Research Funding Rockets to nearly $1B at OHSTU

Could your lab supply company benefit from gaining hundreds of qualified sales leads in one of the Midwest’s fastest-growing research universities? If so, you may be interested in the learning a bit more about the wonderful life science marketplace that exists at Ohio State University.

Ohio State is a major research contributor in many fields, including medicine and microbiology, and has consistently garnered greatly increasing amounts of funding for R&D for the past several years. For instance, Ohio State raised over $983 million for research and development in 2014, a significant increase from the $600 million less than a decade before.

Ohio State Ten-Year Research Funding Profile (www.osu.edu)

 In addition to ever-increasing amounts of private, state and industry funding, the National Institutes of Health granted Ohio State University researchers over $135 million in 2015. This research funding, and more, was distributed among many different research fields at Ohio State, including: biostatistics, critical care, microbial interface biology, minimally invasive surgery, clinical diabetes research, cancer research, a transplant center, a comprehensive wound center, oncology, lung research, and a geriatrics and gerontology center.

In addition to significant annual NIH research funding, Ohio State University has an impressive list of other recent funding statistics.

For example:

• 2013 Life Science R & D Expenditures: 24th Ranked = $454,561,000

• Research funding has increased from $600 million in 2005 to over $980 million in 2014.

• Ohio State was awarded $10 Million to advance aviation, education, and research facilities in July 2015.

• Ohio State University's Medical Center underwent a $1.1 billion expansion, which opened in September 2014.

• The Ohio State University Center for Clinical and Translational Science has been awarded $25.4 by the NIH in order to accelerate medical discoveries.

• Ohio State University received a $21 million investment from the Ohio Third Frontier to create a consortium of groups, termed the Neurotechnology Innovations Translator, or NIT, to help create neurotechnology companies and high-tech jobs in Ohio.

Because Ohio State University is such a diverse, well-funded, and active life science marketplace, Biotechnology Calendar, Inc. is offering lab suppliers and biotechnology vendors an excellent opportunity to promote their wares at the:

Last year, the BioResearch Product Faire™ Event at Ohio State University hosted over 300 attendees from 42 different research buildings and 57 on-campus departments at Ohio State. This is a receptive and engaging audience, comprised of the decision-making purchasing agents, lab managers, and other life science professionals who need your supplies for important research in 2016. 

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