Internal Funding

• COM Research Investment Funds

  The Research Investment Fund programs are funded by the College of Medicine and were established to provide support for biomedical shared resources. There are two programs:    
  

  • Shared Equipment Program. 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. Please see the Shared Equipment Guidelines for application instructions.
  
  
  • Innovative Technology. The overarching goal of the Basic Science Research Committee 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. Please see the Innovative Technology guidelines for application instructions.

  Contact comor@osumc.edu, in Ohio State's College of Medicine Office of Research with questions. 
  

   

• Dean's Bridge Funding Program

  The OSU College of Medicine established the Dean's Bridge Funding Program as a way to support independent research by providing short-term bridge funding to faculty with favorably reviewed, but unfunded, federal research projects. The goal of this program is to enhance the likelihood of faculty being successful in securing extramural funding, and more specifically, funding with full indirect costs.
  
  Applications for the Dean's Bridge Funding Program have set criteria which was determined by the College. The application criteria includes faculty rank, protected time, demonstration of need, productivity of research program, and a competitive federal application. 
  
  Awards are determined by an institutional review panel comprised of both clinical and basic science investigators in the OSU College of Medicine who are currently funded and have grant review experience at a national level. The major criterion is the realistic expectation of return on investment to the College of Medicine in the form of future research funding. Awards are limited to $50,000 and are intended primarily to support laboratory personnel, supplies and other required expenses.
   
  For more information, please contact comor@osumc.edu in Ohio State's College of Medicine Office of Research with questions.
  

   

• Dean's Discovery Grants Program

  To enable development of novel research ideas, the COM offers the Dean's Discovery Grants Program (Discovery and NCH Pilot Guidelines). The goal of this program is to provide sufficient research support to generate pilot data for extramural grant application(s), specifically funding with full indirect costs, within one year of the award. This program will enable successful scientists with a track record of productivity to broaden their research portfolio or generate new resources, striking out in new directions beyond current research, in areas relevant to the science community at the COM and of interest to extramural funding agencies.
   
  Funding is limited to a one-time support for the project identified in the application and are also limited to $25,000 for single investigator projects and $50,000 for larger team projects. This program is intended primarily to support current laboratory personnel, supplies and other required expenses (e.g., cores).
   
  For more information, please contact comor@osumc.edu in Ohio State's College of Medicine Office of Research with questions.
  

   

• Nationwide Children's Hospital & Research Institute/College of Medicine Cross-Campus-Collaborative Pilot Program

  A pilot program supported by Nationwide Children’s Hospital & Research Institute and the College of Medicine Office of Research to facilitate and encourage collaborative pilot projects between faculty at the two campuses. These pilots may include new partnerships, or partnerships that have already been established between the faculty of the two campuses.
   
  Funding is limited to a one-time support for the project identified in the application. Awards are limited to $25,000 for single investigator projects and $50,000 for larger team projects. This program is intended primarily to support current laboratory personnel, supplies and other required expenses (e.g., cores).
   
  For more information, please contact comor@osumc.edu in Ohio State's College of Medicine Office of Research with questions.