Grant Funding Needs Parallel the Start-Up Venture: An Analogy for Translational Research Success

Pogue, Brian W.

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“…38 In a thriving research environment, incubation and birth of startup companies is a key indicator of healthy transformative research. 13 Many large academic institutions overtly support new homegrown startups to mature intellectual property by people who are the most vested in its success. 39 Smaller medical centers are less likely to allow company incubation or tolerate faculty leaves for startup initiation, unlike larger academic centers.…”

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“…A locally engaged environment with national and international connectivity, provides the support for researchers and students who can compete successfully for funding and are leading in their field of study. 13 Support for faculty hiring in clinical departments is always a point of discussion, based largely around financial support concerns. In terms of faculty hiring, the clinician-scientist type model is promoted at many larger academic medical centers for outstanding candidates, and this model could work for clinical-physicist-scientist.…”

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“…Successful engagement within the program requires active team‐based activities as simple as journal clubs, research‐based clinical rounds, and regular colloquia, as well as outreach activities that ensure national and global activity in research networks and funding. A locally engaged environment with national and international connectivity, provides the support for researchers and students who can compete successfully for funding and are leading in their field of study 13 …”

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“…Technology or tools invented at the institution are advanced along with building the company itself 38 . In a thriving research environment, incubation and birth of startup companies is a key indicator of healthy transformative research 13 . Many large academic institutions overtly support new homegrown startups to mature intellectual property by people who are the most vested in its success 39 .…”

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A roadmap for research in medical physics via academic medical centers: The DIVERT Model

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The field of medical physics has struggled with the role of research in recent years, as professional interests have dominated its growth toward clinical service. This article focuses on the subset of medical physics programs within academic medical centers and how a refocused academic mission within these centers should drive and support Discovery and Invention with Ventures and Engineering for Research Translation (DIVERT). A roadmap to a DIVERT‐based scholarly research program is discussed here around the core building blocks of: (a) creativity in research and team building, (b) improved quality metrics to assess activity, (c) strategic partnerships and spinoff directions that extend capabilities, and (d) future directions driven by faculty‐led initiatives. Within academia, it is the unique discoveries and inventions of faculty that lead to their recognition as scholars, and leads to financial support for their research programs and reconition of their intellectual contributions. Innovation must also be coupled to translation to demonstrate outcome successes. These ingredients are critical for research funding, and the two‐decade growth in biomedical engineering research funding is an illustration of this, where technology invention has been the goal. This record can be contrasted with flat funding within radiation oncology and radiology, where a growing fraction of research is more procedure‐based. However, some centers are leading the change of the definition of medical physics, by the inclusion or assimilation of researchers in fields such as biomedical engineering, machine learning, or data science, thereby widening the scope for new discoveries and inventions. New approaches to the assessment of research quality can help realize this model, revisiting the measures of success and impact. While research partnerships with large industry are productive, newer efforts that foster enterprise startups are changing how institutions see the benefits of the connection between academic innovation and affiliated startup company formation. This innovation‐to‐enterprise focus can help to cultivate a broader bandwidth of donor‐to‐investor networks. There are many predictions on future directions in medical physics, yet the actual inventive and discovery steps come from individual research faculty creativity. All success through a DIVERT model requires that faculty‐led initiatives span the gap from invention to translation, with support from institutional leadership at all steps in the process. Institutional investment in faculty through endowments or clinical revenues will likely need to increase in the coming years due to the relative decreasing size of grants. Yet, radiology and radiation oncology are both high‐revenue, translational fields, with the capacity to synergistically support clinical and research operations through large infrastructures that are mutually beneficial. These roadmap principles can provide a pathway for committed academic medical physics programs in scholarly leadership that will preserve medic...

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Section: B4 Academic-startup Partnershipsmentioning

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“…23 One of the indicators that this is happening to some extent is the documented growth in dual-PI grants at the U.S. National Institutes of Health, as well as industry-academic partnership program funding. 24…”

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Ensuring Scientific Publishing Credibility in Translational Biomedical Optics

Pogue

2019

J. Biomed. Opt.

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Grant Funding Needs Parallel the Start-Up Venture: An Analogy for Translational Research Success

Abstract: This editorial offers some ways to think about how best to position a research group for funding, by examining the parallels between what is needed for translational grants versus industry start-ups.

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A roadmap for research in medical physics via academic medical centers: The DIVERT Model

A roadmap for research in medical physics via academic medical centers: The DIVERT Model

Ensuring Scientific Publishing Credibility in Translational Biomedical Optics

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