Genentech and Genentech Foundation are inviting proposals for the 2022 Health Equity and Diversity in STEM Innovation Fund, a biennial, competitive process focused on funding organizations and initiatives led by...
The Michelson Prizes: Next Generation Grants are $150,000 research grants given annually to support promising researchers who are applying disruptive concepts and inventive processes to advance human immunology, vaccine discovery...
At University of Utah Health, 21% of faculty are tenured. Of the tenured faculty, 3.6% identify as being part of an underrepresented in medicine race/ethnicity group.
A recent study demonstrates how a training program for Black parents of children with autism called Spectrum of Care helped fill unmet needs. The program was developed by the Black...
Jacob George, PhD, an assistant professor in physical medicine and rehabilitation, is helping develop a motorized limb covered with a silicone “skin” called the LUKE arm.
The Anna Lalor Burdick Program seeks to empower young women through education about healthy reproduction in order to broaden and enhance their options in life. The program focuses particularly on...
The Utah CTSI STARS TL1 Training Program welcomes applications for a PhD post-doctoral position. The Utah CTSI STARS Program provides pre- and post-doctoral training opportunities in translational research across 3...
Through a collaboration with ARUP, the Center for Genomic Medicine has funding available to support sequencing projects through ARUP’s new next-generation sequencing facility. For this RFA, we invite both research-...
There are multiple opportunities that include a programs to develop biomarkers that can support therapeutic development for priority pathways in Parkinson's Disease, or that seek to build conclusive evidence to...
The Craig H. Neilsen Foundation is pleased to announce its 2023 Spinal Cord Injury Research on the Translational Spectrum (SCIRTS) funding opportunity. Eligible organizations interested in mechanistic, preclinical, translational, and/or...
University of Utah Health scientists are launching a pair of initiatives designed to increase COVID-19 testing and vaccination among rural and underserved populations.
One graduate student in the department of biochemistry, and two in the department of neurobiology, have been awarded the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP) for 2022.
A new study suggests that people with epilepsy associated with head injuries, especially the type not well controlled by medication, are more likely to have other health conditions like depression...
Researchers have identified a family of proteins that is significantly elevated in the saliva of patients hospitalized with COVID-19. The proteins, known as ephrin ligands, could potentially serve as a...
“I” was the letter of the day, as Taylor Randall was inaugurated as the 17th president of the University of Utah. His speech was built around three I’s: imagine, innovate...
We are delighted to announce that Richard Dorsky, PhD, Professor of Neurobiology, has accepted the position of School of Medicine Associate Dean for Research Space. He is taking over the...
An editorial in the Annals of Family Medicine outlines five recommendations to improve health disparities by applying an equity framework to primary care medicine.
The study, one of 10 space biology research projects selected by NASA in 2021, could help amplify scientific understanding of how human bodies adapt to space,
The last two entering classes at the Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine at the University of Utah are the most diverse in the school's history. A scholarship program for...
Beginning April 25th, 2022, U of U Health will be implementing Oncore and Epic Research. Together, the OnCore Clinical Trials Management System (CTMS) along with a collection of additional modules...
Robin Shaw, MD, PhD, director of the Nora Eccles Harrison Cardiovascular Research and Training Institute (CVRTI) is leading “cell to bedside” approach is designed to develop novel diagnostics and therapeutics...
