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Research Support Services
The Office for Research Support Services promotes and
supports academic and administrative research efforts
and administers pre-award activities involving all grants
(research, education, training, public service) within
the various departments and programs at Rockford. Pre-award
grant activity includes assisting students in identifying
research interests and matching them with interested
faculty, searching a variety of publications, directories,
and web sites related to health care and health sciences
for new funding opportunities, providing application
forms and interpreting the standards and regulations
of the funding agencies; reviewing and editing all application
forms and budgets relative to funding agency and University
policies. The office provides in-depth consultation
for those first-time investigators who need help in
putting together a grant application.
Rockford Library of Health Sciences
The UIC Library of the Health Sciences at Rockford
(Crawford Medical Library) offers numerous services
and resources to faculty, staff and students physically
located at the College of Medicine at Rockford as well
as those located in affiliated off-site clinics, hospitals
and at home.
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Library staff offer assistance in locating books and journals
in the Library and beyond its walls and help users identify
databases relevant to their research, teaching, and/or class
assignments. Reference staff provide one-on-one assistance
in searching library databases and provide in-depth consultation
regarding research. LHS-Rockford web pages link to the UIC
Library of the Health Sciences Electronic Gateway web site
which links to health sciences databases, electronic books
and journals, resources for clinicians and consumers, online
forms to request services, and more. Visit
the Library Site
Health Systems Research
Health Systems Research, a census affiliate, serves faculty,
students, health care providers, human services agencies and
other community organizations throughout Illinois with demographic,
health, social and economic data. Click
for more info on Health Systems Research
Basic Biomedical Research
Areas of expertise include central nervous system and cardiovascular
pharmacology, theoretical biophysics, chemical carcinogenesis
and gene expression, virology, parasitology, electrophysiology
and cell biology and signal transduction. Research is funded
through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other
national agencies, private foundations, state agencies, international
organizations and private industry. Click
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