Prestigious NIH Award for Psychiatrist at Children’s Hospital Of Pittsburgh

September 20, 2007 – 10:41 pm | posted in Pharma Industry

Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC psychiatrist Eva M. Szigethy, MD, PhD, is among a select group of researchers who have been chosen by the director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to receive a prestigious New Innovator Award.

NIH director Elias A. Zerhouni, MD, has announced that 41 researchers from across the country — many of them in the early stages of their careers, including Dr. Szigethy — will receive five-year grants totaling more than $105 million. Dr. Szigethy is one of only 29 recipients of the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award (selected from more than 2,100 applicants), and there are 12 recipients of the Pioneer Award.

Pioneer Awards support scientists at any career stage, while New Innovator Awards are reserved for new investigators who have not received an NIH regular research or similar grant. This is the first group of New Innovator Awards and the fourth group of Pioneer Awards. Both programs are part of an NIH Roadmap for Medical Research initiative that tests new approaches to supporting novel research.

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