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| OSU Research Office | |
|---|---|
| Name | OSU Research Office |
| Type | Research administration |
| Location | Columbus, Ohio |
| Parent organization | Ohio State University |
| Established | 19XX |
OSU Research Office
The OSU Research Office is the central administrative unit responsible for coordinating research strategy, sponsored programs, and research policy at Ohio State University. It interfaces with faculty, staff, and external stakeholders to advance priorities in biomedical research, engineering, social sciences, and the arts, while supporting translational efforts, technology transfer, and large-scale interdisciplinary projects. The office serves as a nexus between grant-making agencies, corporate partners, philanthropic foundations, and campus research units.
The office provides pre-award and post-award services, research compliance oversight, and strategic planning for major initiatives such as interdisciplinary institutes, large instrumentation facilities, and cluster hires. It liaises with federal sponsors like National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, and National Aeronautics and Space Administration, while interacting with private funders including Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Simons Foundation, and corporate partners such as Intel Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, General Electric, and Pfizer. The office coordinates campus responses to national initiatives like the BRAIN Initiative, Cancer Moonshot, Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, and participates in consortia including CAVS, Association of American Universities, and Big Ten Academic Alliance.
Leadership typically includes a vice president for research, associate vice presidents, directors for sponsored programs, compliance officers, and staff for technology commercialization. Past and present leaders often engage with external boards such as the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Harrison Prize Committees, and advisory panels for agencies like NIH Center for Scientific Review and NSF Directorate for Biological Sciences. The office maintains relationships with campus units including College of Engineering, College of Arts and Sciences, Wexner Medical Center, Fisher College of Business, College of Veterinary Medicine, and regional campuses. Administrative structure aligns with offices for research development, proposal management, export control, biosafety, and human subjects protection.
Major programs address translational medicine, materials science, energy research, climate resilience, and data science. Initiatives frequently involve centers and institutes such as Wexner Medical Center Research Institute, Institute for Materials Research, Energy Sciences Center, Data Analytics Institute, and Sustainable Cities Lab. Large-scale projects align with calls from Office of Science and Technology Policy, National Quantum Initiative, Materials Genome Initiative, and global partnerships like Horizon Europe-linked consortia. The office supports interdisciplinary seed grants, cluster hires in fields linked to DARPA programs, and pilot funding for ventures with potential follow-on from entities such as Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer programs.
The office administers pre-award proposal development, budget preparation, subaward negotiation, and compliance with sponsor terms. It supports faculty seeking awards from agencies including NIH, NSF, DOE, USDA, NASA, and foundations such as Rockefeller Foundation and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. For industry-sponsored research, the office negotiates agreements with corporations like Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Procter & Gamble, Merck & Co., and Johnson & Johnson. It also manages institutional participation in multi-institution consortia funded through mechanisms like Cooperative Agreements, Program Project Grants, and Center Grants. Grant support includes guidance on indirect cost rates, cost-sharing policies tied to awards from National Endowment for the Humanities and National Endowment for the Arts, and coordination with the university’s finance and accounting departments.
Compliance functions oversee human subjects research review via Institutional Review Boards, animal care and use committees consistent with Public Health Service policy, biosafety committees aligned with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance, and export control adherence per International Traffic in Arms Regulations and Export Administration Regulations. The office enforces research integrity policies addressing allegations of misconduct, data management plans reflecting NIH and NSF requirements, and responsible conduct training in line with mandates from National Science Foundation and Office of Research Integrity. It collaborates with legal counsel on conflict of interest disclosures involving relationships with entities like Medtronic and Abbott Laboratories.
Strategic partnerships include translational collaborations with medical centers, corporate research labs, and public-private partnerships with organizations such as Battelle Memorial Institute, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University, and consortia with IBM Research. The office cultivates economic development ties with regional entities like JobsOhio, Columbus 2020, and innovation districts, while facilitating startup formation with support from incubators and accelerators such as Ohio Third Frontier programs and technology transfer offices. Licensing and commercialization efforts engage with venture capital partners, angel networks, and accelerators affiliated with Techstars and Y Combinator-type entities.
Oversight includes core facilities, shared instrumentation centers, vivaria, cleanrooms, and high-performance computing clusters. Core resources often reference equipment and facilities comparable to those supported by National Center for Research Resources, XSEDE, Argonne National Laboratory collaborations, and regional supercomputing partnerships. Infrastructure planning coordinates capital projects with campus facilities departments and philanthropic donors, enabling centers for advanced microscopy, genomics, proteomics, and nanofabrication that support collaborations with academic partners like University of Michigan, Purdue University, Penn State, and Cornell University.