Perelman School of Medicine Events Calendar

Presentations by:

Lorena Loarca, PhD (Wells Lab)

Maryna Perepelyuk, PhD (Wells Lab)

Assistant Professor

Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

 “Activating ubiquitin complexes to turn the immune system off"
Speakers: Paula Oliver and Natalia Ramos-Hernandez

Class of '62

The Center for Public Health Initiatives (CPHI) and the Community Engagement and Research (CEAR) core of the CTSA at the University of Pennsylvania are collaborating on a pilot grant program to fund research with public and community health relevance. The full text for this pilot grant program can be found online at http://www.med.upenn.edu/cphi/2013CallforProposals.shtml

Deadline: 

April 5^th, 2013 by 5:00pm                                      

Purpose: 

This call for proposals is open to faculty with significant public and community health-related experience at Penn and is intended to:

·         Foster interdisciplinary research in public health at Penn that will have meaningful results at the community level.

·         Assist in garnering external support for large-scale studies in the field of public health.

·         Encourage additional faculty and staff at Penn to become involved in public health research.

·         Identify innovative methodologies in the field of public health that have the potential of informing local, state and national policy and programming

Eligibility:

The PI for the grant must be a Penn faculty member.  More than one grant can be submitted by any one team and/or PI. If you want your application to be considered by the CPHI, one of the researchers on the team must be a CPHI Senior Fellow or Associate.

For additional selection and eligibility criteria see the full CFP text at http://www.med.upenn.edu/cphi/2013CallforProposals.shtml

Notification and Project Period:

Awards will be announced by May 24^th, 2013.  All project funds must be expended by June 30, 2014.

Total Award:

Most grants awarded will be in the range of $2,000 to $20,000

Questions:

Contact Wendy Voet, CPHI Managing Director, at wvoet@exchange.upenn.edu or

Erica Cavanaugh, CHBR Research Project Manager, at ecav@upenn.edu.