The PDO team works alongside faculty members in the School of Medicine as strategic partners to secure funding and advance their transformative research ideas.
Based in the School of Medicine Research Office, we are uniquely positioned to help Stanford Medicine research teams pursue interdisciplinary and cross-cutting funding opportunities. We offer expert consultation across all areas of proposal development to strengthen funding and research outcomes—and we lead initiatives that advance institutional competitiveness and drive strategic research growth.
proposals submitted
We’ve provided support to over 350 proposals submitted by faculty within the School of Medicine.
faculty supported
We’ve assisted over 200 faculty members from across 33 departments within the university.
in funded projects
We’ve helped faculty secure over $1 billion in research funding.
PDO supports Stanford in securing funding from the CIRCLE program at ARPA-H for $41 million.
PDO supports Stanford in securing $25 million in funding from NIH to create a center focused on exploring how AI can help people with dementia.
Stanford researchers have received $20 million from NSF to build a network of AI-enabled, remotely operated laboratories.
[The PDO's] guidance on all aspects of the grant, including the integration across the projects and cores for a P01, graphics and, the clarity of the synergy and the presentation was helpful. I appreciated too, how well they knew the NIH guidelines.”
Melissa L. Bondy, Ph.D.
PI of NCI P01 “CONVERGE: Consortium for the Epidemiologic, Mechanistic, and Clinical CONVERGence in MASLD and GI Cancer Prevention”
PDO hosted an in-person workshop on the ARPA-H Funding Mechanisms. Program Manager, Dr. Ryan Spitler and PDO Director, Dr. Kiran Kocherlakota, both shared valuable insights into ARPA-H and how to be successful at securing funding.
