Research at NC State

NSA Meeting28 June 2010

Terri L. LomaxVice Chancellor for Research

Welcome to Raleigh

You are here.

#1 Most Wired City in U.S.

#1 Best Quality of Life in U.S.

#3 Most Innovative City in U.S.

#4 Most Patents per Capita in U.S.

#4 Most High Tech & Sciences Jobs in U.S.

Tech Climate in Raleigh, NC

#1 Most Wired CityMetrics include broadband penetration, broadband access

&wi-fi hot spots. Forbes, March 2010

Sprint Nextel recently launched its “4G” next-generation mobile broadband in

Raleigh months before Boston, New York, and Washington, D.C.

Innovation Climate in Raleigh, NC

#1 Best Quality of Life in U.S.(No.2 Washington, DC; No. 3 Minneapolis-St. Paul)

Portfolio.com/bizjournals

#3 Most Innovative U.S. City(No.1 Silicon Valley; No. 2 Austin, Texas)

Metrics include patents per person, venture capital investment, & ratio of high-tech, science and creative jobs. Forbes, May 2010.

#4 in Patents per Capita & High Tech & Sciences Jobs

Forbes, May 2010.

Research Triangle Knowledge Capital

Expansion: Raleigh’s metropolitan population has increased by 37% since 2000 (largest expansion in nation)

High-Level Jobs: 44% of workforce hold management or professional positions

(fourth highest percentage in nation)

Educated Work Force: 41% of adults hold bachelor’s degrees (sixth highest percentage in nation)

Research University Cluster: NC State, UNC Chapel Hill, Duke University, RTI International

NC State Knowledge Capital

33,815 students [23,010 undergrads; 7,991 grad students;

2,814 non-degree students]

~ 8,000 graduate students representing 86 countries

>220 graduate degrees offered [Master’s, Ph.D., Ed.D, DVM]

2,078 faculty members [19 National Academy Members]

Largest four-year institution in North Carolina

NC State Knowledge Capital

NC State consists of 10 schools and colleges:College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

College of Design

College of Education

College of Engineering

College of Humanities and Social Sciences• School of Public and International Affairs

College of Management

College of Natural Resources

College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences

College of Textiles

College of Veterinary Medicine

Inter-disciplinary Centers & Institutes: 57

America’s Best Graduate Schools

US News & World Report 2010 national rankings:

5th in Veterinary Medicine

7th Nuclear Engineering

9thin Biological/Agricultural Engineering

12th in Statistics

Source: U.S. News & World Report: America's Best Graduate Schools; April 2010

Research Impact Snapshot

$365M annual research expenditures (FY09)

#7 nationally for industry funded researchamong all universities w/o medical schools

679 U.S. Patents

676 International Patents

>110 better world productsfrom lab to market

72 start-up companiesattracting >$750M investment and 3,000 jobs

137 intellectual property disclosuressubmitted by faculty in FY09 (IP pipeline)

Today’s complex issues call for multidisciplinary approaches and team science.

Building teams of scientists & scholars around critical issues = Strategic Research Areas

Collaboration and Team Science

Strategic Research Areas at NC State

Health & Well-Being

Energy &Environment

Educational Innovation

Safety & Security

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University Collaborations

Research Triangle Solar Fuels Institute

A groundbreaking partnership between NC State, Duke University, UNC Chapel Hill,and Research

Triangle Institute (RTI) will make the Triangle area the leading scientific and technical resource in the field of solar fuels.

This collaboration brings an unparalleled critical massof science, engineering and translational expertise

toward developing scalable and sustainable productionof hydrocarbon fuel from sunlight.

University Collaborations

Joint NC State / UNC Chapel HillDepartment of Biomedical Engineering

Capitalizing on NC State’s engineering legacy and Chapel Hill’s School of Medicine, the Joint Dept. of

Biomedical Engineering links these disciplines together. Students and researchers engaged in this department

are immersed in the best of both worlds.

Joint MS and PhD degrees are offered on both campuses.

Takes advantage of North Carolina's unique data sources, evolving advanced analytics capability, and its tested and proven Cloud Computing infrastructure (NC State’s VCL).

Research Collaboration - NCB PreparedNC State, UNC-Chapel Hill, SAS, and other government and corporate partners address the urgent need for faster recognition and response to biological diseases and threats by optimizing the ability to accurately detect and quickly analyze biological hazards to ensure public health and safety.

Initial funding $5M from Department of Homeland Security

Uses multiple source data – human, animal, environmental – and advanced systems infrastructure and analytics to enable emergency responders while simultaneously coordinating information up through state and federal levels.

Hospitals sharing emergency

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Research Collaboration - NCB Prepared

NCB Prepared – Process Flow

Advanced Computing Innovations Lab by RENCI

The Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) is a major collaborative venture ofNC

State, Duke, and Chapel Hill.

http://www.renci.org/

BEN, the Breakable Experimental Network, a dark fiber, experimental network test bed allows researchers to push the

limits of networking technology unencumbered by the day-to-day requirements of a production network.

BEN on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJhccA7zVdc&feature=youtube_gdata

Jointly Held Patents

How often does collaborative research between NC State andour neighbor universities culminate in issued U.S. patents?

US Patent and Trademark Office reports:

22 jointly held patents between NC State &UNC Chapel Hill ranging from methods to create polymers in carbon dioxide, to spin coating

methods, to compositions for protecting civil infrastructure

4 jointly held patents between NC State &Dukefor methodsof combating infectious diseases to boronated compounds

17 jointly held patents between UNC Chapel Hill &Dukefor the treatment of tumors and therapeutic effectiveness

Acceleration Tool for Innovation Partnerships

REACH NCResearch, Engagement And Capabilities Hub

Working with NC partners including system-wide research universities, NC State is leading an effort to launch an online,searchable intelligent system that provides opportunities to

connect with potential collaborators through researcher profiles, projects, publications, and experts in North Carolina.

Acceleration Tool for Innovation Partnerships

Acceleration Tool for Innovation Partnerships

Questions?

NSA Meeting28 June 2010

Terri L. LomaxVice Chancellor for Research

Research Collaboration - NCB Prepared

NCBP Process: Value Proposition

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NC DETECT Data VolumeHospital Emergency Departments

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NC DETECT as a Model for the Nation

Statewide early event detection - 90% of EDs reporting every 12 hours

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Hospital ED Data Shared with BioSense

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