Goal 1: Grow extramural research funding, with renewed emphasis on quality proposals and collaborative projects, to create a pathway to one or more new center grants
Key Initiatives:
- Improve funding rate for federal proposal submissions
- Identify 2 potential center grant themes, with partners/teams, agencies/mechanisms
- Increase the number of investigators with R01 or equivalent funding (as PI or MPI)
Goal 2: Increase involvement of career-line faculty in scholarship and research
Key Initiatives:
- Develop research and scholarship skills in career-line faculty
- Increase number of career-line faculty with at least one peer-reviewed publication
- Increase number of career-line faculty on funded research projects
Goal 3: Develop and implement effective dissemination and recognition strategies for DFPM research and researchers
Key Initiatives:
- Increase public research profile within the University of Utah and nationally by developing a sustainable, ongoing research dissemination strategy
- Increase public research profile within the University of Utah and nationally by nominating faculty for award/honor opportunities and placing faculty on professional panels/study sections
The research strategy of the Senior Vice President for Health Sciences Research Unit can be viewed here.