The Senior Vice President for Health Sciences Research Unit serves the University of Utah health sciences community in pursuit of discovery and innovation that advances medicine and science. The office seeks to strengthen all departments and colleges within the University of Utah health sciences by assisting in:
The research unit’s major functions include institutional goal setting, oversight of graduate programs, the summer medical research program, training grant proposal support, financial modeling, pre-award support for basic science departments, research space management, new program development, and execution of the Health Sciences’ Research Strategic Initiatives.
For anyone who has seen the recently featured presentation note about the work emerging from the Moran Eye Center's Marclab about the pathoconnectome, check out some additional reading material here.... Read More
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The University of Utah awards select faculty members on an annual basis for exceptional work in teaching, research mentorship and service. As the U recently announced the 2022 awardees, we want to call particular attention faculty members who are part of our health sciences research community.... Read More
Select...This program was developed at the recommendation of the Research Training & Career Development Committee (RTRAC) and with input from the Basic Science Working Group, Clinical-department Research Working Group, Health Sciences Deans, and the Vice Dean for Finance. It follows the structure of incentive programs at peer institutions and is intended to maximize success in research education for students, faculty, and departments/colleges by incentivizing the submission of competitive individual fellowship proposals.... Read More
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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 people of color. The fund seeks proposals to support the major priorities of health equity and workforce diversity through three main aims.... Read More
Select...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, and immunotherapy research for major global diseases.... Read More
Select...Pilot & Feasibility Awards through an ongoing collaborative program with the University of Utah starting 12/1/22, pending competitive renewal of NIDDK funding in 2022. The contact Principal Investigator of this program at University of Utah is Dr. Scott Summers. The goal of this program is to develop preliminary data leading to the submission of new applications for independent (NIH, JDRF, or ADA) research grants.... Read More
Select...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 clinical spinal cord injury (SCI) research are encouraged to apply.... Read More
Select...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- and clinically-focused applications that have strong potential to lead to a genetic discovery or clinical diagnosis, respectively.... Read More
Select...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 spheres of emphasis (Discovery, Demonstration, and Dissemination) that together define our STARS, or Spheres of Translation Across the Research Spectrum.... Read More
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Will Dere
Associate Vice President for Research
