Research Collaboration

The University of South Carolina partners with universities around the state and world, government and nonprofit organizations devoted to technology and economic development, health consortiums, and international businesses and energy institutions.

Representative of some of these relationships is a joint partnership with the Scripps Research Institute in LaJolla, Calif., to operate the W.M. Keck Open Laboratory for Bionanoparticle Technology Discovery and Development at South Carolina’s NanoCenter. Research topics include tissue engineering, sensing, drug delivery, and vaccine manufacturing.

Clemson and MUSC
Members of Health Sciences South Carolina and University partners on 11 South Carolina Centers of Economic Excellence

EngenuitySC
Public-private partnership based in Columbia that nurtures knowledge-based economy and encourages the commercialization of ideas and technology from academic research

Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy, Freiburg, Germany
Partner for fuel cells research, hydrogen storage, hydrogen production, chemical-energy conversion, electrochemical storage devices

Korean Institute of Energy Research
Partner in fuel cell and energy research; co-host of 2007 Korea-USA Fuel Cell Symposium

Health Sciences South Carolina
Healthcare and economic consortium comprised of University of South Carolina, two other academic institutions, and three healthcare systems

National Science Foundation
Has granted University researchers more than $66 million July 1, 2001-January 31, 2007

NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Fuel Cells
In the nation’s only such center, University’s 15 partners include General Motors, Boeing, BASF, John Deere, and LG Electronics

Palmetto Health
Partners with School of Medicine and houses on its Richland campus six University locations that include cancer research laboratories

Savannah River National Laboratory
U.S. Department of Energy applied R&D laboratory specializing in hydrogen storage

SC Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Alliance
Public-private collaborative advancing commercialization of technologies

SC Launch!
Works with research universities to fund advanced technology startup companies

SC Research Authority
Public, non-profit corporation helps commercialize technologies and administers the Greater Columbia Fuel Cell Challenge

Siemens
Working jointly with German-based company on development of a prototype hydrogen-fueled diesel engine

South Carolina state government
Millions in research-funding legislation with research campus bond act, centers of economic excellence, venture capital financing act

University Technology Incubator
Has helped support more than 50 startup companies that raised $29 million and created nearly 500 jobs