Welcome to Penn State Research Development
The mission of Research Development is to further develop and strengthen sponsored research at the Penn State College of Medicine in the basic biomedical and clinical sciences. The primary focus of these efforts is the acquisition of new knowledge that will advance the promotion of better health and the prevention, treatment and cure of disease.
We pursue our mission in part through the identification and distribution of relevant funding opportunity announcements. In addition, we work to improve the competitiveness of proposals from the College of Medicine and to encourage and facilitate collaborative interdisciplinary research among basic scientists and clinical investigators at Penn State Hershey and investigators at other Penn State campuses.
Research Development also administers several internal grant programs that support bridge, pilot and feasibility studies conducted by College of Medicine investigators. In collaboration with the Office of the Senior Vice President for Research, we coordinate the nomination process for limited submission applications from the College of Medicine. We pursue these and related activities that strengthen the College of Medicine's research programs in partnership with other units of the Research Mission and departments throughout Hershey Medical Center and Penn State University.
- Bariatric surgery restores nerve cell properties altered by diet Understanding how gastric bypass surgery changes the properties of nerve cells that help regulate the digestive system could lead to new treatments that produce the same results without surgery, according to Penn State College of Medicine scientists, who have shown how surgery restores some properties of nerve cells that tell people their stomachs are full.More...
- Penn State College of Medicine awarded $1 million AMA grant Penn State College of Medicine has been awarded a prestigious $1 million grant by the American Medical Association as part of a program aimed at transforming the way the physicians of tomorrow are trained.More...
- Penn State Hershey entrepreneurs win first 'startup boot camp' awards Dr. Joseph Sassani, ophthalmologist at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and professor of ophthalmology and pathology at Penn State College of Medicine, is the winner of The TechCelerator@Hershey’s inaugural Eight Week Boot Camp program for promising entrepreneurs.More...
- Collaborative Hershey and University Park medical service trip This spring brought the first collaborative spring break service trip for University Park undergraduates and Hershey medical students and physicians.More...
