Opportunity Overview
The University of Oklahoma Health Campus Office of Research Administration is accepting FY27 Cycle I applications for the Presbyterian Health Foundation (PHF) Bridge Grant Program. The mechanism is designed to strengthen OU Health Campus faculty competitiveness for extramural research funding after a recent scored-but-unfunded application.
Funding
PHF provides up to $75,000 for one year. The controlling public OU Health Campus page does not state a mandatory non-PHF match or cost-share requirement for the Bridge mechanism.
Deadline
Cycle I applications are due September 30, 2026. The controlling public page does not publish an exact submission time or time zone; applicants should verify the internal OUHC submission cutoff and submit early.
Eligibility
OU Health Campus Principal Investigators are eligible only if they have submitted an extramural application within the prior 18 months that was scored but not funded, the extramural request exceeded $750,000 in total direct costs and $200,000 in total facilities and administration costs, and the sponsor review ranked applications and provided critiques.
Application Requirements and Current Verification Limit
The official FY27 Cycle I Bridge Guidelines/Application is linked from the controlling OUHC page as a DOCX. The public page separately confirms that a previously declined PHF application may be resubmitted only once and that a resubmission must include the separate PHF Application Introduction to the Resubmission Form as a PDF. When applicable, proposals must have been submitted to the Protocol Review and Monitoring System at the time of application; cancer-related studies require the applicable Stephenson Cancer Center PRMS support letter. The linked FY27 Bridge DOCX could not be rendered through the available web retrieval path during this verification, so Atlas does not invent additional forms, signatures, budget rules, or attachment requirements not independently visible on the controlling page.
Atlas Strategic Analysis
Atlas Opportunity Score: 80/100. This is a credible Oklahoma biomedical-research bridge mechanism with meaningful one-year funding, but it is narrowly limited to OUHC investigators with a qualifying recent extramural review. N9+ Fit Score: 20/100. N9+ should not be forced into a Bridge proposal merely because the underlying research is clinical or translational. A vendor role would be realistic only if the qualifying scored-but-unfunded extramural project already includes a legitimate remote physical-examination or diagnostic-technology need and the current PHF budget rules permit that cost. Dr. Miltie/QC Healthcare is not a direct eligible applicant.
Direct-Vendor and Outreach Disposition
Dr. Miltie/QC direct application: No. Vendor fit is conditional and project-specific. No applicant outreach should occur unless a specific eligible OUHC PI, the qualifying extramural application, current PHF budget allowability, recipient identity, global same-opportunity deduplication, and Email Opt-Out have all been verified.
Contact
Program questions: VPR@ouhsc.edu. OU Health Campus Office of Research Administration, 865 Research Parkway, Suite 450, Oklahoma City, OK 73104-3609.
Verified source: OU Health Campus Office of Research Administration — PHF Funding.