Membership Guidelines
Digestive Health Center (DHC) membership is granted to Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and University of Cincinnati Faculty based on the following criteria:
Full Membership "Investigator"
- Strong professional interest in digestive disease research
- Has actively funded independent peer-reviewed research in digestive disease
- Interact with at least one other member of DHC or a Director of DHC core
- Being a DHC Core Facility Director also qualifies as Full Membership.
Associate Membership
- Recently entered into digestive disease research as demonstrated by a publication or pre-R01 funding
Membership Privileges
- Discounted rates at the core facilities
- Priority use of the core facilities
- Priority registration for core facility workshops
- Inclusion on mailing and distribution lists
Obligations of Membership
- Participate regularly in DHC activities (i.e. attend weekly seminars, annual symposia and workshops)
- Providing requested information in a timely manner for use of the DHC administration
- Use one or more of the core services provided by the DHC
- Acknowledgement of the use of the core facilities and assistance in research funding by stating:
"This project was supported in part by PHS Grant DK P30 DK078392."
Membership Renewal
Status of Full Members will be reviewed at least every five years.
Status of Associate Members will be reviewed at least annually. Renewal will depend on research productivity as demonstrated by peer-reviewed publications and/or extramural grant on digestive disease.
How to Apply
Send the following information via email to Cynthia C. Wetzel, PhD; DHC Program Manager (cynthia.wetzel@cchmc.org)
- Name, Title, Department, Phone number, Email
- Updated NIH Biosketch
- A list of all current funding
- A description of digestive disease research and 1-2 sentence description of proposed collaborators with current DHC members
- A list of potential core use
The DHC Leadership will review your request with little delay.
Last updated: January 8, 2010
