James H. Zumberge Research and Innovation Fund
Zumberge Fund Awards
The James H. Zumberge Research and Innovation Fund is USC’s university-wide faculty research grant support mechanism. It awards several hundred thousand dollars each year through its annual James H. Zumberge Awards competition. The Zumberge Fund promotes the initiation of research at USC through two types of awards: Individual Awards and Interdisciplinary Awards.
Individual awards help newer faculty launch their research careers, and support research in areas with limited external funding opportunities through grants of up to $25,000. Interdisciplinary awards of up to $50,000 foster collaborative efforts among faculty from different schools and disciplines that lead to sustained interdisciplinary research programs and projects.
Recent recipients of Zumberge Interdisciplinary grants have gone on to receive:
• $5 million per year in support from the National Science Foundation’s Science and Technology Center program, to establish the Center on Dark Energy Biosphere Investigations at USC.
• More than $4 million per year from the National Institutes of Health to bring the Bioinformatics Research Network (BIRN) to USC.
• Support from Lockheed Martin Corporation to establish the Center for Quantum Computing at USC, and to bring the D-Wave quantum computer to the university.
Interdisciplinary applicants aim to leverage their Zumberge awards for follow-on grants of this scale.
Inquiries regarding Zumberge Fund programs can be directed to Christine Lavoie in the Office of Research (clavoie@usc.edu or 213-740-6709).
Multi-School INTERDISCIPLINARY Award Program
Download the 2012 Interdisciplinary Guidelines: Zumberge Interdisciplinary 2012 RFP
Large Grant Deadlines:
- Letters of Intent due January 18, 2012.
- Full Proposals due February 22, 2012.
Small Grant Deadline: Open
INDIVIDUAL Award Program
Download the 2012 Zumberge Individual guidelines: Zumberge Individual 2012 RFP
Individual Award Application Deadline: January 18, 2012.
Application Submission
To start the application process for both Interdisciplinary and Individual grant programs you will need to log in using your USC NetID and password: Begin Online Application.
Important: You may experience problems with the online application if using the browser Internet Explorer. If you experience problems, it is advisable to access the application system through a different browser, such as Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome.
For questions regarding the proposal submission process, please contact Christine Lavoie in the Office of Research (clavoie@usc.edu or 213-740-6709).
2012 Interdisciplinary Awards
David Conti, Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of USC
Sergey Nuzhdin, Molecular Biology, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Paul Thomas, Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of USC
“USC Integrated Functional Genomic Analysis Center”
Tzung Hsiai, Biomedical Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering
Yang Chai, Center for Cranial Facial Molecular Biology, Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry
Kirk Shung, Biomedical Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering
David Warburton, Pediatrics at CHLA, Keck School of Medicine of USC
“Hybrid BioFlex System for Electromechanical Coupling of Injured and Regenerating Tissues”
Thomas Lyon, Gould School of Law
Albert Rizzo, Institute for Creative Technologies
Thomas Talbot, Institute for Creative Technologies
“Investigative Child Interviewing: Learning through Interaction with a Virtual Child”
Paul Newton, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Paul Macklin, Center for Applied Molecular Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of USC
“Establishing The Center for Integrative Computational Oncology at VSOE/KSOM”
2012 Individual Awards
Sanjeev Baniwal, Department of Orthopaedics, Keck School of Medicine
“Role of Prolactin-induced protein in regualting cytoskelton dynamics and proliferation of breast cancer cells”
Todd Chang, Department of Pediatrics, Keck School of Medicine
“Multimedia in the Assessment of Clinical Decision Making Skills among Pediatric and Emergency Medicine Residents”
William Halfond, Department of Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering
“Estimating Mobile Software Power Consumption Using Program Analysis”
Houchun Hu, Department of Pediatrics, Keck School of Medicine
“Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Human Brown Adipose Tissue”
Jimi Huh, Institute for Prevention Research, Keck School of Medicine
“Ecological Contexts of Smoking among Korean American Emerging Adults”
Eve Kelland, Department of Neurology, Keck School of Medicine
“Humanizing mouse CNS stem cells: defining functional human CXCR1 expression in murine neural stem cells and their use in developing a humanized CXCR1 mouse for assessing the pathology of demyelinating diseases”
May Anne Kim-Tenser, Department of Neurology, Keck School of Medicine
“The Use of Minocycline in Intracerebral Hemorrhage”
Aaron Lauda, Department of Mathematics, Dornsife College of the Letters and Sciences
“Odd categorification of quantum groups”
Anne Schuckman, Department of Urology, Keck School of Medicine
“Human Papilloma Virus as a Novel Prognostic Factor in Penile Squamous Cell Carcinoma”
Susan Sigward, Department of Biokinesiology & Physical Therapy, Ostrow School of Dentistry
“The Development of Postural Strategies in Children”
Sheila Sofian, School of Cinematic Arts
“Truth Has Fallen”
Kelly Turner, School of Social Work
“An Experimental Examination of the Use of Standardized Clients to Develop Military-Specific Clinical Skill among MSW Students”
Previous Awardees
A list of previous recipients of the Zumberge Individual and Interdisciplinary Awards is available to download.