VCOM 2016 Annual Report

A D V A N C I N G R E S E A R C H

Board and a number of private foundations. Also in response to the Strategic Initiative to stimulate new osteopathic research projects, several new and exciting translational and clinical research projects have been initiated. The faculty at the Virginia campus has over $7,026,160 in currently active multi-year grant awards. Over $11,846,512 in grant proposals have been submitted.

faculty have been active at conferences and meetings, presenting a large number of posters and presentations. Consistent with the strategic plan to increase extramurally funded research, faculty have submitted many new extramural grant applications. The funding agencies include NIH, National Science Foundation, American Heart Association and Commonwealth Health Research

in playing their part to achieve the College’s strategic goal of becoming the one of the top ranked osteopathic medical schools in research. Another milestone this year was VCOM–Carolinas first Research Day, which is covered in this report on page 66. Plans for research seminars which will be open to all faculty and students are planned for later this year.

education, laboratory, and animal investigations. Renovations for a new research facility, known as the Magnolia Research Center has been completed on our campus. Currently, faculty from the Carolinas campus have over $282,837 in active grant awards. Over $458,975 in new research proposals have been submitted. Recent grant awards show the commitment our VCOM–Carolinas faculty have

been actively engaged in submitting extramural applications to federal agencies and research foundations. Seven different faculty, in both the clinical and biomedical disciplines, have submitted proposals as principal investigators. In the first year that the research program at VCOM–Auburn has been active, the faculty at the college have current active grant awards of over $129,285, and over $708,565 in grant proposals have been submitted.

initiative with the Jack Hughston Foundation. VCOM will help to facilitate motion analysis research, which will involve collaborations with Hughston Clinic Orthopaedic faculty and residents. This initiative will bring together partners within Auburn University such as engineering, veterinary medicine and kinesiology.

The VCOM–Auburn research program is expanding, and faculty at this campus have

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