{"id":28202,"date":"2014-01-23T04:53:27","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T08:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utnews.utoledo.edu\/?p=28202"},"modified":"2020-10-21T15:35:08","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T19:35:08","slug":"vice-president-for-research-appointed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/01_23_2014\/vice-president-for-research-appointed","title":{"rendered":"Vice president for research appointed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. William Messer has been involved in research for most of his professional career as a professor of pharmacology. And the attraction of helping coordinate and lead the research efforts of The University of Toledo was enhanced when he assisted Dr. Jim Trempe with an endeavor on behalf of the state to attract pharmaceutical companies to Ohio.<\/p>\n

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Messer<\/p><\/div>\u201cIt gave me a glance at the role UT plays and the role our research plays outside of the University,\u201d said Messer, who was appointed in December, following Trempe\u2019s retirement, as UT\u2019s vice president for research, pending approval by the Board of Trustees.<\/P><\/p>\n

\u201cThis institution has outstanding faculty across all disciplines, and I want to be a voice to promote research and scholarly activity and be an advocate on their behalf to help ensure access to the resources they need to create new knowledge,\u201d Messer said.<\/p>\n

UT President Lloyd Jacobs said Messer has an impressive portfolio that demonstrates his expertise and excellence when it comes to the full spectrum of activities associated with research.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhether through his own research into Alzheimer\u2019s disease, his work to develop and commercialize compounds he and his team discovered in the lab, his work advancing research through animal studies and clinical trials, or his work as a department chair helping other faculty hone their research efforts, Bill has been a research leader on campus for a long time,\u201d Jacobs said. \u201cI\u2019ve no doubt UT\u2019s research strength will continue to grow under Bill\u2019s leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n

Messer said the past four years immersed in a health-care environment following the College of Pharmacy\u2019s move to Health Science Campus provided further insight into the benefit and need for increased interaction between basic sciences and clinical research. <\/p>\n

Even as federal and state research funding sources find themselves squeezed, Messer said he sees a bright path forward for UT.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are always leaner times, but even in the last few days we\u2019ve seen some signs that Congress may be moving to reduce some of the cuts to major federal research organizations,\u201d Messer said. \u201cThe key is always to be ready and well-positioned. Strong faculty with great ideas will find ways to get funded.\u201d<\/p>\n

Messer also emphasized that successful research efforts require more than just researchers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have an outstanding staff in the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs that does a great job working with faculty in developing grant proposals, identifying funding opportunities, working out research contracts, coordinating with the Office of Grants Accounting, and handling all of the compliance issues,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr. William Messer has been named vice president for research, pending approval by the UT Board of Trustees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,42,3,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28202"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62061,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28202\/revisions\/62061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}