Research and Sponsored Programs

Research Centers and Institutes

The following list includes those research-oriented centers or institutes that have been reviewed and approved by the UToledo Research Council or are currently under review.

Name of Center or Institute	Director
The Asian Studies Institute	An Chung Cheng
Center for Diabetes and Endocrine Research (CeDER)	Beata Lecka-Czernik
Center for Drug Design and Development (CD3)	Isaac Schiefer
Center for Geographic Information Sciences and Applied Geographics (GISAG)	Kevin Czajkowski
Center for Hypertension and Precision Medicine -(CHPM)	Bina Joe
The University of Toledo Human Trafficking Institute	Celia Williamson
Interdisciplinary Health Research Center	Shipra Singh
Jack Ford Urban Affairs Center (JFUAC)	Dan Hammel
Institute for Applied Engineering Research (IAER)	Mohammad Elahinia
The Lake Erie Center	Thomas Bridgeman
Legal Institute of the Great Lakes	Evan Zoldan
Northwest Ohio Cancer Research Institute (NOCRI)	Jian-Ting Zhang
Plant Science Research Center (PSRC)	Scott Heckathorn
Polymer Institute	Joseph Lawrence
Ritter Astrophysics Research Center - Ritter Planetarium & Brooks Observatory	JD Smith
Wright Center for Photovoltaics Innovation and Commercialization (PVIC)	Michael Heben

An annual report is required each year by the 15th of July. The report template is available here.
Completed annual reports should be email to Dawn Miller at Dawn.Miller4@UToledo.edu.
Centers undergoing review should use the self-study template provided here.