Pitt Nursing is known for its many and diverse research programs, supported by grants from very prestigious funding agencies and organizations.
Funding Agency |
Principal Investigator |
Grant Title |
Federal Grant Type |
Pitt CRDF |
Salah Al-Zaiti |
Non-St ElevationMyocardial Ischemia: The Role of Cell Survival Genes |
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NHLBI |
Salah Al-Zaiti |
Electrocardiographic Detection of Non-ST Elevation Myocardial Events for Accelerated Classification of Chest Pain Encounters (ECG-SMART) |
R01 |
NIH/NCI |
Catherine Bender |
Influence of Exercise on Neurocognitive Function in Breast Cancer |
R01 |
School of Medicine |
Catherine Bender |
P01 Pilot Program |
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NIH/NHLBI |
Lora Burke |
Promoting Lifestyle Change via Tailored mHealth to Improve Health |
R01 |
Pitt CRDF |
Judy Callan |
Reducing Mental Health Care Barriers and Stigma for Veterans of the OEF/OIF Engagements Using Smartphone Technology |
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ONS | Grace Campbell | Sensor-Based Assessment: Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy-Related Balance/Gait Impairments | |
NIH/NINR | Denise Charron- Prochownik | Supporting AI/AN Mothers and Daughters in Reducing Gestational Diabetes Risk | R01 |
NIH/NIDDK | Eileen Chasens | The Effect of OSA on Diabetes Self-Management and Glycemic Control | R01 |
NIH/NINR | Eileen Chasens | Self-Management, Insomnia, and Glucose Control in Adults with Diabetes | K24 |
UCSF |
Yvette Conley |
Biomarker and Phenotypic Risk Factors for Breast Cancer Lymphedema |
R01 |
NIH/NINR |
Yvette Conley |
Targeted Research and Academic Training of Nurses in Genomics |
T32 |
NIH/NCI |
Yvette Conley (co-PI: C. Bender) |
Epigenomics of Neurocognitive Function in Breast Cancer |
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Pitt CRDF | Beth Crago | The Effect of IGF-1 Gene Variants on Functional Outcomes After aSAH | |
NIH/NINR | Beth Crago | Sex Steroids and IGF1 in the CNS Following aSAH and Their Relationship to Patient Outcomes | R01 |
NIH/NINR | Annette Devito Dabbs | Technology: Research in Chronic and Critical Illness | T32 |
NIH/NIDDK | Annette Devito Dabbs | TAKE-IT TOO: Teen Adherence in Kidney Transplant Improving Tracking to Optimize Outcomes | R01 |
NIH/NINR | Annette Devito Dabbs | Lung Transplant Go (LTGO): Improving Self-Management of Exercise After Lung Transplantation | R01 |
NIH/NICHD | Cynthia Danford | Self-Regulating Lifestyle Behaviors to Decrease Obesity Risk with Parent-Child Dyads Using Event History Calendars | R21 |
NIH/NINR | Jill Demirici | Preventing Perceived Insufficient Milk: Development of a Text Message-Based Intervention | R00 |
Pitt CRDF | Jill Demirici | Feasibility of an Antenatal Milk Expression Protocol Among Mothers of Surgical Infants and Preliminary Macronutrient Analysis of Antenatal Milk | |
Kuehn | Jill Demirici | Effect of Antenatal Milk Expression on Breastfeeding Outcomes Among Overweight and Obese Women: A Feasibility Study | |
Robert Wood Johnson Fnd. | Heidi Donovan | Preparation of the Next Generation of Nurse Scientists | |
Nazarbayev University | Jacqueline Dunbar-Jacob | Partnership to Develop the Nazarbayev University School of Medicine Nursing Program (NUSON) | |
NIH/NICHD | Sandra Founds | Relating Pregnancy Phenotype with Chromosome Copy Number in Placentation Cells from the Endocervix | R21 |
CRE Pilot | Hayley Germack | Effects of Individual Hospital and Community-Level Factors on Medical-Surgical Revisits for People with Serious Mental Illness | |
NIH/NINR | Marilyn Hravnak | Predicting Patient Instability Noninvasively for Nursing Care-Two (PPINNC-2) | R01 |
Jonas Center | Marilyn Hravnak | Jonas Scholars Program 2018-2020 | |
NIH/NHLBI | Marilyn Hravnak | Organizational Strategies for Improving Evidence-uptake in Intensive Care | R35 |
CRE Pilot | Christopher Imes | The Feasibility of Using Saliva to Examine Gene Expression Changes in Shift Workers | |
Pitt CRDF | Jacob Kariuki | Development of a Culturally Relevant Web-Based Intervention to Promote Physical Activity Among African Americans at High Risk for Cardiovascular Disease | |
NIH /NHLBI | Jacob Kariuki | Diversity Supplement: Promoting Lifestyle Change via Tailored mHealth to Improve Health | R01 |
NARSAD | Heeyoung Lee | Linking Physical Activity, Brain-Deprived Neurotrophic Factor, and Cognition in People with Schizophrenia | |
SON - CRE Pilot | Young Ji Lee | Development of Computational Model to Identify Linguistic Markers of Symptom Management Strategies | |
ANF | Dan Li | Pressure Injury Image Evaluation with Computer Vision Technology | |
SON-Kuehn | Dan Li | Understanding of Wound Characteristics for Non-Healing Pressure Injuries | |
HRSA | Jennifer Lingler | Geriatric Workforce Enhancement Program | U1 |
NIH/NIA | Jennifer Lingler | Return of Amyloid Imaging Research Results in MCI | R01 |
NIH/NIA | Jennifer Lingler | Recruitment Innovations to Enhance Diversity in AD Research | R01 |
NIH/NHLBI | Faith Luyster | Improving Asthma Control Using Internet-Based Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment for Insomnia | R01 |
VA Pittsburgh | Faith Luyster | IPA | |
Columbia University | Grant Martsolf | Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Chronic Disease Outcomes and Nurse Practitioner Practice | R01 |
Columbia University | Grant Martsolf | Social Networks in Medical Homes and Impact on Patient Care and Outcomes | R01 |
CDC | Ann Mitchell | FASD: Prevention Through Partnerships | U84 |
SAMHSA | Ann Mitchell | PCSS PITT - Provider's Clinical Support System | |
AABC | Nancy Niemczyk | Associations Between Length of Second Stage Labor and Maternal and Newborn Outcomes in Freestanding Birth Centers | |
CRE Pilot | Nancy Niemczyk | Group-Based Trajectory Analysis to Describe the First Stage of Labor - A Pilot Study | |
Pitt Innovation Institute | John O'Donnell | BodyExplorer: Autonomous Simulated Patient | |
HRSA | John O'Donnell | Nurse Anesthetist Traineeships | A22 |
Infinite Hero Fnd | Kathy Puskar | Teaching Kids to Cope - Military | |
Genentech | Margaret Rosenzweig | The Symptom Experience, Management, and Outcomes According to Race | |
NIH/NCI | Margaret Rosenzweig | Advanced Practice Provider Oncology Web Educational Resources (AP POWER) | R25 |
MWRIF | Margaret Rosenzweig | Metastatic Breast Cancer Program of Care: Support, Education, and Advocacy (SEA) | |
NIH/NIMHD | Margaret Rosenzweig | The Symptom Experience, Management, and Outcomes According to Race and Social Determinants of Health (SEMOARS) During Breast Cancer Chemotherapy | R01 |
Pitt Seed Fund | Margaret Rosenzweig |
ACBC - the Allegheny County Breast Consortium: Developing Synergy for Breast Cancer Control | |
NIH/NICHD | Mandy Schmella | DNA Methylomic Profiling of Preeclampsia Across Pregnancy | R21 |
HRSA | Richard Schulz | Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program | U21 |
Cambia Health Fnd: Sojourns Scholar Leadership Program | Jennifer Seaman | Ensuring Timely Interdisciplinary Family Meetings in the ICU: Development and Testing of a Nurse-Led Intervention | |
American Thoracic Society | Jennifer Seaman | Development of a Nurse-Led Intervention to Ensure Timely Interdisciplinary Family Meetings in ICU | |
MWRIF | Susan Sereika | Electronic Reported Symptom Assessment in a Survivorship Clinic | |
STTI | Teresa Thomas | Stronger Together: Promoting Patient Self-Advocacy and Nurse Empowerment in the Clinical Encounter | |
Pitt CRDF | Teresa Thomas | Defining How Men with Advanced Cancer Advocate for Their Needs: A mixed Method Exploratory Study | |
ACS | Teresa Thomas | Strong Together: Piloting a Serious Game to Improve Self-Advocacy Among Women with Advanced Cancer | |
SON - CRE Pilot | Teresa Thomas | Piloting a Serious Game to Improve Self-Advocacy Among Women with Advanced Cancer | |
NIH/NINR | Susan Wesmiller | Genomic Underpinnings for Breast Cancer Treatment Induced Nausea and Vomiting | R01 |
SON - Kuehn | Susan Wesmiller | Exploring the Effect of Nausea and Vomiting on Symptom Self-Management in Women During Treatment for Breast Cancer | |
NIH/NIAMS | Cecelia Yates | Genomics of Variability in Progression and Severity of Skin Fibrosis | R01 |
PITT Chancellor's Innovation Commercialization Fund | Cecelia Yates | Fibrokine: An Inhalation Anti-fibrotic Drug Therapy for IPF | |
Cornell University | Cecelia Yates | Extended Release of Bioactive Factors to Treat Refractory Wounds | R01 |