About - Research and Innovation - Virginia Commonwealth University

At the VCU Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation, our mission is to foster transformative research, discovery and innovation at Virginia Commonwealth University through excellence in service.

We partner with faculty in all schools and departments as they seek funding, plan studies, establish collaborations, calculate budgets, submit grant applications, negotiate industry contracts, and secure patents and licensing agreements.

Our commitment to supporting and elevating the research community at VCU has resulted in record levels of sponsored research and has placed VCU among the nation’s premier public research universities.

Through our passion for discovery and willingness to take on challenges, we continue to advance the work that matters most and position the university as a national leader in research, innovation, creativity and scholarship.

VCU Research and Innovation by the numbers

Vice President

Meet P. Srirama Rao, Ph.D., VCU’s Vice President for Research and Innovation.

Leadership

Our leadership team is committed to strengthening VCU’s research infrastructure.

Staff directory

Our skilled staff looks forward to helping you in all aspects of the research process.

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VCU Strategic Research Priorities Plan

VCU is uniquely positioned to make transdisciplinary breakthroughs by engaging with our surrounding innovative and entrepreneurial ecosystem, leading to profound impacts that reverberate across the region, state, nation and globe.

Learn more about the VCU Strategic Research Priorities Plan

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