Alan Rudolph Vice President for ResearchColorado State University

The Office of the Vice President for Research enables the University, its faculty, staff and students to emerge as a world-class research institution complementing our learning, service and outreach missions.

$375MResearch Expenditures

+10.8%

Federal Awards:$257 million

+3.9%

Awards for New Projects: $158 million

+3.3%

Industry Proposals Sent

$39.3 million+36.4%

Overall Awards:$339 million

+7.8%

Amy CharkowskiAgricultural Sciences

Brian Foy, Vector

Research

Kristin Buchanan, Physics

Center for Management of Military Lands

James HurrellClimate ScientistScott Chair

Nodal Points of Strategic Research Alignmentand Investments: Catalyzing Impact

Catalyst for Innovative Partnerships Program, (2015- present)$2.4M invested – RAO supported

•Smart Village Microgrids•Partnership for Air Quality, Climate and Health

Cluster Hires (2015-2018)MicrobiomePartnership for Air Quality, Climate and HealthCenter for Healthy Aging

Microbiome Cluster Hireanalyzing communities of microorganisms and the processes that connect them

Rural Wealth Creation: Exploring Food Systems-Led Development Strategies

PIs: Dr. Michael Carolan and Dr. Becca Jablonksi

Could improving the American food system allow for workers in rural America to strengthen their economies and increase their capital? Would increases in

capital lead to lower poverty rates in these areas?

TEAM VISION – This CIP project seeks to:• Understand how food system strategies can contribute to social, cultural, human,

political, physical, natural, and financial capital in rural communities.• Promote CSU as the leader in transdisciplinary, science-based research on the role

of food systems led rural development strategies.

Objectives: Moving from Knowledge to Impact1. Depict the Denver and provisioning producer food system as a model, incorporating

rural wealth creation framework2. Solicit funding and partnership to develop a Center/Institute3. Engage stakeholders in communicating and verifying modeling efforts, as well as

how results help to frame opportunities and tradeoffs to support food systems led rural wealth creation

Rural Wealth Creation: Exploring Food Systems-Led Development Strategies

Highlights and Accomplishments• FFAR Award: $2M Tipping Points grant to connect food security and access efforts with the

agri-business, naturals resources, and economic development communities.• Denver’s Community Food Systems Data & Outreach Program Administrator: Funded by

the team. Focus on facilitating relationships with external stakeholders around emerging market opportunities in the Denver metro area due to policy changes.

• Case Studies: Identification, recruitment, and convening of 4 case studies with provisioning producer communities and stakeholders in Denver

• Food Policy/Programing Efforts: Denver Public Health & Environment, Denver Food Vision, National Western Center, Colorado Blueprint of Food and Agriculture

• Commodity Specific Retreat (Dec 2018): Convening of growers, buyers, and policymakers to discuss how market opportunities in the Denver Metro area can support specialty crop industries in the San Luis Valley and Western Slope.

• Internal Team Assembly: 27 members, representing 13 disciplines/units• External Team Assembly:

Connecting CSU Discoveries to Global Impacts

Making Greater Impact Through Translational and Transactional Discoveries

2018 Tech Transfer Statistics:•112 Invention Disclosures (up from 101)•36 License Agreements (down from 44)•124 Patent Applications (down from 164)•5 Start Ups (down from 6)•$1.83M in License Revenue (down from $3.06M)•53 Issued Patents (down from 66)

Areas of Focused Transaction Alignment with CSU/CSURF strategic investments:

MicrobiomeRegenerative Medicine

Infectious Disease CountermeasuresGene Editing

Virtual and Augmented RealityDiagnostics

Faculty Engagement

Gene Editor CRISPR

Building New Coalitions in Ag Biosecurity to Protect Colorado & the US Agricultural Base

Visit scheduled Sep 17

Next Coalition Meeting:Texas A&M

Industry and International Ag Biosecurity Focus

VICE PRESIDENT FOR RESEARCH

Our Consortia is Poised to Accelerate and Enhance Impact in Our National Priority for BioDefense

• Published report on Ag Biodefense in Oct 2017 which pointed to need for Ag related stockpiling to thwart $B losses

• Interagency strategy published Sep 18, 2018

• Current Farm Bill focus on AgDefense (Vaccine bank, NAHLN, EDEN)

• New 5 land grant consortia formed to provide solutions that link research to response with assets that no one of us can achieve

VICE PRESIDENT FOR RESEARCH

Themes: Agility and Resiliency• From rapid ID to response through countermeasure production and stockpiling

• Sustainable threat prioritization from known threats (some not yet seen in US), emerging and unknown

• Communication, engagement and outreach through land grant heritages

Infectious Disease Research CenterOffice of Vice President for Research

Thank you!