Skin Research Center Enrichment Programs
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Education and training to bolster cutaneous research

The UM-SBDRC Enrichment Programs will provide outreach, training, education, and funding to support the centers goals to markedly enhance and enrich effectiveness of ongoing basic and translational research in cutaneous biology and diseases.

Mentorship Program

  • Promote career success for UM-SBDRC members
  • Support investigators and trainees at all stages of their careers
  • Encourage diversity in terms of gender, ethnicity, and race

Pilot & Feasibility Program

  • Support early investigators
  • Promote interdisciplinary engagement
  • Promote collaborations with groups outside the field of dermatology

Visiting Scholar Program 
and Annual Symposium

  • Promote opportunities for scientific exchange
  • Promote new ideas and innovative thinking in our members and attendees
  • Accomplished and diverse speakers engaged in cutting-edge work in various research fields will be invited to speak and present their work

Travel Awards Program

  • Support research trainee attendance at the Society for Investigative Dermatology annual meeting (for trainees working with UM-SBDRC Members)
  • Provide exposure to a breadth of research in cutaneous biology and disease
Research Acknowledgement

It is extremely important that our grant is cited in all publications resulting from the use of UM-SBDRC services and funding. Our productivity and effectiveness as a center are measured in part by the citation of the grant in published work. Please use the following acknowledgement in your publications:

This work utilized Core Services and Pilot or Feasibility project funding supported by grant UM-SBDRC 1P30AR075043 of NIH/NIAMS to the University of Michigan