RAPTIC Program Overview and History
RAPTIC
RAPTIC supports faculty doing innovative research in the medical, health or biomedical fields.
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“I could not have gotten this intramural research award had I not participated in RAPTIC.”
History of RAPTIC
A Brief Timeline
RAPTIC Creation
2022
RAPTIC was created by Kristy Townsend, Ph.D., College of Medicine. RAPTIC was developed to support access in research and IP/commercialization work, by providing a framework of: 1) peer-trained research coaches to enable support and accountability that accelerates progress and success for faculty research programs, and 2) custom learning content generated with RAPTIC and its partners to fill gaps in research, innovation, IP and commercialization trainings and resource dissemination.
Pilot Cohort
2023-2024
RAPTIC ran two pilot cohorts in 2023 and 2024 with participant from the College of Medicine and Nationwide Children's Hospital with the co-leadership of Dr. Carolyn Presley. Two participants from the pilot cohort credited the coaching and skills gained through RAPTIC as instrumental in securing their first intramural funding awards.
Expansion of Program
2025
RAPTIC is expanding its reach to include all faculty and research teams working in health, medicine, and biomedical fields across the university. In 2025, new strategic partnerships were established with the Clinical and Translational Science Institute (Dr. Julie Johnson), Health Science Innovation (HSI)/ERIK (Dr. Paco Herson), The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, and other key collaborators. Five colleges officially joined as partners this year: the College of Medicine, College of Engineering, College of Veterinary Medicine, College of Pharmacy and the College of Education and Human Development.
“I would have never known I had a product to commercialize if I hadn’t done RAPTIC, now I am teaching full professors that they have IP of their own to protect that they weren’t aware of, and I connected them to a license officer.”
RAPTIC Leadership and Coaches
RAPTIC Advisors
Dr. Paco Herson, Associate Vice President for Health Sciences Innovation
Dr. Julie Johnson, Director, Clinical and Translational Science Institute
Program Support from the following:
- Clinical and Translational Science Institute
- Health Sciences Innovation
- College of Medicine
- College of Education and Human Ecology
- College of Engineering
- College of Pharmacy
- College of Veterinary Medicine