Research News – Monday, May 26, 2025

The OU HRPP has established an Emergency Preparedness and Response Plan in the event an emergency occurs that affects the conduct of human research or the operations of the HRPP and IRBs. This plan applies to OU researchers and research teams, HRPP staff, IRB members, and all human research studies under the jurisdiction of OU IRBs. Researchers should be aware:

The Emergency Preparedness and Response Plan is available on the HRPP website About Us page HERE. Please contact the HRPP/IRB if you have questions by emailing irb@ouhsc.edu.    

 

 

Please join the Institutional Research Core Facility for a Lunch and Learn with Illumina to discuss Illumina Single Cell Prep.  There is also a Core LabGrant Opportunity.  Please submit your short abstract to Jenny-Gipson@ouhsc.edu by June 13^th.

Date:  Friday, May 30th

Where:  BRC Room 109

When:  12pm – 1pm

Please register at https://eventregistration.illumina.com/UOHSCSingleCellSeminar or scan the QR code on the attached flyer.  Lunch will be provided.   

 

The Native Nations Center for Tribal Policy Research (NNCTPR), would like to announce an event that the NNCTPR, in collaboration with Tana Fitzpatrick, Associate Vice President of Tribal Relations, and the Center for Faculty Excellence will host as part of our Ethical Tribal Engagement Series. This event will be held on Tuesday, June 17, 2025 12:00 to 1:30 at the Robert M. Bird Library Inasmuch Foundation Atrium room on the OUHSC campus as well as virtually. This ETE traveling event will be offered as part of the Improving Cancer Outcomes in Native American Communities (ICON) Grant.  

 

Inaugural Annual Neurology Research Symposium – Hosted by the Department of Neurology, University of Oklahoma, School of Medicine – Date & Location: Friday, June 13, 2025, at the Basic Sciences Education Building (West Lecture Hall).   

Visit for more information: https://medicine.ouhsc.edu/academic-departments/neurology/neurology-symposium

The Geroscience T32 NIH training program currently supports 3 post-doctoral fellows and 5 graduate students with research interests in the field of geroscience.  Send applications to William-Sonntag@ouhsc.edu and melissa-k-day@ouhsc.edu as a single pdf file with your last and first name.  Applications are due no later than Tuesday, May 20^th at 5:00pm.

 

The primary objective of the PHF Bridge Grant Program is to provide funding to enhance OUHSC faculty competitiveness for extramural funding. OUHSC Principal Investigators are eligible if they meet the following criteria: 1) have submitted an extramural application within the past 18 months that was scored but not funded, 2) are requesting over $750,000 in total direct costs and over $200,000 in total facilities and administration (F&A) costs; and 3) received a review that ranks applications and provides critiques. This program provides funding for up to $75,000 for one year. Guidelines and Application Form are attached or can be found at https://research.ouhsc.edu/research-administration/grants/funding-opportunities/phf-funding. If you have any questions, please email  Kathy-Kyler@ouhsc.edu.

 

The primary objective of the PHF Clinician Scientist Development Grant Program is to provide funding to a new or early-stage clinician scientist faculty member. This award is designed to support the applicant’s clinical and/or translational research project and to assist him or her with advancing this research project to a level that will be competitive for funding through a federal career development award mechanism. This program can provide funding for up to two years. The second year of funding will be based on successful achievement of identified milestones, completion of an application for Year Two funds, and whether funds are available.

The Principal Investigator must be an OUHSC primary faculty member with appointment at OUHSC as an Assistant Professor. Fellows are permitted to apply with a letter from their department chair guaranteeing the fellow will hold a faculty position that is not dependent on receipt of the grant at the award start date. New or early-stage clinical scientist faculty members with Temporary Faculty appointments (faculty with academic titles such as instructor, lecturer, or titles modified by prefixes such as visiting, adjunct, clinical, or temporary research appointments with suffix “of Research”) must obtain approval from the Vice President for Research before submitting an application for this program. Approval will require a letter from their Department Chairperson indicating a departmental commitment of salary, research space, and time for development of an independent career at OUHSC.  Requests should be sent to ORA4PHF@ouhsc.edu). Guidelines and Application Form are attached or can be found at https://research.ouhsc.edu/research-administration/grants/funding-opportunities/phf-funding. If you have any questions, please email  Kathy-Kyler@ouhsc.edu.

 

The CTGA program replaces the Team Science program. The primary objective of this PHF CTGA mechanism is to grow collaborations and expand innovative healthcare research activities and promote collaboration among faculty to help OUHSC achieve the goals outlined in Pillar 1 of the Strategic Plan. The investigators must consist of one basic science researcher and one clinician researcher who can develop a broadly based, multidisciplinary research program focused on a specific disease entity, biomedical problem area, or clinically relevant problem. The proposal must focus on the collaborative relationship, such that the scientific objectives could not be achieved without the efforts of a basic science researcher, a clinician researcher, and their respective expertise and/or disciplines. It is expected that both members of the investigator team will devote an equivalent amount of effort to the project (60/40 or 50/50 distribution of effort).

The funding for this program can be for up to two years. The second year of funding, if funds are available, will be based on successful achievement of identified milestones as noted by the researchers in the Year 1 application and quality of specified milestones to be met during the next year of funding, as documented in the completed Year Two application form.

This funding opportunity is intended to:

PHF CTGA awardees may hold PHF Symposium grants, Technology Advancement Grants (TAG), or Bridge grants throughout the duration of this award, but may not serve as the Contact PI/Team Leader on more than one PHF Clinical Translational Grant. Guidelines and Application Form are attached or can be found at https://research.ouhsc.edu/research-administration/grants/funding-opportunities/phf-funding. If you have any questions, please email  Kathy-Kyler@ouhsc.edu.

 

The primary objective of the PHF Seed Grant program is to provide a one-year grant for new OUHSC investigators to initiate research programs. Secondary objectives are to provide established OUHSC faculty with the opportunity to initiate new unfunded projects and to provide unfunded OUHSC faculty funds to initiate a research program. Applications from new investigators (within 5 years of first full academic appointment and never having received independent federal funds) are given special consideration during peer review and at the time of funding consideration. Principal Investigators with Temporary Faculty appointments (faculty with academic titles such as instructor, lecturer, or titles modified by prefixes such as visiting, adjunct, clinical, or temporary research appointments with suffix “of Research”) must obtain approval from the Vice President for Research before submitting an application for this program. Approval will require a letter from their Department Chairperson indicating a departmental commitment of salary, research space, and time for development of an independent career at OUHSC.  Requests should be sent to ORA4PHF@ouhsc.edu.

PHF Seed Grant recipients may not hold a PHF Bridge Grant or a PHF Clinician Scientist Development Grant during the duration of this award. Guidelines and Application Form are attached or can be found at https://research.ouhsc.edu/research-administration/grants/funding-opportunities/phf-funding. If you have any questions, please email  Kathy-Kyler@ouhsc.edu.

 

The primary objective of the PHF Symposium Grant program is to provide partial funding to support a National or International Symposium to be held at the OUHSC campus or in Oklahoma City. Funding priority will be given to themes that will promote research already present at OUHSC and OMRF and include both OUHSC faculty members and OMRF members in the Organization Committee. OUHSC Principal Investigators are eligible to apply if they meet the following criteria: 1) The Principal Investigator of the application must be the Chair of the Organizing Committee. Only OUHSC full-time, tenure-track faculty members (unmodified titles) are eligible to be PIs. 2). The PI may hold any other PHF Grant award, except for a Clinician Scientist Development Award.

 

The TAG program replaces the Equipment grant program. The primary objective of the PHF TAG program is to provide partial funding for critically needed research equipment that could be transformative for the research mission at OUHSC. This program is fully aligned with Pillar 1 of the Strategic Plan. The TAG program will proactively and with the help of a committee address campus-wide needs and fill critical gaps, with the goals to grow the research enterprise, expand innovative technology and research infrastructure, and promote addition of new cutting-edge technology on campus. Funding priority will be given to research equipment that will permit OUHSC investigators to be more competitive for external funding and provides support to multiple users. Funds may be used for equipment to be purchased as part of a recruitment package for new faculty or for equipment to support the research of current faculty. If the funds will be used for a new recruit, the recruit must have signed the offer letter with a specific start date or specific start date time frame. Equipment and/or technology funded by PHF is expected to be made available to all researchers at OUHSC, whenever possible. All OUHSC Assistant, Associate, or Full Professors are eligible to apply. Applicants are required to match requested funds. The maximum allowable budget for this program is $500,000 (PHF funding: $250,000; Applicant funding: $250,000). The minimum allowable budget for this program is $60,000 (PHF funding: $30,000; Applicant funding: $30,000). Only one application will be accepted per investigator per year.