Office of Research, Health Sciences (OORHS) Mission

The OORHS offers support services for health sciences investigators to foster new and ongoing research 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 our available services.

W. Gordon Frankle, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Radiology, School of Medicine, will deliver the next lecture on Neuroreceptor Imaging in Schizophrenia.

Location and Time — Friday, June 6, 2008 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.

Rudolf Jaenisch, MD
Professor of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, will deliver the next lecture on Stem Cells, Pluripotency, and Nuclear Reprogramming.

Location and Time — Friday, May 21, 2008 1:00-2:00 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.

1. Internal Opportunites
   • (Jun 2) Career Education & Enhancement for Health Care Research Diversity
   • (Jun 2)  UPCI Lung SPORE Funding Opportunity: Inflammation & Lung Cancer
   • (Jun 2) UPCI Lung SPORE Funding Opportunity: Career Development
   • (Aug 15) Basic to Clinical Collaborative Research Pilot Program (BaCCoR)
   • (Apr 1, annually) EXcellence in Progressive, Leading-edge, Original REseaRch (EXPLORER) Award
   • (ongoing) Pilot Imaging Program (MR, PET)
   • (Sept 1) Health Sciences Bridge Funding Program
   • (Jan, annually) Competitive Medical Research Fund (CMRF)

1. External Opportunites
   • (Apr 30/ Jun 10) HHMI Early Career Scientist Competition
   • (May 13) NIH Supplemental Funding Requests (multiple opportunities)
   • (May 31) Comment on NIH Public Access Policy
   • (Jun 1) NIH Supplements for Making Knockout Mice
   • (Jun 2) Request for Information: Ideas requested for Common Fund/Roadmap Trans NIH Strategic Initiatives
   • (Jul 7, Nov 3) NIH Supplements for Neuroimaging Informatics Software Enhancement
   • NIH Supplements for Protein Functional Studies
   • All Current NIH Opportunities
   • All Current NSF Opportunities
   • DoD Medical Research Programs

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