This search utility is intended to identify faculty members with expertise in a specified research area of interest. The search may be conducted across URMC as a whole, or constrained to a specified "department (see pulldown menu). The input search string can be any text descriptor of interest, such as "influenza", "stroke", etc. The search utility then looks for matches, based on data in the UR electronic CV (eCV) database (http://ecv.mc.rochester.edu/) - including grant data, publication data and information in the faculty research bio entered in eCV. Search results are returned in priority order, based on whether the search utility accessed the data in the faculty research bio first or last (see Search Engine options). Search results include a link to the faculty researcher's homepage, an image of the investigator and the first 50-75 words from the faculty member's research bio, if available.

You may select two search options. In one case, the search goes through grant data, then publication data and then information in the faculty member's research bio - and returns results in priority order, based on this search strategy. In the other case, the search starts with the faculty member's research bio, followed by grant and pub data.

-'And', and 'Or' work just how you would expect them to work
-* is our special operator. This allows you to do a partial word search, but it can only be applied AFTER a word. If you search for Med* the search looks for the first 3 letters to be 'Med' and the rest could be anything else. This works the same way if you put it at the front.