200 Meyran Avenue, 3rd Floor

412-586-9632

http://www.icre.pitt.edu/phd/index.html

ctsphd@pitt.edu

This rigorous and advanced training program aims to help train clinical and translational investigators to re-engineer the ways in which basic scientific discoveries are translated to improve health and health care. Designed primarily for clinicians, the program trains students to enhance their capabilities as scientists and to conduct high-quality, independent clinical and translational research. Individuals must demonstrate a high level of interest and potential for pursuing innovative clinical and translational research and demonstrate long-term goals of entering a research career. The program consists of a tightly integrated core curriculum and has a deep diverse curriculum that draws on biostatistics, clinical research methods, and laboratory and population-based sciences and coursework in research design and development. The program is highly multidisciplinary in that its faculty and students are expected to span not only the departments, but also the Schools of the Health Sciences. It focuses on the conduct of clinical and translational research and requires the planning, execution, and completion of an independent research project by each PhD candidate.