The College of Science Research and Innovation Seed (SciRIS) Individual Investigator Program (SciRIS-ii) funds individual faculty who seek to establish or augment research relationships with external partners. Such partners may include OSU units outside COS, academic institutions, industry, and other organizations. SciRIS-ii provide funds to establish partnerships, accelerate project development, generate data and manuscripts, and foster proposal submissions.
SciRIS-ii has a unique purpose focused on assisting individual faculty efforts to develop research proposals for submission to an external funding agency. The awarded funds also enable indiviual PIs to establish research relationships with external partners to include in their proposals for extramural funding.
Award: $10,000
Eligibility
All COS faculty and research professionals are eligible to submit a proposal. Applicants may serve as PI or receive major funding for only one funded project (SciRIS-ii, SciRIS Stages 1-3, DMPF, Industry Partnership award, etc.) at any time. Applicants may serve in support roles on one or more funded grants.
Past funding
- 2025 - Internal funding boosts research in AI-powered ecology and immune system regulation
- 2024 - Innovation in cancer treatment and mathematics: SciRIS awardees lead the way
- 2023 - New grants to support breakthrough discoveries
- 2022 - Research grants to seed the next great idea
- 2021 - New grants to expand research on cancer imaging and quantum materials
- 2020 - New grants to advance science that benefits humankind
- 2019 - Physicist receives innovation award for cancer research