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ACARD Automated Claims and Medical Databases
AMC Academic Medical Centers
BAC Biostatistics Analysis Center
BGS Biomedical Graduate Studies
BIIT Biomedical Informatics in Translation
BRC Behavioral Research Center
BSEP Biostatistics and Epidemiology Program
CAEP Commercialization and Entrepreneurship Program
CBE Center for Bioethics
CBMI Center for Biomedical Informatics
CBIT Chemical Biology in Translation
CCEB Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics
CCMG Center for Comparative Medical Genetics
CCS Clinical Core Services
CDI Cardiovascular Disease Institute
CE Clinical Educator
CEU Clinical Epidemiology Unit
CFAR Center for Aids Research
CHOP Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
CMSDLD Center for Molecular Studies in Digestive and Liver Disease
COG Children's Oncology Group
COHSI Community Outreach using Health System Informatics
COI Conflict of Interest
CRCU Clinical Research Computing Unit
CRRWH Center for Research on Reproduction and Women's Health
CTSA Clinical and Translational Science Award
CVI Cardiovascular Institute
DBE Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
DME Department of Medical Ethics
DOT Dissemination of Translation
EAB External Scientific Advisory Board
EOC Executive Oversight Committee
EPI Evoked Phenotypes Initiative
FDA Federal Drug Administration
GCRC General Clinical Research Centers
GSK GlaxoSmithKline
HUP Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
IAB Internal Scientific Advisory Board
IAFCC Institute of the Abramson Family Cancer Center
IDOM Institute for Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism
IDS Investigational Drug Service
IME Institute for Medicine and Engineering
INS Institute of Neurological Sciences
IOA Institute on Aging
IP Intellectual Property
ITMAT Institute for the Translational Medicine and Therapeutics
JIPGP Junior Investigator Pilot Grant Program
KMAS Kinetics Modeling and Simulation
LDI Leonard Davis Institute
MSCE Master of Science in Clinical Epidemiology
MSTP Medical Scientist Training Program
MTR Master in Translational Research
NBI Novel Biomarker Initiative
OHSAP Office of Human Subject Advocacy & Protection
OMMC Outcomes Measurement Methods Core
OOC Operational Oversight Committee
ORS Office of Research Services
PBBR Program in Bio-Behavioral Research
PERMIT Personalized Medicine in Translation
PICAB Program in Comparative Animal Biology
PINB Program in Novel Biotherapeutics
PISB Program in Systems Biology
PITN Program in Translational Neurotherapeutics
PITT Program in Targeted Therapeutics
PMBG Program in Maturational Biology and Genomics
PMC Presbyterian Medical Center
PMI Pennsylvania Muscle Institute
POR Patient Oriented Research
RCC Recruitment and Coordination Core (Formerly, ROC Research Operations Core)
REP Research Ethics Program
RNC Research Nurse Core
ROC Research Operations Core
SAS School of Arts and Sciences
SCCOR Specialized Center for Clinically Oriented Research
SDAB Study Design and Biostatistics
SDM School of Dental Medicine
SEAS School of Engineering and Applied Science
SOM School of Medicine
SON School of Nursing
SVM School of Veterinary Medicine
TACTO Translational and Clinical Trial Organization
TAPITMAT Transdisciplinary Awards Program of the Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics
TBIC Translational Biomedical Imaging Center
TRC Translational Research Center
TRL Translational Research Laboratories
UPHS University of Pennsylvania Health System
UPMC University of Pennsylvania Medical Center
USP University of the Sciences in Philadelphia
WI Wistar Institute