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Description of research development office or office that implements research ment activities: Research Development falls under the Office of Research and Graduate develop-Studies that

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Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University ……… ……… 3

Florida Atlantic University….……… 8

Florida International University….……… 12

Florida State University… ……….15

Mayo Clinic Florida ……….19

Nova Southeastern University……… ….22

Stetson University….……….… ………….25

University of Central Florida….……….……… 29

University of Florida….……….….……… 33

University of Miami….……… 41

University of North Florida….……….….45

University of South Florida… ……….49

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

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Institution Name: Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

City, State: Daytona Beach, Florida

Website: https://erau.edu

Description of University: Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University is the world’s oldest and

larg-est, fully accredited university specializing in aviation and aerospace With a combined annual rollment of nearly 30,000 students, Embry-Riddle is a non-profit private institution offering more than 80 associate’s, bachelor’s, master’s, and doctorate degree programs through the College of Arts & Sciences, the College of Aviation, the College of Business, the College of Engineering, and the College of Security and Intelligence Embry-Riddle is organized into three campuses led by Chancellors, with oversight from the President and university administration located on the Dayto-

en-na Beach, Fla., Campus Embry-Riddle’s residential campuses provide education in a traditioen-nal setting in Daytona Beach and Prescott, Ariz., and its Worldwide Campus provides instruction to off-campus students, through top-ranked online learning and more than 125 centers in the U.S., Eu-rope, Asia, and South America

While rooted in aviation, research at our Daytona Beach campus has expanded to include a verse range of areas, including engineering, cyber and homeland security, human factors, model-ing and simulation, business, space systems, high-performance vehicles, unmanned and autono-mous systems, robotics, alternative and sustainable energy, medical human factors, commercial space operations, and more We are developing the 90-acre Embry-Riddle Research Park adja-cent to the Daytona Beach campus Within the Research Park is the John Mica Engineering and

di-Aerospace Innovation Complex, or MicaPlex, with an experimental aerodynamics laboratory and

wind tunnel under development In addition to this research park, Embry-Riddle manages the FAA NextGen Florida Test Bed

Embry-Riddle was recently selected to lead the new Air Transportation Center of Excellence for Technical Training and Human Performance by the FAA, which includes top-tier academic re-search institutions and more than 20 industry partners Embry-Riddle is also a core member of the

FAA’s Center of Excellence for Unmanned Aircraft Systems

Description of research development office or office that implements research ment activities: Research Development falls under the Office of Research and Graduate

develop-Studies that reports to the (Interim) Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs and Research, Dr Maj Mirmirani The Office of Sponsored Research Administration, responsible for proposal budg-ets and certifications, reports to the Chief Financial Officer (Dr Randy Howard)

The Office of Research and Graduate Studies overseas two internal seed funding programs for faculty; the University Research Council; the Institutional Review Board; the University’s PhD pro-grams; and the University’s research website

Annual Sponsored Funding Awards and/or Annual Research Expenditures: $21.5MM FY16

What are your institution’s areas of strength or initiatives for future growth/collaboration?

 Unmanned and Autonomous Systems and Robotics

 Space and Atmospheric Physics

 Green Aviation and Hybrid, Electric propulsion

 Cyber Security and Cyber Assurance

 Aviation Business Management

 Astronomy and Astrophysics

 Aerospace/Advanced Materials

 Modeling and Simulation

 Human Factors

 Aviation Safety

 Commercial Space Operations

Research Development Administrator Name: Michael P Hickey

Degree(s)/ Certification(s): PhD (Physics) Title/Position: University Dean of Research and Graduate Studies; Director, IRB

Phone: 386-226-7059 Email: michael.hickey@erau.edu

Research Development Administrator Name: Teri Gabriel

Degree(s)/ Certification(s): MPA, CRA, CFHSP Title/Position: Assistant Director of Research; IRB Assistant Director Phone: 386-226-7179

Email: Teri.Gabriel@erau.edu

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Research Development Administrator Name: Nan Guzman

Degree(s)/ Certification(s): MBA, CRA Title/Position: Director, Office of Sponsored Research Phone: 386-226-7695

Email: Guzmann2@erau.edu

Director of Office of Sponsored

Research Nan Guzman

Office of Sponsored Research Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

(Reports to Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer)

Office of Research and uate Studies University Dean

Grad-Dr Michael Hickey

IRB

Teri Gabriel

Undergraduate Research (IGNITE)

Organized Research Units

Office of Research and Graduate Studies

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

(Reports to Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Research)

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Florida Atlantic University

Institution Name: Florida Atlantic University (FAU)

City, State: Boca Raton, FL

Website: http://www au.edu/research

The Division of Research supports FAU faculty conducting research, forging innovations and

advancing science and technology in all disciplines It assists in enhancing and growing the research enterprise at the university Units within the division identify grant and funding opportunities, manage proposals and awards, protect intellectual property rights, and highlight research achievements and more

The division also promotes a number of entrepreneurial and economic development initiatives that give faculty, students and the community opportunities to launch start-ups, create jobs and reach for their dreams

Annual Sponsored Funding Awards and/or Annual Research Expenditures: R&D

Expenditures $21,214,000 (2015; NCSES)

What are your institution’s areas of strength or initiatives for future growth/collaboration?

FAU has identified “research pillars” focused on institutional strengths:

Healthy Aging (I-HeAL)

James Galvin, M.D., M.P.H is leading the Institute for Healthy Aging and Lifespan Studies He is leading a team on redesigning the healthcare infrastructure, creating novel intervention programs to improve the care of dementia patients and their caregivers, leading to improved mobility, delayed nursing home placement, reduced hospital re-admission, and decreased costs

FAU BRAIN Institute (I-BRAIN)

Randy Blakely, Ph.D., an internationally renowned neuroscientist with expertise in synaptic molecular biology, neurotransmitter transporters, and human genetics, is pursuing research collaborations and educational relationships with regional, national and international partners, including Scripps Florida and the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience on the FAU Jupiter campus

Sensing and Smart Systems (I-SENSE)

Jason Hallstrom, Ph.D., leads the Institute for Sensing and Embedded Network Systems

Engineering He studies the “Internet of Things” and how everyday objects like our clothes and roads are now able to talk to us Advancements in computing, communication, and sensing make it

possible to embed tiny wireless sensors in homes, yards, shoes and other everyday items He’s growing a network of partners, including global companies Telit and Atmel, and Scripps Florida and Max Planck Florida

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Science and the College of Engineering and Computer Science

Research Development Administrator Name: Karin Scarpinato

Degree(s)/ Certification(s): Ph.D., M.S

Title/Position: Senior Associate Vice President for Administrative

Affairs

Phone: 561-297-3461 Email: kscarpinato@fau.edu

Research Development Administrator Name: Susan Day

Degree(s)/ Certification(s): Ph.D

Title/Position: Senior Proposal Development Specialist Phone: 954-821-3746

Email: sday5@fau.edu

Division of Research Office of Proposal and Grant Development

Florida Atlantic University

Coordinator (Foundation Opps)

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Florida International University

Institution Name: Florida International University (FIU)

City, State: Miami, FL

Website: www.fiu.edu

Description of Office/University: The Research Development Unit (RDU) is part of FIU’s Office

of Research and Economic Development (ORED) The RDU strives to strengthen research and scholarship activities at FIU by offering an array of support services tailored to the identified needs of research faculty For faculty interested in securing external funding, the unit identifies grant

opportunities and assists with proposal preparation To foster multidisciplinary collaboration and team science, ORED stimulates professional interest areas and networking groups A robust

professional development program, offered in partnership with senior leadership from FIU’s colleges, provides FIU faculty with the tools needed to hone their skills as researchers, and with guidance that aligns their research efforts with their departments’ requirements for tenure and promotion

FIU is the largest university in South Florida Through 12 colleges and schools, FIU offers 192

bachelor, master, and doctoral degree programs and conducts basic and applied research

Interdisciplinary centers and institutes conduct collaborative research to seek innovative solutions to economic, technological, and social problems The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching classifies FIU as an R1: Doctoral Universities – Highest Research Activity FIU is a diverse community with nearly 55,000 students (Fall 2015 enrollment) that represents the future of American public universities More than half of FIU undergraduates qualify for Pell grants and are the first in their families to graduate from college

Annual Sponsored Funding Awards and/or Annual Research Expenditures: $163.03m

(FY2015)

What are your institution’s areas of strength or initiatives for future growth/collaboration?

Child and Family Mental/Behavioral Health

Climate Change/Sea Level Rise/Water

Environmental Health/Public Health

Extreme Events

Health Disparities

Research Development Coordinator Name: Maureen C Pelham

Degree(s)/ Certification(s): MS, MHA

Title/Position: Director, Research Development Unit

Phone: (305) 348-0485

Email: mpelham@fiu.edu

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Organizational Chart: Research Development

Unit Office of Research and Economic

Development Florida International University

Florida State University

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Institution Name: Florida State University

City, State: Tallahassee, Florida

Websites: FSU: www.fsu.edu

Research: https://www.research.fsu.edu/ (research.fsu.edu) Office of Proposal Development: https://www.research.fsu.edu/research-offices/opd/ (opd.fsu.edu)

Description of University: One of the nation’s elite research universities, Florida State University

preserves, expands, and disseminates knowledge in the sciences, technology, arts, humanities, and professions, while embracing a philosophy of learning strongly rooted in the traditions of the liberal arts FSU’s campus is located on the oldest continuous site of higher education in Florida, in a com-munity that fosters free inquiry and embraces diversity, along with championship athletics, and a prime location in the heart of the state capital

FAST FACTS

 Founded in 1851; oldest continuous site of higher education in Florida

 Carnegie Commission classification: “Doctoral Universities: Highest Research Activity”

 41,473 students from every Florida county and 140 countries

 Accepted freshmen for 2016: 4.1 GPA; 1858 average SAT score

 93% retention rate for freshmen; 79.4% graduation rate by sixth year

 542 buildings on 1,604 acres; main campus in Tallahassee is 475 acres

 2,409 traditional faculty; has included 6 Nobel Laureates

 14,367 employees

 Operating budget of $1,575,794,473

 $200.8 million in contracts and grants brought in by faculty in 2015

 341 degree programs: bachelor’s, master’s, doctoral, specialist, professional

Description of research development office or office that implements research development activities: The Office of Proposal Development (OPD), a component of the Office of the Vice

President for Research at Florida State University, serves as a resource for faculty seeking grant support Created in the fall of 2013, the office provides a variety of services including proposal de-velopment assistance, faculty partnership identification, as well as training opportunities for faculty who are new to grant seeking and grant writing OPD also provides targeted funding notices and other research-related resources Our mission statement is below:

In an effort to increase faculty success in achieving external support for research and creative

activi-ties, the Office of Proposal Development seeks to Equip faculty with the best possible grant sources, to Train faculty through use of interactive, relevant and effective workshops and programs, and to Assist faculty by providing high quality proposal development and consulting services

re-Annual Sponsored Funding Awards and/or re-Annual Research Expenditures: approx $200M What are your institution’s areas of strength or initiatives for future growth/collaboration?

Office of Research Organizational Chart- 2017

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Office of Proposal Development (OPD) Organizational Chart- 2017

Name: Beth Hodges, MSW

Title/Position: Director

Phone: 850-644-2257

Email: bhodges@fsu.edu

Name: Mike Mitchell, BS

Title/Position: Proposal Development Coordinator

Phone: 850-644-9511

Email: mike.mitchell@fsu.edu

Name: Rachel Goff-Albritton, PhD

Title/Position: Research Development & Training Specialist

Phone: 850-644-3044

Email: r.goffalbritton@fsu.edu

Name: Grace Adkison, BS

Title/Position: Council on Research and Creativity Coordinator

Phone: 850-645-5751

Email: gadkison@fsu.edu

Mayo Clinic Florida

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Institution Name: Mayo Clinic Florida

City, State: Jacksonville, Florida

Website: http://www.mayo.edu/research/florida

Description of Office/University: Mayo Clinic cares for more than 1 million patients each year

at its campuses in Florida, and in Minnesota, Arizona and the Midwest Our goal is to accelerate the delivery of scientific breakthroughs to transform the practice of medicine From the discovery in our labs to translation and testing in clinical trials to application in our practice and across the world, we are committed to developing bridges to accelerate research and to bring new solutions to patients Mayo Clinic has implemented central research administration covering all locations, which supports discovery and translation, and application of research findings

At Mayo Clinic in Florida, discovery science is administered under the Discovery and Translation labs, which comprises of three signature programs in cancer, brain and disease pathobiology, each

of which supports groups of researchers involved in organized thematic groups with expertise in cific disease areas

spe-Discovery: Advancing discoveries through team science

At Discovery and Translation Labs at Mayo Clinic in Florida, researchers advance innovative basic science into the biological processes impacting disease, targeting discovery to meet clinical needs Using Team Science collaboration, Mayo scientists and clinicians and patients connect towards a common goal: new discoveries and their application to provide the best medical care

Translation: Bridging basic science discoveries into Clinical Trials

Mayo Clinic supports an extensive network of research centers and programs including:

Center for Regenerative Medicine harnesses the potential to actually repair diseased, injured,

or congenitally defective tissues and organs

Center for Individualized Medicine brings forward the latest discoveries from research labs to

clinical care in the form of new genomics-based tests and treatments

Cancer Center reduces the burden of cancer worldwide through collaboration across the full

spectrum of cancer research, from basic biology to treatment

Robert and Arlene Kogod Center on Aging deepens the knowledge about the biology of aging

to improve patient care and the quality of life for older adults

Center for Clinical and Translational Science(CCaTS) implements best practices for

transla-tion from basic discovery to clinical and community-engaged research

Robert D and Patricia E Kern Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery applies scientific

and engineering principles to transform the way patients everywhere receive and experience health care

Mayo has 29 institutional core facilities including a new centralized robotic freezer capable of storing 3.5 million DNA samples The Mayo Clinic Biobank has enrolled over 50,000 participants, and offers biological samples of DNA, serum, plasma, and an aliquot of frozen white blood cells

Application: Advancing Innovation and Commercialization to scale our processes for broad application

Mayo Clinic supports collaborative agreements with commercial entities to promote interchange of ideas and accelerate the process from discovery to translation to application Our Translation

Boards are comprised of Mayo Clinic scientific and clinical opinion leaders who are carefully matched with each product development opportunity, and assist in rapid advancement of those products into clinical trials Our product-specific project management teams nurture and shepherd product devel-opment to meet timelines and milestones

Annual Sponsored Funding Awards and/or Annual Research Expenditures:

Annual research expenditures (2015): Mayo Clinic in Florida: $56 million; Mayo Clinic (all sites):

$668 million

What are you institution’s areas of strength or initiatives for future growth/collaboration?

At Mayo Clinic, our primary value remains that the needs of the patient come first Research at Mayo Clinic addresses the unmet medical needs of patients Mayo Clinic has had a long and endur-ing commitment to research, and throughout the course of our history, we have successfully translat-

ed scientific discoveries into treatments, providing hope and healing to patients

Mayo seeks external collaborations to complement our clinical capabilities to develop new solutions and to provide access to scalable solutions that will streamline and accelerate the delivery of scien-tific breakthroughs to transform the practice of medicine

Research Development Administrator Name: Tushar Patel

Degree(s)/ Certification(s): M.B., Ch.B

Organization: Mayo Clinic Florida Position: Dean for Research City, State: Jacksonville, Florida Phone: 904-953-3200

Email: patel.tushar@mayo.edu

Research Development Administrator Name: Sharon Collins

Degree(s)/ Certification(s): M.Ed., BBA Organization: Mayo Clinic Florida Position: Research Program Coordinator City, State: Jacksonville, Florida

Phone: 904-953-7283 Email: Collins.sharon1@mayo.edu

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Nova Southeastern University

Institution Name: Nova Southeastern University (NSU)

City, State: Davie, FL

Website: www.nova.edu/tred

Description of Office/University: NSU is a not-for-profit, independent university with

approximately 23,000 students, 172,000 alumni, a sprawling, 314-acre Fort Lauderdale-Davie campus and a presence throughout Florida, the U.S and nine countries around the world NSU offers a vast number of undergraduate, graduate and professional degrees through our 18 colleges and schools in the fields of Medicine, Psychology, Pharmacy, Arts and Sciences, Dental Medicine, Education, Law, Optometry, Computer and Information Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences, Nursing, Business, and Oceanography

Translational Research and Economic Development (TRED) is the focal point for basic, applied, clinical and commercial research at NSU TRED is the overarching organization for the Office of Sponsored Programs, Office of Clinical Research, Office of Technology Transfer, and the Grant Writing Laboratory TRED is actively establishing partnerships with companies, investors, and entrepreneurs interested in utilizing NSU’s vast wet and dry lab spaces and the core facilities in the state-of–the-art Center for Collaborative Research

Annual Sponsored Funding Awards and/or Annual Research Expenditures: $87 million What are your institution’s areas of strength or initiatives for future growth/collaboration? Healthcare

Cancer, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Gulf War Illness, Autism, Cardiovascular Disease, Disorders Causing Blindness, Outbreaks and Viral Infections

Research Development Coordinator Name: Roxana Ross

Degree(s)/ Certification(s): M.B.A., GPC Title/Position: Director of Operations/Grant Writing Manager Phone: office 954-262-7517; cell 954-203-0414

Email: rr877@nova.edu

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Office of Translational Research and Economic Development (TRED) Organizational Chart—2017

Stetson University