Pacific northwest bioMedical Innovation Co-Laboratory (PMedIC)

Opportunities


Funding

Internal PNNL Funds

PMedIC Laboratory Directed Research Development (LDRD)
Purpose: Collaborative projects must be developed with scientists at OHSU. The project is expected to be innovative and generate preliminary data that will lead to a successful joint PNNL/OHSU grant application in the R, U or P series or equivalent.
Eligibility: PNNL Staff having collaborative OHSU Partner
Award Amount: <$25k/PNNL fiscal year (through Sept 30th each year)
Allowable Costs: PNNL Staff FTE, supplies
Due date: TBD Fall 2024
Timeframe: Start to September 30th
How to apply: Request for Applications will be released annually near October


Internal OHSU Funds

OHSU School of Medicine Exploratory Research Seed Grant (ERSG)
Purpose: Seed grants to explore new research directions leading to follow-on funding
Eligibility: Full-time School of Medicine faculty in the professorial and Research series. Original application required, submissions will be screened for overlap with prior funded awards.
Award Amount: Up to $5K/fiscal yr. (Fiscal year: 7/1-6/30)
Allowable Costs: Use at OHSU cores/PNNL—Must have approval from core director
Due date: Competitive applications are accepted on a rolling basis
Timeframe: Funds must be used in 1 yr. of award, no extensions.
How to apply: Applications will be electronic; Competitive Application Portal (CAPS) platform


PMedIC Innovation Grant

Purpose: Collaborative projects must be developed with scientists at PNNL. The project is expected to be innovative and generate preliminary data that will lead to a successful joint OHSU/PNNL grant application in the R, U or P series or equivalent.
Eligibility: All OHSU faculty with appointments in the professorial or research series may apply. Instructional, clinical, and adjunct faculty and trainees are not eligible for this grant mechanism.
Award Amount: Up to $50,000K/fiscal yr. (Fiscal year: 7/1-6/30)
Allowable Costs: OHSU FTE, F&A, PNNL sample analysis, etc.
RFA: July
Due date: August each year
Timeframe: OHSU funds must be used by end of Fiscal year 6/30, no extensions.
How to apply: Applications will be electronic; Competitive Application Portal (CAPS) platform. Go to CAPS and search for 'PMedIC Innovation Grant FYXX' where XX is the current fiscal year.


Oregon National Primate Research Center (ONPRC) Pilot Grant Research Program

Purpose: To encourage activities related to the use of nonhuman primates (NHPs) for biomedical research or for studies enhancing NHP welfare or husbandry.
Eligibility: Applicants need not be ONPRC core scientists; however, if a non-core scientist is the PI, an ONPRC core scientist must be involved in the planning, execution, and supervision, and must assume responsibility for overall project management, coordination, and progress reports.
Award Amount: Up to $75,000
Allowable Costs: Personnel, supplies, animals, equipment <$5,000, F&A, consultant services
RFA: TBD Spring
Due date:
Timeframe: Earliest funding start is May 1
How to apply: Request for Applications will be released annually in the winter, near December


PMedIC Internships

Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) partner together to offer distinctive internship opportunities for OHSU trainees to participate in highly-customized research experiences. Our aim is to generate, interpret, and integrate multidimensional omics and imaging data with clinical results to gain mechanistic understanding of disease and develop innovative therapies. We work with trainees who have a focus or thesis within this realm to provide internships that are crafted to specifically meet their unique research aspirations.

PMedIC has helped trainees create internships for a variety of experiences, often focusing on integrative omics. Sometimes, a student has an established data set or banked biosamples and is searching for an opportunity to analyze them with PNNL's advanced equipment, capabilities, and expertise. Other times, trainees develop a strong research proposal in collaboration with their mentor and we're able to assist in matching the student with a PNNL research expert to move the project forward. We often help trainees answer important biological questions using imaging and computer science as they pursue their research topics. The opportunity to intern with at a national laboratory, working in state-of-the-art facilities, and being mentored by world-class experts is rare. We want to help OHSU trainees gain access to this opportunity, designing experiences to connect with their individual research goals.

Flexible and Customized Internship Experiences

Each internship takes a customized approach to research and the intern’s experience. We offer hybrid and in-person internships, depending on the needs of the intern and purpose of the research project. If you are an intern hoping to gain more experience with instrumentation, you'll spend a larger portion of time on the PNNL-Richland campus. Located just a little under four hours from the OHSU campus, interns on-site at PNNL have the opportunity to use equipment that may not be available anywhere else, gaining training that is critical to their future as a researcher. Other trainees may have projects that are focused more on the analysis portion of the project, allowing them to complete more of the internship remotely.

The parameters for the focus, modality, and length of internship are designed in collaboration with our PMedIC team and with prospective interns to make sure it delivers the distinctive PMedIC internship value for which we're known.

Talk with Us About an Internship

Ready to connect with us about an internship? We'd love to make that happen. All internships must be initiated with the full-support of your mentor, so it is critical that you have those conversations prior to reaching out to us to begin this process. To prepare for the conversation, please email us with the following information:

  • Training and Research Goals: Please address the training and research goals you have, how those may align with your OHSU thesis, and why PNNL provides a valuable opportunity for you (in terms of collaboration with a principal investigator, capabilities as a laboratory, or facilities).
  • Expertise: Provide an overview of your current expertise and research projects. Our goal is to understand what background you would be bringing into this internship.
  • Current Collaborations: Have you already had conversations with a PNNL researcher related to this idea? If so, what background or context could you share that would be helpful for us to understand?
  • Faculty Mentor Support: We work in partnership with OHSU faculty mentors to champion OHSU trainees' experiences. Please address whether you have discussed this with your faculty mentor and whether you have established any shared goals or outcomes related to this internship potential.
Email

Josh Adkins, Ph.D. - PMedIC Co-Director
Jamie Lo, Ph.D - PMedIC Co-Director

About PNNL

PNNL is a different kind of national lab. They advance the frontiers of knowledge, taking on some of the world’s greatest science and technology challenges. Distinctive strengths in chemistry, Earth sciences, biology, and data science are central to PNNL's scientific discovery mission. They have 19 core capabilities recognized by the DOE. Each one is a powerful combination of expertise, state-of-the-art equipment, and mission-ready facilities. Core capabilities represent a collective set of skills and a body of world-leading scientific and engineering work.