD-10-008) (New)
Sept. 16, 2009 — Restructured Application Forms and Instructions for Submissions for FY2011 Funding (NOT-OD-09-149)
July 15, 2009 — Status of Applications and Awards under the New NIH Guidelines for Human Stem Cell Research (NOT-OD-09-123)
July 7, 2009 — NIH Guidelines for Human Stem Cell Research
Aug 12, 2009 — Reminder: Investigators Should Update their eRA Commons Profiles to Include Degree and Residency Completion Dates (NOT-OD-09-134)
Dec 2, 2008 — New NIH Grant Scoring Procedures (NOT-OD-09-024)
Dec 2, 2008 — New NIH Review Criteria (NOT-OD-025)
Oct 9, 2008 — New NIH Policy on Resubmission (Amended) Applications
Oct 31, 2008 — NIH Revised New and Early Stage Investigator Policies

Calendar of Events & Medical News

Quick Links

To All Health Sciences Investigators:

The Office of Research, Health Sciences encourages you to use the Virtual Handbook for Biomedical Researchers Using Animal Subjects. Available chapters provide information needed by investigators to conduct animal-based research at the University of Pittsburgh. Important links are also provided that assist investigators in the establishment and maintenance of robust research programs.