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RUSH

We offer more than $1 million each year in funding opportunities for researchers at every stage of their career. Explore your options below.

Meet Your RUSH Team

Joshua J. Jacobs, MD

  • Chairperson, Department of Orthopedic Surgery
  • Professor, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Rush Medical College

Elizabeth Lynch, PhD

  • Associate Professor Department of Preventive Medicine, Rush Medical College
  • Director, Section of Community Health, Department of Preventive Medicine
Madeleine Shalowitz

Madeleine U. Shalowitz, MD,MBA

  • Associate Chair for Innovation Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Section of Community Behavioral Health, Rush Medical College
  • Department of Pediatrics, Rush Medical College
James L. Mulshine

James L. Mulshine, MD

  • Associate Chair for Innovation Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Section of Community Behavioral Health, Rush Medical College
  • Department of Pediatrics, Rush Medical College

Andrew Bean, PhD

  • Dean, The Graduate College Judd and Marjorie Weinberg Presidential Professor, Graduate College
  • Vice Provost for Research (Interim)

Ali Keshavarzian, MD

  • Professor Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition, Section of Gastroenterology, Rush Medical College
  • Director, Center for Integrated Microbiome and Chronobiology Research Physician-Scientist, Section of Gastroenterology
Zoe Arvanitakis

Zoe Arvanitakis, MD, MS

  • Section Chief, Section of Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Professor, Department of Neurological Sciences, Rush Medical College
  • Neurologist, Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center
  • Director, Rush Memory Clinic

Carlos A. Santos, MD

  • Director, Transplant Infectious Diseases Service
  • Associate Professor of Medicine
Division of Infectious Diseases
Rush University Medical Center

Lisa Sánchez-Johnsen, PhD

  • Vice-Chair for Research Associate Professor, Department of Family & Preventive Medicine, Rush Medical College
  • Co-Chair, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Workgroup
  • Director, Multicultural, Diversity and Latinx Health Equity Program
  • Core Faculty, Rush-Esperanza Family Medicine Program
Raj C. Shah MD

Raj C. Shah, MD

  • Professor Department of Family & Preventive Medicine, Rush Medical College
  • Co-Director, Center for Community Health Equity
  • Geriatrician, Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center
Santosh Basapur, PhD

Santosh Basapur, PhD

  • Director of Design, Rush University
  • Assistant Professor, Graduate College
  • Founder, Health + Design Integration Lab
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine, Rush Medical College

John W. Burns, PhD

  • Associate Chair for Research, Division of Behavioral Sciences
  • Professor, Division of Behavioral Sciences, Rush Medical College
Lisa Barnes

Lisa Barnes, PhD

  • The Alla V. and Solomon Jesmer Professor of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine Department of Neurological Sciences, Rush Medical College Neuropsychologist, Rush Alzheimer’s Disease
  • ITM KL2 Program MPI

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To Make it Happen.

Pilot Awards

For Investigators Up to $60,000

(K) Awards

For Young Investigators Up to $100,000

TL1 Trainee Awards

For Posdoctoral Scholars Starting at $48,000

Short-Term Pilot Awards

For Clinical Fellows and Residents Up to $5,000

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