Dr. Subhash Pandey and his team received an award for a P50 Center Grant from the NIH

Dr. Subhash Pandey, and his interdisciplinary team which includes faculty from the departments of psychiatry, physiology and biophysics from the COM, the UIC research resource center facilities (RRC Bioinformatics) and the departments of biological sciences and psychology (UIC-college of liberal arts and science), and the Roy J Carver Biotechnology Center-UIUC, received an award for a P50 Center Grant from the NIH. This is one of the few Center grants funded by the NIH at UIC and brings a lot of recognition and prestige to the UIC.

Specialized Center (P50)

To support any part of the full range of research and development from very basic to clinical; may involve ancillary supportive activities such as protracted patient care necessary to the primary research or R&D effort. The spectrum of activities comprises a multidisciplinary attack on a specific disease entity or biomedical problem area. These grants differ from program project grants in that they are usually developed in response to an announcement of the programmatic needs of an Institute or Division and subsequently receive continuous attention from its staff. Centers may also serve as regional or national resources for special research purposes.