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 $28.8 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 $293 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.
Presbyterian Health Foundation (PHF) New Reporting Requirement
Beginning in December 2023, PHF has added a new reporting requirement to
all progress reports. If $10,000 or more remain unexpended on the grant, the Progress Report must include an explanation for why unexpended funds remain. If an investigator expects to have significant funds remaining, there is the option to request a no-cost extension within 40 days of the grant’s end date. If you have any questions, please email
VPR@ouhsc.edu.
Grant Cycles Table
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Cycle I
(All PHF Grant Programs)
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Cycle II
(Bridge Grant Program Only)
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Cycle III
(Bridge Grant Program Only)
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Application Due Date
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February-April
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July
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November
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Scientific Merit Review
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March-April
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August
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November
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PHF Board Review
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May-June
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September
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December
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Earliest Project Start Date
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July
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October
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December
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REQUEST FOR APPLICATIONS – CYCLE II - Spring 2024
Presbyterian Health Foundation (PHF) Technology Advancement Grant (TAG) Program – Request For Applications
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.
Presbyterian Health Foundation (PHF) Seed Grant Program – Request For Applications
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.
IMPORTANT UPDATE: This PHF Seed Grant program can now provide funding for up to $75,000 for one year.
Presbyterian Health Foundation (PHF) Bridge Grant Program – Request For Applications
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.
Presbyterian Health Foundation (PHF) Clinical Translational Grant Award (CTGA) Program – Request For Applications
The CTGA program will replace 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:
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Promote collaborative scientific interactions among investigators
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Support translation of novel basic/pre-clinical observations or the translation, dissemination, and implementation of clinical observations to community settings
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Foster engagement of interdisciplinary teams
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Support collaborative interactions among clinical and fundamental research investigators leading to co-authored papers and grant applications.
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. A single investigator may only be awarded one CTGA award at a time, whether as contact PI or collaborating PI.
Presbyterian Health Foundation (PHF) Research Support Grant Program – Year 2 ONLY- Request For Applications
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 funding is dependent upon meeting milestones proposed in prior year grant proposal. There is no first-year funding opportunity in 2024; after this second-year funding opportunity, this program will be discontinued. 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. If you have any questions, please email
VPR@ouhsc.edu.
Presbyterian Health Foundation (PHF) New Investigator Seed Grant Program –Year 2 ONLY- Request For Applications
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. 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. Applicants must have received a Year 1 New Investigator Seed Grant and 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;
however, completion and submission of the PHF Year 2 New Investigator Seed Grant Critique Form is required with this application. If you have any questions, please email
VPR@ouhsc.edu.
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
IMPORTANT CHANGE: There is no first-year funding opportunity in 2024; after this second-year funding opportunity, this program will be discontinued.
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.
Presbyterian Health Foundation (PHF) Clinician Scientist Development Grant Program – Request For Applications
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. If you have any questions, please email
VPR@ouhsc.edu.
Presbyterian Health Foundation (PHF) Symposium Grant Program – Request For Applications
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. If you have any questions, please email
VPR@ouhsc.edu.