FIRST Awards

Facilitating Interdisciplinary Research by Scientific Teams

This award seeks to develop and support outstanding team science with the goal of obtaining large-scale NIH grants (U01, U19, P01, P30, and P50 grants) for teams of multiple investigators at UPMC Children’s Hospital and beyond.

Click here for the RFA for 2024.

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Prior Winners

2025 - Jacqueline Ho, MD, MSc and Sunny Sims-Lucas, PhD, "Pittsburgh Pediatric Center of Excellence in Nephrology"
2024 - Thomas Hooven, MD, "Cross-generational bacterial- and immune-mediated determinants of pregnancy and newborn health"