The University of Michigan Medical School will be the destination for world-class research faculty, learners, and staff with active development across all stages of their careers. Tactics including:

• Support for Outstanding Research (SOAR)
• Pandemic Research Recovery Program
• Research Climate Council
• Professional Development
  -Programs for each faculty career stage
  -Clinical Research Coordinator career ladder
  -Postdoctoral fellows salary policy – NIH level
  -Evaluate research technical staff career bands
  -Endowment to support graduate student training
  -Coordination & support for physician scientist training
  -Develop pipeline programs – student – faculty
  -Research, Operations, Management & Strategy Fellowship
• Expand Resources and Tools to Cultivate Competitiveness
  -Establish a central training grant office
  -Faculty on-boarding tool with Faculty Development
  -Update proposal sampler
  -Update boilerplate language (DEI, data management, etc.)
  -NIH Other Support assistance
  -Large grant support
  -Release Discovery module for Michigan Experts

An integrated research ecosystem will foster collaborations across disciplines, the University, external partners, stakeholders, and communities. Tactics including:

• Identify scientific areas where the power and synergy of U-M can be brought to bear to advance science and health
  Strategic Research Domains
     -Neuroscience
     -eHealth
     -Health Equity
     -Opioids & Pain
     -Inflammation
  Crosscutting Themes
     -Interdisciplinary Collaborative Science
     -Health Disparities
     -Lifespan
     -Translation to Impact
• Provide large-scale grant support
• Develop a mechanism to facilitate organic community formation by faculty with common research interests
• Enhance Michigan Experts

Our pioneering research will enable innovative, high-risk, and transformative biomedical discoveries. Tactics including:

• Dedicate internal funds to support “bold” science. CLICK HERE to learn more about Research Scouts, one example of programs supporting bold science.
• Develop mechanisms to bring diverse faculty together intellectually to solve scientific and health problems
  -Think tanks, ideation jams, TEDx, coffee chats, pubs & grub, Center-2-Center
  -Foster an entrepreneurial ecosystem to advance novel findings and translate discoveries
  -Capitalize on commercialization & seed funds to accelerate MM innovations
  -Recruit faculty with an entrepreneurial phenotype

The U-M clinical research enterprise will be best in class, executing investigations of the highest quality and impact that improve clinical care, value, access, and outcomes. Tactics including:

• Improve efficiency of activating high-quality clinical trials.
• Build capabilities to become lead site of multi-site clinical trials.
• Execute “site-less” clinical trials using modern smartphone and web app tools
• Streamline processes
• Modernize regulatory review workflows & eRRM application
• Improve inpatient research workflows & partnerships
• Expand tools: Advarra eReg, recruitment, etc.
• Expand research to strategic ambulatory clinics & statewide community affiliates

Our vibrant research environment will facilitate scientific excellence through cutting-edge infrastructure and expert services. Tactics including:

• Strengthen IT infrastructure
  -Embedded research liaisons
  -Expand Academic IT core
  -Managed device program
  -High-speed research network
  -Computing package
  -Data storage, security, & dissemination
  -Access to health data
  -New tools: Salesforce (centralized training grant data) & Epic reporting and recruitment tools
• World-class Cores & resources
  -Continued technology investments
  -Transforming cores - Advanced Microscopy & Advanced Genomics
  -New central cores: Mobile Health & Wearables Collaborative & Training Grant Office
  -Michigan Research Cores portal
  -MM integrated website redesign – "Research” breadth and depth
• Renovations & Improvements
  -Generator Projects
  -BSRB Vivarium
  -Med Sci I B & D Wing
  -Med Sci II