Ohio University’s Innovation Strategy program has provided $50,000 in a seed grant to help a team of Ohio University faculty on a project named Establishment of a Natural Product Research Center & Commercialization Platform.
This project is focused on identifying and developing natural products with proven therapeutic value for the marketplace.
The team includes principal investigator Dr. Shiyong Wu, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry in the College of Arts & Sciences and the Edison Biotechnology Institute; Brian Clark and Darlene Berryman, Biomedical Sciences Department, Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine; Robert Silva and Jeffrey Wiseman, Research Division.
About Ohio University’s Innovation Strategy
The program is designed to incentivize novel, interdisciplinary collaborations in the areas of teaching and learning, research and scholarship, creative activity, and the operational functions of the university.
In the last year, the Innovation Strategy has awarded $4.5 million to 16 teams of faculty and staff for such initiatives. In June, Ohio University’s Innovation Strategy program provided $350,000 in seed grants to help seven teams of faculty and staff advance new initiatives. The seed grants have been awarded to help teams develop ideas further and to make them competitive for larger Innovation Strategy awards, other internal funding or external funding.
“Funding from the Innovation Strategy enables Ohio University faculty and staff to develop and launch creative initiatives that address major challenges,” said Joseph Shields, vice president for research and creative activity and dean of the Graduate College. “Projects chosen for seed funding were identified in the review process as having significant promise, with the potential to benefit from investment that enables further development.”
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