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The Office of Research, Health Sciences (OORHS) strives to help faculty in the six Schools of the Health Sciences achieve success in their research program. We assist faculty in developing rigorous and compelling research proposals through iterative critical editorial and scientific review of ever-improving drafts. We also guide faculty to funding opportunities and...

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Application Repository To Help University Researchers (ARTHUR)

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The ARTHUR database comprises successfully funded applications, written by faculty members at the University of Pittsburgh, that comply with the current NIH format. Examples of grant applications funded by non-NIH award mechanisms (e.g., DOD/CDMRP, PCORI, and NSF) are also available. 

 

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“I have submitted three R01 grant applications, two of them will be reviewed soon and the third one will be early next year. For each of them, I got valuable help from [OORHS] regarding scientific reasoning, grantsmanship, and even English editing. [OOHRS] often went out of the way to look up the literature to find papers related to my grant applications.”

 “I would like to let you know my deepest gratitude to all your help on my grants. I learned a lot from you.” 

"Thank you so much for your time and support on this proposal. It can’t be done without you!" 

“Many thanks for your expert assistance with our … application. Your insight and help with our previous version were instrumental in helping us to address and overcome the hurdles of reviewer comments.” 

“And the good news... I got my resubmission score. Impact 18, 3.0 percentile.   Thank you for the feedback!”