The Oklahoma City-based Presbyterian Health Foundation (PHF) was formed from proceeds of the sale of Presbyterian Hospital in 1985 and, in 2014, sought to establish a unique collaboration with OUHSC via the PHF Research Grant Program (Bridge, Seed, Team Science, Equipment, Clinical Scientist Development, Research Support, and Symposia Grants). This grant program funds multiple types of projects and has enabled the progression of pioneering concepts to research studies, the establishment of renowned clinicians and basic scientists transdisciplinary teams unifying a broad range of expertise and skills, the development of extremely talented junior faculty, the provision of infrastructure support for faculty to continue ground-breaking research, and more. The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center would like to express our sincerest appreciation to the Presbyterian Health Foundation for their long standing generous support.
Since 2014, PHF has given $23.985 million to support the PHF Research Grants Program that funds multiple types of grants (e.g., Bridge, Seed, Team Science, Equipment, Clinical Scientist Development, Research Support, and Symposia Grants). To date, this investment has facilitated the ability of our researchers to successfully compete at the national level and develop research programs, resulting in approximately $211.3 million in extramural funding.
PHF grants are awarded once a year, with the exception of the Bridge Grant Program. The Bridge Grant Program is the ONLY program that has three application deadlines per year (April, July, November). Provided below is the Grant Cycles Table.
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.
REQUEST FOR APPLICATIONS – CYCLE I - Spring 2023
Presbyterian Health Foundation (PHF) Research Support Grant Program – Request For Applications
- Cycle I PHF Research Support Grant Program Deadline: February 24, 2023
The PHF Research Support Grant Program will help support senior doctoral graduate students working on an externally funded research project in order to accelerate progress on the project, increase the number of publications on the project, and position the project for continued external funding. Outcomes of this program will be based upon work performed by the graduate student resulting in publications and external funding and will be carefully recorded and tracked.
The Principal Investigator must be an OUHSC primary faculty member. Principal Investigators who are full-time OUHSC faculty members, have external funds that support the project a senior graduate student is working on, and are the research mentor of the senior doctoral graduate student are eligible to apply.
Graduate students being supported by the PHF Research Support Grant program must be doctoral graduate students, have finished the majority of their coursework, and have a dissertation research project that is supporting an externally funded research project. The PHF funds must only fund that part of the stipend where the student is working on the externally funded research project. The Principal Investigator must have the funds to support the externally funded research project that the graduate student is working on and is expected to have funds to cover the rest of the graduate student’s stipend and other costs related to the graduate student’s education. Second year and third year funding is dependent upon meeting milestones proposed in prior year grant proposal. There are no restrictions on holding other PHF Grants during the duration of this award. A Principal Investigator may not hold more than two PHF Research Support Grants concurrently.
PHF Research Support Year One Grant Guidelines
PHF Research Support Year Two Grant Guidelines
Presbyterian Health Foundation (PHF) New Investigator Seed Grant Program – Request For Applications
- Cycle I PHF New Investigator Seed Grant Program Deadline: March 10, 2023
The primary objective of the PHF New Investigator Seed Grant Program is to provide a two-year grant for OUHSC New Investigators to initiate research programs and obtain extramural funding. A secondary objective is to fund highly promising New Investigators from each of the six OUHSC professional colleges. Applicants must fit the following definition of a New Investigator: An investigator who has not previously received substantial, independent funding from NIH (e.g. R01-type funding) or a comparable funding agency. Multi-PI applications are not allowed. Each of the six OUHSC professional colleges (Allied Health, Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, and Public Health) may nominate one faculty member for this award. Applicants must be nominated by their professional college in order to apply for this award. The professional college nominating the faculty member must agree to assign a mentor for this project and must commit to providing the mentor with $2,500/year for mentoring activities; the mentor does not need to be an OUHSC faculty member. Each college may set up their own nomination process for this award.
The Principal Investigator must be an OUHSC primary faculty member. 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 New Investigator Seed Grant recipients may not hold a PHF Bridge Grant, a PHF Clinician Scientist Development Grant, a PHF Team Science Grant, a Research Support Grant, or a PHF Seed Grant for the duration of this award.
PHF New Investigator Seed Grant Year One Grant Guidelines
PHF New Investigator Seed Grant Year Two Grant Guidelines
Presbyterian Health Foundation (PHF) Clinician Scientist Development Grant Program – Request For Applications
- Cycle I PHF Clinician Scientist Development Grant Program Deadline: March 10, 2023
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. 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). Applicants must not have had a prior NIH career development award or an independent NIH R01 award; must have an independent clinical and/or translational research project; must have an identified senior, experienced research mentor; and may not have another PHF grant during the duration of this award.
PHF Clinician Scientist Development Grant Year One Grant Guidelines
PHF Clinician Scientist Development Grant Year Two Grant Guidelines
Presbyterian Health Foundation (PHF) Team Science Grant Program – Request For Applications
- Cycle I PHF Team Science Grant Program Deadline: March 24, 2023
The primary objective of this PHF Team Science Grant is to foster innovative, collaborative approaches to research projects involving multiple investigators. The proposal must focus on the collaborative relationship, such that the scientific objectives could not be achieved without the efforts of at least two investigators and their respective expertise and/or disciplines. The proposal must consist of two or more investigators, with the majority at OUHSC, who can develop a broadly based, multidisciplinary research program focused on a specific disease entity, biomedical problem area, or clinically relevant problem. The combination and integration of studies may include basic, clinical, community-based and/or translational research endeavors. The proposal should focus on developing collaborative relationships and co-authored papers required for submission of multi-PI grants, program project grants, center grants, or other large collaborative-type grants (PCORI or AHRQ). The funding for this program can be for up to three years with the 2nd and 3rd year of funding, if funds are available, based on successful achievement of identified milestones, quality of specified milestones to be met during the next year of funding, and submission of a team-type grant application by the end of the 2nd year.
Each proposal submitted must consist of two or more investigators with a single investigator identified as the Contact PI/Team Leader. The Contact PI/Team Leader must be an OUHSC primary faculty member; adjunct faculty members are not eligible. At least half of the investigators on the team must be OUHSC primary faculty members. The other investigators may be from other institutions.
PHF Team Science Grant Year One Grant Guidelines
PHF Team Science Grant Year Two Grant Guidelines
PHF Team Science Grant Year Three Grant Guidelines
Presbyterian Health Foundation (PHF) Equipment Grant Program – Request For Applications
- Cycle I PHF Equipment Grant Program Deadline: November 30, 2022
The primary objective of the PHF Equipment Grant program is to provide partial funding for critically needed research equipment. 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. OUHSC Principal Investigators are eligible if they meet the following criteria: 1) All Assistant, Associate, or Full Professors are eligible to apply.; 2) 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. Requests should be sent to ORA4PHF@ouhsc.edu.; 3) PHF Equipment Grant recipients may hold any other PHF Grant award simultaneously, except for a Clinician Scientist Development Award.
PHF Equipment Grant Guidelines
Presbyterian Health Foundation (PHF) Symposium Grant Program – Request For Applications
- Cycle I PHF Symposium Grant Program Deadline: November 30, 2022
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.
PHF Symposium Grant Guidelines
Presbyterian Health Foundation (PHF) Seed Grant Program – Request For Applications
- Cycle I PHF Seed Grant Program Deadline: December 2, 2022
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.
PHF Seed Grant Guidelines
IMPORTANT UPDATE: This PHF Seed Grant program can now provide funding for up to $75,000 for one year. SALARY and FRINGE BENEFITS may be requested for the Principal Investigator(s) up to $25,000 in total (salary + fringe benefits = $25,000) with the remaining portion, $50,000, used to support the project costs.
Guidelines and Application Forms 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 VPR@ouhsc.edu.
Presbyterian Health Foundation (PHF) Bridge Grant Program – Request For Applications
- Cycle I PHF Bridge Grant Program Deadline: April 3, 2023
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.
IMPORTANT UPDATE: This program can now provide funding for up to $100,000 for one year. SALARY and FRINGE BENEFITS may be requested for the Principal Investigator(s) up to $25,000 in total (salary + fringe benefits = $25,000) with the remaining portion, $75,000, used to support the project costs. 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 VPR@ouhsc.edu.
PHF Bridge Grant Guidelines