Fast Facts

• Our trainees are eligible for research funding from NIH T-32 grants in hematology and oncology.
• Our 90 member Pediatrics Department faculty ranks 2nd nationally in total NIH funding dollars among publicly supported medical schools.
• Our UI Carver College of Medicine and the College of Public Health rank 11th in NIH external funding among public universities, with $149 million in 2003.
• 90 percent of our fellows have accepted academic faculty positions.

Providing outstanding research training is a major objective of our program. Our department is among the top departments of pediatrics in the U.S. in terms of NIH research funding, and our College of Medicine has strong basic science departments. We also have an NIH-funded Clinical Research Center with a significant hematology/oncology component.

Although we have excellent opportunities for research training and experience within the Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, we also encourage our fellows to explore training opportunities in research laboratories elsewhere in the Department of Pediatrics or in other clinical and basic science departments within the Colleges of Medicine and Public Heath.

In recent years, our fellows have also trained in laboratories in the Departments of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Biophysics and Physiology, and Internal Medicine in addition to the Department of Pediatrics.

An optional fourth year is available for fellows who desire additional research training. Recognizing that the process of achieving independence as a researcher is often incomplete at the end of training, we help our trainees find post-fellowship positions that will best allow them to mature as physician-scientists.

In recent years, one of our hematology/oncology trainees has been the recipient of the National Hemophilia Foundation Training Award.