What is a PI?

[medical22]

This may be a stupid question, but what does PI stand for?

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[Mansoor]

primary investigator. The guy who is in charge.

 

[none]

What isn't a PI!

 

[wgu]

A person who spends most of his/her time applying for grants

 

[wgu]

oops, ignore this post

 

[Vader]

Principal investigator.
aka: the big cheese

 

[Necrotic]

Potentially Insane

 

[bubblywatr]

so is it...?

I. Principle
II. Primary
III. Potentially

a) I only
b) II only
c) I and III only
d) II and III only

 

[Original]

Private Investigator

 

[wgu]

I stole this from a website **owned by V-A-D-E-R** :

AAMC: Association of American Medical Colleges

AMCAS: American Medical College Application Service

GPA: Grade Point Average

GRE: Graduate Record Exam

HMO: Health Maintenance Organization

MCAT: Medical College Admissions Test

M.D.: Doctor of Medicine

MSTP: Medical Scientist Training Program

NIGMS: National Institute of General Medical Sciences

NIH: National Institutes of Health

PCR: Polymerase Chain Reaction

Ph.D.: Doctor of Philosophy

P.I.: Principal Investigator

There we go, just refer all newbies to this thread

 

[Vader]

"Stole" it from a certain MD/PhD web site I see... gotta give credit where it's due.

(another shameless plug):
<a href="http://go.to/mdphd" target="_blank">http://go.to/mdphd</a>

 

[wgu]

Haha, sorry Vader... now I remember where I originally copied that from. We should refer newbies to your webpage and have them print off a pdf copy in future.