To provide - from the Dean

To provide the Michigan community with
medical and biotechnical resources in the form
of scientific knowledge and trained
professionals, so as to improve the overall
health of the community.
Over the next five years WSU SOM
research will impact positively
health care delivery and the health
of the population in Detroit, in
Michigan, throughout the US and
across the globe.
This goal will be achieved through an emphasis
on interdisciplinary, team science.
A multi-disciplinary team approach to science will:
1) 
Maximize current research strengths through
synergies in approach, innovations across fields,
and multiple perspectives regarding problems and
solutions.
2) 
Nurture, prepare and empower entering
investigators while sustaining, refocusing and
reinvigorating established investigators.
3) 
Enable and require participation from a broad
range of stakeholders in the research process
including, but not limited to, scientists, clinicians,
technicians, patients, industry and the
communities served.
1) A Program Project (‘like”) approach to the
research process
2) A continued emphasis on translational
research including an invigorated focus
on biomedical innovations (tech transfer)
1) 
2) 
3) 
Core Facilities
Research Administration
Faculty development
Paul Giblin, PHD
Professor of Pediatrics
Bonita Stanton, MD
SOM Office of Research
1) 
2) 
3) 
4) 
5) 
Review strategic plans of other SOM
Meet with groups of all basic science and
clinical chairs
Meet with directors of key SOM centers and
institutes
Meet with directors of key core facilities
Meet with research office staff
Establish 6 workgroups to function over four weeks
1) Identify research areas of strength and increase the number of
program center grants, K and T awards (one workgroup)
•  Program Project (Like) Grants
2) Attain rational resource allocation and administrative efficiency
(3 workgroups)
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Core Facilities
Research Administration
Faculty Development
3) Achieve research integration of basic science, clinical application
and population studies (two workgroups)
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Translational Research
Biomedical Innovations
BIOMEDICAL INNOVATIONS:
Stanley Terlecky (Pharmacology)
Michael Tainsky (Oncology)
CORES:
Joseph Dunbar (Physiology/OVPR)
Biocomputing, Bioinformatics & Biostatistics
Xiaoming Li (Pediatrics)
Patrick Gossman (Computing)
Clinical Genetics, Applied Genomics & Proteomics
Daniel Walz (Physiology)
Imaging
Kamiar Moin (Pharmacology)
Peter Lichtenberg (Gerontology)
Laboratory Animal Resources
Jin Jian-Ping (Physiology)
FACULTY DEVELOPMENT:
Steve Lerner (Internal Medicine)
Diane Chugani (Pediatrics)
PROGRAM PROJECT GRANTS
Gloria Heppner (OVPR/KCI)
Bonnie Sloane (Pharmacology/KCI)
RESEARCH ADMINISTRATION:
Donal O’Leary (Physiology)
Gail Ryan (OVPR)
Anna Spiroff (Research & Graduate Programs)
TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH:
Noreen Rossi (Internal Medicine/VA)
Prashant Mahajan (Pediatrics)EM)
BIOMEDICAL INNOVATIONS
Joan Dunbar
Jeff Loeb
David Oupicky
Julie Rajzer
Linda Hazlett
Judith Whittum-Hudson
Leon Carlock
Maik Huttemann
Harley Tse
Bill Lyman
Mike Diamond
Roy sundick
Bhanu Jena
Bill Winkler
CORES
Judith Abrams
George Divine
SorinDraghici
Joseph Dunbar
Paul Giblin
Patrick Gossman
James Janisse
Christine Johnson
Stephen kaetz
Susan Land
Xiamoming LI
Jeffrey Loeb
Scott Millis
Ann Schwartz
Gerald Feldman
Loarry Grossman
John Kamholz
Paul Stemmer
Michael Simon
Nicholas Szerlip
Daniel Walz
Jeff Withey
Bruce Berkowitz
Harry Chugani
Matthew Galloway
Tim Hadden
Jeong-Won Jeong
Omar Khan
Mark Haacke
Kami Moin
Otto Muzik
Peter Lichtenberg
Izabela Podgorski
T.R. Reddy
Scott Bowen
Anthony Shields
Bonnie Sloane
Wilbur Smith
Jianjun WangJoashua Adler
Liz Dawe
Al.ex gow
Jian-Ping Jin
Yi-Chi Kong
Renu Kowluru
Lisa Polin
Karin Przyklenk
FACULTY DEVELOPMENT
Joyce Benjamins
C.J. Parrish
Diane chugani
David Evans
Andrew Fribley
Linda Hazlett
JP Jin
Steve Lerner
Prashant Jahajan
Raymond Mattingly
Bharati Mitra
Sylvie Naar-King
Melody Neely
Avraham Raz
Linda Rogh
Kendra Schwartz
Roberta Sonnino
RESEARCH ADMINISTRATION
Sonya Bell
Kathy Borlas
Connie Claybaker
Paula Dore-Duffy
Elizabeth Duffy
Joanne Kaiser
Larry Klain
Terri Larrew
Tej Mattoo
John McBride
Nada McIntyre
Donal O’leary
Maryjo O’loughlan
Barb Rauschendorfer
Gail Ryan
Mary Serowik
Robert Skoff
Anna Spiroff
Valerie Wade
Fayth Yoshimura
PROGRAM PROJECT GRANTS
Peter Baumann
Steve Cala
Deepak Bhalla
Freda Giblin
Matt Galloway
Hector Ganzalez
David Gorski
James Granneman
Gloria Heppner
Alan Hudson
Hyeong-Reh Kim
Renu Kowluru
Larry Lash
Robert Lisak
Melissa Runge-Morris
Adhip Majumdar
Ambika Mathur
Kathy meert
Dawn Misra
Paul Montgomery
Patrick Mueller
Nancy Artinian
T.R. Reddy’Sandra Rempel
Bonnie Sloane
Timothy Stemmler
Rboert Welch
Derek wildman
Kezhong Zhang
TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH
Elizabeth Berger
Michael Diamond
Leon Carlock
Phillip Levy
Richard Lewis
Jeffrey Loeb
Patricia Lorusso
William Lyman
Prashant Mahajan
Myra Meredith
Dawn Misra
Steven Ondersma
Philip Pellett
Karin Przyklenk
Noreen Rossi
Seetha Shankaran
Herbert Smitherman
Jack Sobel
Robert Sokol
Jeffrey Szymanski
Marilyn Wayland
Robert Welch
First meeting of working group chairs:
November 16, 2011
Second meeting of working group heads:
December 14, 2011
Strategic Planning Retreat:
January 17, 2012
Third meeting of working group chairs:
February 2, 2012
Research Strategic Plan presentation to the Faculty Senate:
February 15, 2012
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Support Structures
  Core
Facilities
  Research Administration
  Faculty Development
Translational Research
  Biomedical Innovations
  Program Project (“like”) Grants
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WSU SOM KEY CORE FACILITIES ARE
HIGHLY ACCESSED AND WELL SERVE
THE NEEDS OF THE ACADEMIC
COMMUNITY
1. SOM Key Core facilities are identified.
2. Support is sufficient to maintain optimal
functioning of these facilities
3. SOM researchers know of and have access to
these facilities
1) 
Expand membership of current University Core Committee to
include more research users from SOM;
2) 
Establish clear criteria, expectations and support for SOM Key
Core Facilities;
3) 
Establish centralized Core Facilities budget to address support for
annual service contracts, system upgrades, and technical
personnel;
4) 
Establish a Core Facilities voucher system to be utilized by faculty
to generate preliminary data to support for extramural funding;
5) 
Include separate voucher for start-up of new faculty to be used
during first 3 years of hiring;
6) 
Establish readily accessible Core Facilities web site;
7) 
Establish bio-statistics, bio-informatics, bio-computing and
behavioral studies (B4) Core.
1) 
2) 
3) 
4) 
Clear and widely visible designation of Key
SOM Core Facilities
Timely and accurate reports of Core Facility’s
accessibility, utilization and cost/revenue
reports
User satisfaction surveys of Core Facilities’
access, quality and costs
Annual reports of research support reliant
upon Core Facilities
RESEARCH ADMINISTRATION SERVES THE NEEDS
OF THE RESEARCHERS INCLUDING PROTECTING
THEIR WELL BEING AND THAT OF THE UNIVERSITY
1) 
Pre-award research administration supports researchers
and WSU through clear, uniform and widely understood
policies and procedures.
2) 
Post-award monitoring effectively supports researchers in a
timely, proactive and resource-efficient manner.
3) 
Data bases are easily accessible and reliable, enabling both
researchers and administrators easy access to reports
routinely needed for award submission, inter-departmental
collaboration and research monitoring.
1) 
Expand pre-and post-award support personnel available to SOM
researchers
2) 
Establish a SOM and OVPR advisory panel to develop uniform
pre- and post-award proposal policies for administrative and
fiscal management
3) 
Establish on-line tutorials on Banner, ePROP, Dashboard, etc.
4) 
Establish/expand intra-web faculty and research data bases.
5) 
Implement OnCore System
6) 
Improve the eProp System
7) 
Define, designing and receiving researcher-support data from
the WSUPG Data Warehouse (Business Intelligence)
1) 
2) 
3) 
4) 
Researcher satisfaction with administrative
support on proposal submission and management
Accuracy and timeliness of current research
account balances and projected year end account
balances
User-friendly data entry for patient entry on
clinical trials with accurate, timely and compliant
reporting
Availability and utilization of research and faculty
data bases to support grant preparation and in
identifying potential collaborators
SOM AND WSU HAVE EFFECTIVE FACULTY
DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS WHICH NURTURE,
SUPPORT AND OPTIMIZE RESEARCH CAREER
DEVELOPMENT, RECOGNIZING TRANSITIONS
THAT OCCUR ACROSS PROFESSIONAL CAREERS
1) 
All departments have formal mentoring programs with chair
accountability within the broader SOM faculty mentoring
programs.
2) 
Mentoring programs explicitly recognize and incorporate
team science mentoring.
3) 
Academic tracks and promotion and tenure criteria designed
for team scientists and clinician scientists
4) 
Faculty careers are supported across the professional lifespan
1)  Establishing
departmental mentoring programs for new
faculty and participation of mid-career and senior faculty in
SOM programs.
2)  Coordination
of all departmental mentoring programs through
the Departmental Faculty Development Liaisons appointed
through the Dean’s office and department chair
3)  Establishing
formal training program for new faculty on grant
preparation, core facilities and faculty and research data bases
4)  Instituting
the proposed Clinical Scholar Faculty track and a
Clinical Scientist Career Development Program with 40%
protected time for three years
5)  Prolonging
time to tenure (to 10 years)
1) 
Annual formal review of a department’s mentoring
program as part of the chairperson’s review
2) 
Annual review of faculty mentoring process for
individual faculty members
3) 
Semi-annual “check-up” of research progress of
faculty with research support >40%
4) 
Increasing number of faculty on the Clinician Scholar
track
5) 
More MDs on the tenure track
TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH AT THE SOM
IS WELL SUPPORTED, WELL UNDERSTOOD
WITH THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN FIELDS
OF RESEARCH AND CLINICAL SUPPORT
CLEARLY DESCRIBED
1) 
Faculty and trainees are well-informed about and have easy
access to resources supporting translational research.
2) 
Hospitals and other health organizations serve as active
research partners.
3) 
A primary role of Key SOM Core Facilities is support of
Translational Research.
4) 
SOM Master and PHD curricula in the “basic sciences”
clearly address clinical implications of these fields of study
1) 
Review and realign as necessary academic structures and priorities to
promote team science through P&T reviews, indirect cost sharing
2) 
Incentivize decision-makers to support cross-departmental and
clinical-basic science collaborations
3) 
Establish a public website highlighting community benefit of
translational research at WSU
4) 
Strategic hiring and retention of translational research faculty across
departments
5) 
Consolidate and focus WSU, OVPR & SOM resources promoting
translational research
6) 
Support all appropriate clinical trials by OnCore
7) 
Promote the visibility of translational research support activities
through kiosks, seminars and routine updates of the SOM Office of
Research and Graduate Programs
1) 
Increased faculty awareness of translational
research support services
2) 
Increased number of translational research
proposals submitted
3) 
Translational research proposals involve more
collaboration across departments.
4) 
Increased funding from the Vanguard Health
System supporting translational research.
SOM RESEARCH FINDINGS ARE
COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE FOR THE
PRACTICE OF MEDICINE
1) 
Biomedical Innovation is fully integrated into SOM
Research Efforts
2) 
The SOM Biomedical Innovations enterprise is highly
visible and easily accessible by all constituents
3) 
SOM Biomedical Innovations are known to potential
commercial partners
4) 
Revenues from SOM Biomedical Innovations
contribute to new research initiatives at the SOM
1) 
2) 
3) 
4) 
5) 
6) 
7) 
8) 
9) 
10) 
Expand SOM Biomedical Innovation staff
Appoint a life science industry representative to the SOM Board of
Visitors
Establish departmental liaisons to biomedical innovations office
Expand educational programs in biomedical innovation for faculty
and students
Fund “Proof of Concept” validation studies
Establish office/portal as single site for industry related contacts
Ensure Tech Town programs and resources meet commercialization
needs of SOM
Establish biomedical innovations website describing WSU’s
commercial value to the community
Revise distribution of royalty revenues to fund SOM research and
biotechnology development
Revise P&T guidelines for valuing biomedical innovations
1) 
Increased submissions of biomedical innovations
for licenses and patents
2) 
Increased submissions from faculty of commercial
opportunities to the biomedical innovations office
for review
3) 
Increased revenues from biomedical innovation
4) 
Increased awareness of philanthropic
opportunities in the donor community for
biomedical innovations
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THE WSU RESEARCH PORTFOLIO IS
CHARACTERIZED BY A SERIES OF
OVERLAPPING SCIENTIFIC TEAMS
1) 
Strong individually funded research
mentored by research teams is critical to the
development of successful PP(L)Gs.
2) 
Department chairs support the
interdisciplinary (interdepartmental)
collaborations through financial support.
3) 
The SOM and WSU support selected PP(L)
Gs through additional financial support
and administrative support
1) 
Identify SOM PP(L)G foci and obtain intramural
funding
2) 
Promote submissions of RO1’s, K & F and T32 awards
3) 
Monitor and provide incentives to PP(L)G submission
progress
4) 
Review academic structures and priorities to promote
team science
5) 
Review and revise as needed, SOM and WSU funding
processes to support the needs of interdisciplinary
research
1) 
Increased submissions of RO1’s, K & F awards
and T32 awards
2) 
Applications from multiple qualified groups
for intramural PP(L)G-support
3) 
Submission of 3 to 5 PP(L)G in five years