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UPMC Hillman Training Grants

National Institutes of Health (NIH) Training Grants are also referred to as Institutional National Research Service Awards (NRSAs), or "T32" or "T35" grants. These grants support pre-doctoral, post-doctoral, and short-term research training experiences in specified areas of biomedical, behavioral, and clinical research.

Autoimmunity and Immunopathology Training Program

  • PI: Mark Shlomchik
  • Funding Agency: NIAID
  • Trainees: Pre-docs and Post-docs

Building an Interprofessional and Diverse Workforce in Substance Use and Pain

  • PI: Jessica Merlin
  • Funding Agency: NIDA
  • Trainees: Post-docs

Cancer Immunology Training Program

  • PIs: Dario Vignali, Robert Binder
  • Funding Agency: NCI
  • Trainees: Pre-docs and Post-docs

Cardiothoracic Surgery Research Training Program

  • PIs: James Luketich, Julie Phillippi, David Vorp
  • Funding Agency: NHLBI
  • Trainees: Post-docs

Cellular Approaches to Tissue Engineering and Regeneration

  • PIs: Andrew Duncan, Satdarshan (Paul) Monga
  • Funding Agency: NIBIB
  • Trainees: Pre-docs

Clinical Research Training for Psychologists

  • PI: Michele Levine
  • Funding Agency: NIMH
  • Trainees: Post-docs

Interdisciplinary Training in Transplantation Biology

  • PI: Angus Thomson
  • Funding Agency: NIAID
  • Trainees: Pre-docs and Post-docs

Institutional Program in Cell and Molecular Biology

  • PIs: Jeffrey Brodsky, Sandra Murray, John Woolford
  • Funding Agency: NIGMS
  • Trainees: Pre-docs

Medical Scientist Training Program

  • PIs: Russell Schwartz, Richard Steinman
  • Funding Agency: NIGMS
  • Trainees: Pre-docs

Pittsburgh Biomedical Informatics Training Program (T15)

  • PI: Harry Hochheiser
  • Funding Agency: NLM
  • Trainees: Pre-docs and Post-docs

Postdoctoral Research Training in Biotherapy of Cancer

  • PI: Udai Kammula
  • Funding Agency: NCI
  • Trainees: Post-docs

Postdoctoral Research Training in Head and Neck Oncology

  • PI: Jose Zevallos
  • Funding Agency: NCI
  • Trainees: Post-docs

Predoctoral Training in Pharmacological Sciences

  • PI: Tija Jacob
  • Funding Agency: NIGMS
  • Trainees: Pre-docs

Research Training Program for Pediatric Subspecialty Fellows

  • PI: Terence Dermody
  • Funding Agency: NICHD
  • Trainees: Post-docs

Targeting Research and Academic Training of Nurses in Genomics

  • PI: Yvette Conley
  • Funding Agency: NINR
  • Trainees: Pre-docs and Post-docs

Technology Research in Chronic and Critical Illness

  • PI: Young Ji Lee
  • Funding Agency: NINR
  • Trainees: Pre-docs and Post-docs

Training in Renal, GI, Endocrine and Epithelial Biology (T35)

  • PIs: Donald DeFranco, Michael Jurczak, Thomas Kleyman
  • Funding Agency: NIDDK
  • Trainees: Pre-docs

Translational Research Training in Cancer Etiology and Prevention

  • PIs: Kathryn Schmitz, Jian-Min Yuan
  • Funding Agency: NCI
  • Trainees: Post-docs

Viral Persistence and Pathogenesis

  • PI: Neal DeLuca
  • Funding Agency: NIAID
  • Trainees: Pre-docs and Post-docs

For additional details, including the faculty mentors for each training program, please see the University of Pittsburgh Training Grant Programs website.