USF’s Office of Research and Innovation in partnership with the Graduate School launched a new program - Graduate Student Research Challenge Grants.

The Science Coalition represents an alliance of more than 400 organizations, institutions, and individuals, of which there are over 45 of the nation’s top public and private research universities, who are dedicated to sustaining the nation’s commitment to leadership in basic science.

Belle Witter Elementary School in Tampa, FL is the recent recipient of an XRKade "active gaming" room, implemented as part of the University of South Florida's XRKade Research LAB at the school's College of Education.

Beaverton, OR (Jan. 16, 2009) -- Click Commerce, an ITW company (NYSE: ITW), announced today that the University of South Florida (USF) will use Click Commerce’s eResearch Portal to fully automate Institutional Review Board (IRB) processes for human participant research.

USF CONNECT would like to recognize the following companies and faculty for their partnerships on projects matched by the Florida High Tech Corridor.

Attention Principal Investigators! If you attained your terminal research degree or completed your medical residency within the past ten years, and you have not previously received a substantial NIH research grant, you may be eligible to qualify as an Early Stage Investigator (ESI) for the purposes of your NIH R01 research grant application. An ESI is a subset of the New Investigator category.

The Grants.gov transition from the PureEdge viewer forms software to the Adobe Forms software is nearing completion. Most federal agencies have started publishing all of their current Grants.gov funding opportunities in the new Adobe Forms.

NIH has provided updated information regarding the salary limitation for NIH grant and cooperative agreement awards and extramural research and development contract awards (referred to here as grants).

University of South Florida researchers have developed a technology using cell phones to enable people with brain injuries and other cognitive disabilities to use public transportation.

The University of South Florida tracked new clients of various Medicaid programs for three years to help identify the possible disparities between the true cost to Medicaid of managed care clients versus people served by the ADA and ALE programs.

MRI scans that detect shrinkage in specific regions of the mid-brain attacked by Alzheimer’s disease accurately diagnose the neurodegenerative disease, even before symptoms interfere with daily function, a study by the Florida Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC) in Miami and Tampa found.

Cell Transplantation - The Regenerative Medicine Journal, the number two journal ranked by impact factor in the field of transplantation, has become an "open access" journal from the 1st January 2009, starting with volume 18, making it available on the World Wide Web without subscription to researchers and clinicians as well the public and members of the media.

The da Vinci Surgical System, which combines state-of-the-art computer and robotic technologies, provides surgeons with an alternative to both traditional open surgery and conventional laparoscopy. USF urogynecologist Lennox Hoyte, MD, is the first physician on the Tampa General Hospital’s developing robotic surgery team to be listed on the da Vinci Surgery national website.

Karen A. Holbrook, vice president for Research & Innovation at the University of South Florida will serve on the search committee for ORAU's next president.

Dr. Peter Zhang, an associate professor in the department of chemistry at the University of South Florida, and his team received recognition for their work in the areas of organic and organometallic chemistry in a recent article prepared by Professor Michael Doyle, department of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Maryland-College Park.

The Office of Research & Innovation is very pleased to announce the upcoming deadline for the Spring cycle of the USF Internal Awards Program.

Supported by sponsorship from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, ASTM International, and the University of South Florida Water Institute.

The first workshop in USF CONNECT’s Seminar Series on “Funding Start-ups with Retirement Plan Assets” will be held on Wednesday, February 4, 2009, from 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. at USF CONNECT.