<p>Did anyone hear about OUHSC? That is, University of Oklahoma Health Science Center.
I just got one interview from a PI there.
I applied to neuroscienc.
Thank you guys.</p>
<p>Do you have any other options?</p>
<p>yep. I applied to several ones.
But this is the first to give an interview.</p>
<p>I took a look at OUHSC and upon first inspection I found that there are 12 faculty with primary appointments in their neuroscience program but none of them are publishing in very high tier journals. They receive about 60 million a year from the NIH for research operations (for comparison, most other large public health science centers garner 200 to 300 million a year in the same funds.) They have an umbrella structure for their first year program, which has become increasingly common. They have a list of where their alumni, dating back to 2003, have gone. One is an assistant professor at Texas State University and others are in Research Associate, Post Doc or Adjunct positions at second tier or worse institutions. They have about 600 individuals in their graduate school (whatever that means) but that may include nursing graduate students, medical students, post docs or whatever else, they didn’t specify. There seems to be a health science center in both Oklahoma city as well as Tulsa, all the info I found was for their Oklahoma City campus.</p>
<p>Frankly, I would be very hesitant to have my graduate school experience there. I don’t know anything about your specific research interests, career goals or geographic preferences, but it certainly wouldn’t be a good match for me on any of those things. They appear to have an infrastructure in place including integrated coursework, a decent number of labs for rotations/thesis, stipend, health insurance, grad student council etc, so you certainly wouldn’t be out in the wilderness. If this is your only option, you might want to consider being a lab tech for a year or two to make yourself more competitive for other graduate schools. On the other hand, if you have some sort of ties to OK city or a special research connection with one of the faculty, it might work out great for you.</p>
<p>Best of luck in whatever you decide.</p>
<p>Belevitt… How do you know how much a program/lab receives from NIH for research funding?</p>
<p>Wow, thank you so much for everything you did for me.
I hope to dedicate myself to neurodegenerative diseases. But it seems there is no match in OUHSC… at least in that dept. The PI, the guy who’s gotta interview me is a Chinese. His main field is neuronal signal transduction. And I noticed his publications, not very active in the recent four years. As you said, the funding from NIH may be the main reason for those guys’ inactiveness in academia.
Thanks again. I just got my rejections from DUKE and MINNESOTA at twin cities. These were my dream schools. Now I am waiting for the news from Purdue, OSU.
You are so nice!</p>
<p>Graduate students at OUHSC have the option to rotate with PIs at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, which is just across the street from the school. There is an emphasis on Alzheimer’s research, especially since Jordan Tang is there, but it may or may not be the kind of research you want to do.</p>
<p>Thank you for telling me that.
I have just checked OMRF. And I noticed Tang’s Research. Uh, Cute~</p>
<p>@microgirl
[NIH</a> Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tool (RePORT)](<a href=“http://report.nih.gov/award/trends/FindOrg.cfm]NIH”>http://report.nih.gov/award/trends/FindOrg.cfm)</p>
<p>Thanks Belevitt… a v helpful link</p>
<p>As far as helpful links go, this will get you the info about what grants a PI has, their expiration, scope and some other useful info.
[CRISP</a> - Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects, Query Form](<a href=“http://crisp.cit.nih.gov/crisp/crisp_query.generate_screen]CRISP”>http://crisp.cit.nih.gov/crisp/crisp_query.generate_screen)</p>