FEBRUARY 2019

SC EPSCoR/IDeA South Carolina Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research and Institutional Development Awards

$ + 20 million 200 faculty hired NSF EPSCoR RII Track-1 at institutions state-wide since Award, Materials Assembly 1995 with 11 MORE to be hired and Design Excellence in through MADE in SC by 2022 South Carolina (MADE in SC) for materials science research, education and development

> 35 South Carolina-based, American-owned SMALL BUSINESSES can receive seed funding for SBIR/STTR by 2022

$ >$ 4.2 million 2.1 400+ faculty members

for state-of-the-art million and students participated in equipment to be in SEED state-wide professional purchased through MADE FUNDING to development opportunities in SC by 2022 – be awarded in 2018 alone accessible by all in our state by SC faculty members 2022 Overall EPSCoR/IDeA Funding $ Amount (Millions) District 1 College of Charleston $ 9.3 Medical University of SC 112.5 UofSC Beaufort 2.4 undergrad and grad District 2 UofSC Aiken 1.1 320 students to receive District 3 Clemson University 60.9 funded training in materials Presbyterian College 0.8 science and 35 high school District 4 Converse College 0.6 STEM teachers to receive Furman University 8.4 research training by 2022 District 5 Winthrop University 7.1 District 6 Claflin University 6.5 South Carolina State University 2.9 University of South Carolina 112.8 Voorhees College 0.1 District 7 Coastal Carolina University 0.7 Francis Marion University 2.2 Other South Carolina instituions recevied subawards from those listed in the table. Total amount shows EPSCoR and IDeA funding and $ co-funding since 2006. Total: 328.3 SC EPSCoR/IDeA February 2019

What are EPSCoR Impact on South Carolina and IDeA? NSF hybrid energy storage devices and Established Program to Stimulate Drs. Ehsan systems for space applications” Competitive Research and Mousavi Institutional Development Awards (EPSCoR/IDeA) programs are merit- (Clemson) based, competitive, authorized and Shuo programs operating within five Xiao (UofSC) federal agencies (NSF, NIH, DOE, received NSF EPSCoR Track-4 USDA, and NASA) across 25 states Research Fellows Program awards. and three US territories, including South Carolina. These programs Drs. Christopher McMahan and USDA invest in research that will lead to Rajandeep Sekton (Clemson), Dr. Matthew Rutter (College of became co-PIs on a new technologies, as well as train NSF EPSCoR Charleston) received a $384,812 the future science and engineering Track-2 four-year, $6 million, multi- grant for his project, “Teaching workforce during a time of jurisdictional collaborative grant with plant and agricultural phenomics increasing global competitiveness Kentucky and Idaho. through unPAK (undergraduates and economic challenges. phenotyping Arabidopsis 11 NSF Faculty Early Career knockouts) (FACT REEU).” Development Program (CAREER) awards made to faculty from In SC, NIH-funded IDeA Clemson and UofSC totaling Programs are represented by: $3.4 million with $1.3 million cofounded by NSF EPSCoR. 10 NIH Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE): Strengthen biomedical research DOE infrastructure (~$100 million Dr. Brian combined over five years). The Powell COBRE Stroke (Clemson) SBIR/STTR Recovery is the PI of In 2018, 4 South Carolina-based, Research Center the project American-owned, for-profit small at the Medical “Radio- businesses received SC EPSCoR University of nuclide Phase-0 Program $6,000 seed South Carolina is Waste Disposal: Development grants. Program awards are for small a collaboration of Multi-scale Experimental and businesses seeking funding for their of medicine, Modeling Capabilities” which innovative ideas from federal SBIR/ rehabilitation, is funded as a DOE EPSCoR STTR programs. and engineering Implementation Award. This is a experts working $7.25 million, five-year award for to understand the research into finding the safest impact of stroke on brain function. ways of storing nuclear waste. As These studies will lead to better principal investigator on the grant, post-stroke therapy and improve Powell is leading a team of more quality of life for survivors. than 20 researchers from across the state including collaborators at the Resulting from research at UofSC, SC IDeA Network of Biomedical UofSC and SC State University. CarboNix LLC is commercializing a Research Excellence (SC INBRE): technology that removes household Program office oversees NIH $18.2 allergens that trigger allergies and million, five-year renewable grant NASA asthma. The company leveraged focusing on biomedical research at Dr. Apparao Rao (Clemson) four SC EPSCoR/IDeA grants into statewide network of 13 member received a $375,000 grant for his $1.24 million in federal SBIR and 4 outreach institutions. project, “Nanomaterials-based awards from the NIH.

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