OUHSC Vision/Initiatives for OU-OUHSC Biomedical Engineering Symposium OUHSC Vision/Initiatives for Norman campus collaboration James Tomasek, PhD OUHSC Vice President for Research March 24, 2017
Transforming Research(er) siloes into A Campus-Wide Research network 8 10 1 2 9 3 11 7 4 6 5 12 1 - HSC Colleges 2 - Basic Sciences 3 - Research Centers 4 - SCC (Cancer) 5 - HHDC (Diabetes) 6 - DMEI 7 - OU Med. Ctr. 8 - OMRF 9 - Children’s Hospital 10 - VA Med Ctr. 11 - OU Physicians 12 - Research Park OU-Norman
OUHSC is a Comprehensive Academic Health Centers Graduate College Allied Health Public Health Nursing Pharmacy Medicine Dentistry
Sponsored Awards 2012 – 2017 (Q1 & Q2) * $122M 552 $112M 524 $137M 556 $134M 546 $140M 567 $74M 326 * At the midpoint of 2017, award data is at 60% of 2016 4
NIH Awards 2012 – 2017 (Q1 & Q2) * $47M $62M $53M $49M $30M 164 165 189 159 96 * At the midpoint of 2017, award data is at 60% of 2016
NIH Awards by Institute FY 2016 Award Count $10,102,765
HSC Research Strategic Plan: Collaboration with BME 1. Provide an environment to advance excellence in discovery, creativity, and technology development Enhance campus-wide communication about research and research opportunities Support a Sooner-to-Market pipeline to assist with commercialization 2. Advance team-based research Incentivize team-based research through targeted funding Partner with peer institutions 3. Accelerate translational research Facilitate collaborative research between basic and clinician scientists 4. Expand research in thematic areas Grow research in Cancer/Tobacco Use and Prevention and Diabetes/Metabolic and Vascular Disease across all colleges at the Health Sciences Center Continue to advance research in Vision/Neuroscience, Geroscience, and Immunology/Infectious Disease
OUHSC Profiles Research Networking Software
IBEST-OUHSC Funding for Interdisciplinary Research The goals of the University of Oklahoma Biomedical Engineering, Science, and Technology (IBEST)-OUHSC Funding for Interdisciplinary Research collaborative project are to: • Promote the integration of engineering principles and innovations with medical and clinical research. • Facilitate the creation of multi-disciplinary clinical-engineering research teams with faculty members from OU-Norman and OUHSC required. • Foster research and exploration of novel ideas, new platforms, and emerging opportunities that will be the foundation of team-based or center proposals in the specified areas. • Build team for larger, multi-disciplinary proposal Four IBEST-OUHSC Interdisciplinary Research projects were funded spring of 2017 at $20,000/project Anticipate another call for grants spring 2018 9
Office of Technology Development Growth Fund Program The goals of the OTD Growth Fund Program are to: Strengthen the commercial potential of disclosed OU innovations Move innovations closer to market Provide funding for: - development of prototypes - additional research results Funding is available up to $75,000 for one year Spring applicants are currently being reviewed There will be another call for applications Fall 2017 10
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