1. 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

2. Transforming Research(er) siloes into A Campus-Wide Research network8 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

3. OUHSC is a Comprehensive Academic Health Centers
Graduate
College
Allied Health
Public Health
Nursing
Pharmacy
Medicine
Dentistry

4. 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

5. 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

6. NIH Awards by Institute
FY 2016
Award Count
$10,102,765

7. 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

8. OUHSC Profiles Research Networking Software

9. 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

10. 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

11. Thank you 11