VCOM 2024 Annual Report

Research at VCOM Creating the Future of Medical Technology Today V COM’s research department offers a variety of services, including matching faculty and student research ideas to appropriate funding sources. The department also helps develop and manage large-scale, cross-campus project teams; assists with development and content editing; offers statistical consulting; and helps with technology transfer and licensing of intellectual property. The department supports faculty, students, residents and hospital partners. VCOM’s commitment—both philosophically and financially—to research has borne a lot of fruit over the years. Many of the research projects that receive extramural funding start off as intramural projects. VCOM currently has 25 internally funded research projects with a dedicated budget of $1.2 million annually to support research. Seventy-two percent of these projects feature collaborators from partner institutions, and about 20% feature new investigators.

Notable recent research awards include: • Nearly $4 million from the

Department of Defense for a syndromic surveillance project with the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland • More than $2 million from the NIH to study the effect of cranial OMM on neuroinflammation • A CATCH grant from the American Academy of Pediatrics to engage caregivers and children in a fun learning experience about the topic of anxiety • A USDA Emergency Rural Health

Care Grant to enable VCOM to deploy its mobile medical unit in weeklong medical mission

experiences in rural Spartanburg and Cherokee Counties in South Carolina

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