Virginia Research Investment Fund
About the VRIF
The Virginia Research Investment Fund, or VRIF, was established in 2016 as part of the GO Virginia initiative to foster economic development and job creation through competitive grants that supported innovative and collaborative research, development, and commercialization efforts among and between public institutions of higher education and the private sector. During its four-year tenure, the VRIF was administered by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) and overseen by the Virginia Research Investment Committee (VRIC). The VRIC awarded $5.5 million in support of five projects, with two projects totaling $3M awarded in FY2020. Three Virginia public institutions of higher education lead the projects, which include collaborators from higher ed, the private sector, and government.
Questions regarding the legacy VRIF program can be directed to ccf@cit.org.
VRIF Award Recipients
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Virginia Tech
Machine Learning for Cyber Awareness and Defense PI: Timothy O'Shea Partner: DeepSig Award Amount: $1,181,030 Date Awarded: January 2018 |
University of Virginia
Eliminating the Neurocognitive Consequences of Diabetes: the Virginia Hypoglycemia Safety Project PI: Sue Brown Award Amount: $255,855 Date Awarded: January 2018 |
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Virginia Tech
Brain Cancer Treatment with High-Frequency Electroporation PI: Rafael Davalos Partners: University of Virginia / VoltlMed Award Amount: $1,111,758 Date Awarded: January 2018 |
Old Dominion University
The Virginia SmallSat Data Consortium PI: David Bowles (orig. Saikou Diallo) Co-PI: Jonathan Black Partner: Virginia Tech Award Amount: $1,500,000 Date Awarded: August 2019 |
Virginia Tech
Commonwealth Center of Innovation
for Autonomous Systems (C2IAS)
PI: Jon Greene
Co-PI: Yainnis Papelis
Partner: Old Dominion University
Award Amount: $1,499,991
Date Awarded: August 2019
Commonwealth Center of Innovation
for Autonomous Systems (C2IAS)
PI: Jon Greene
Co-PI: Yainnis Papelis
Partner: Old Dominion University
Award Amount: $1,499,991
Date Awarded: August 2019
VRIF Annual Report
View VRIF Annual Reports submitted each fall to the General Assembly and Administration.
