Internal Sponsors

Some funding opportunities are available from Ohio State sources. Proposals for these programs are not handled by the Office of Sponsored Programs. Contact the programs' administrators for more information.

Research Investment Funds (RIF)

The RIF program is funded by the College of Medicine and was established to provide support for bridge funding and biomedical shared resources. There are two programs:

• Shared Equipment Program RIF The objective of the Research Shared Equipment Program is to provide matching funds to support the purchase or upgrade of a single item of specialized equipment or integrated system for shared use between COM/NCH faculty and collaborators conducting competitive basic, translational or clinical research. The equipment must be used as functional core equipment. To promote cost effectiveness, to encourage optimal sharing among individual investigators, research groups and departments, and to foster a collaborative multidisciplinary environment, the equipment should be integrated into a central core facility, whenever possible.
• Biomedical Shared Resource Core RIF The overarching goal of the BSRC is to enable the development and dissemination of novel or innovative methodologies and technologies that expand the use of existing Shared Resource Core facilities. To achieve this goal, three integrated processes are involved: (1) identification of innovative test bed areas where investment would result in enabling a methodological platform that widely serves the interests of investigators resulting in new extramural funding; (2) incentivized plan to jump-start dissemination of the novel methodology through core services such that it may have a broad user base; and (3) cataloging and building a resource inventory of expertise (research networking) that will facilitate incorporation of novel methodologies into research endeavors. The aim is to attract proposals from investigators, co-sponsored by a core director, interested in developing novel methodologies to add innovation to their research projects.

Richard P. and Marie R. Bremer Medical Research Fund and William H. Davis Endowment for Basic Medical Research

This internally funded pilot project program was established to fund novel medical research with the goal of gathering preliminary data to strengthen proposals to external sponsors. The program is managed by The Ohio State University Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS). Contact the CCTS directly with questions regarding this program. 

Ohio State's Center for Clinical and Translational Science Funding Competitions

The CCTS manages multiple internal competitions for funding from the CTSA award. Please contact the CCTS directly with questions about these programs.