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Office for Research

24 Credentials
The Office for Research provides a pipeline of services across Rutgers to drive and support faculty research and strategically leads the university's economic development activities.
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Lab-to-Market: Technology Commercialization Fundamentals

Expanding therapeutic or diagnostic options is the goal of translational research. Bringing a product to market requires different skills/knowledge than the research to develop the innovation. Lab-to-Market: Technology Commercialization Fundamentals provides innovators with the understanding to translate academic discoveries into practical solutions. Seminars provide background information, while developing a HealthAdvance® application with expert guidance comprises the experiential component.
Skills
  • Commercialization Planning
  • Entrepreneurial Strategy
  • Intellectual Property Protection
+10 more skills

Advanced - Lifecycle of Research & Grants Administration

The Office for Research - Sponsored Programs Academy for Continuing Education (SPACE) offers a deep dive into pre- and post-award sponsored programs administration at Rutgers, with an added focus on budget preparation. This course is intended for managers, experienced administrators, and supervisors to develop a firm knowledge of Rutgers' policies and procedures, key internal controls, and the evolving regulatory landscape. Upon completion, participants will be able to assist with budget and proposal preparation and submission, and award management for all sponsors.

Skills
  • Written Communication
  • Team Building
  • Regulatory Compliance
+6 more skills

Fundamentals - Lifecycle of Research & Grants Administration

The Office for Research - Sponsored Programs Academy for Continuing Education (SPACE) provides an overview of the life cycle of sponsored programs with a focus on pre- and post-award administration at Rutgers University. Participants will learn the regulatory and policy underpinnings that govern sponsored programs and understand Rutgers processes and the roles and responsibilities of those involved. Upon completion participants will learn the basics of proposal submission and award management.

Skills
  • Written Communication
  • Team Building
  • Regulatory Compliance
+8 more skills

Advanced - Mouse In Vivo Techniques

Earner developed hands-on experience in advanced dosing, anesthesia, use of surgical equipment, and survival surgery techniques. They gained knowledge in aseptic technique for surgery, controlled substances, anesthesia and analgesia, pre-, peri- and postoperative care, and other pertinent topics in laboratory animal medicine. Acquired skills for handling, performing techniques, and caring for rodent laboratory animals. Developed an understanding of the principles of animal welfare and ethical treatment of animals during advanced procedures. Utilized lab animal science concepts to perform advanced hands-on techniques commonly used while working with mice including advanced dosing, anesthesia, and surgical techniques. Demonstrated skills in pre-surgical preparation, anesthetic management, surgical technique and post-operative recovery and monitoring, rodent ovariectomies and subcutaneous implant surgeries.
Skills
  • Pre-surgical Preparation
  • Anesthetic Managment
  • Surgical Technique
+3 more skills

Fundamentals – Mouse In Vivo Techniques

The Fundamentals: Mouse In Vivo Techniques badge is an intensive training course for Rutgers employees to gain a basic proficiency in lab animal rodent concepts and techniques used in research labs. Earner developed hands-on experience in mouse handling, dosing, blood collection, anesthesia, and euthanasia. Earners gained knowledge in lab animal facilities and caging, the role of the IACUC, animal behavior and health, euthanasia, and dosing calculations. They also developed an understanding of principles for working with laboratory rodents, including laboratory rodent diseases, behavior, euthanasia, and other related lecture topics.
Skills
  • Rodent Laboratory Animals
  • Animal Welfare
  • Ethical Treatment of Animals
+3 more skills

Fundamentals – Rat In Vivo Techniques

The Fundamentals: Rat In Vivo Techniques badge is an intensive training course for Rutgers employees to gain basic proficiency in lab animal rodent concepts and techniques used in research labs. Earner developed hands-on experience in rat handling, dosing, blood collection, anesthesia, and euthanasia. They also learned about lab animal facilities and caging, the role of the IACUC, animal behavior, health, euthanasia, and dosing calculations.
Skills
  • Handling and caring for rodent laboratory animals (rats)
  • Animal Welfare
  • Ethical Treatment of Animals

Advanced – Rat In Vivo Techniques

Earner developed hands-on experience in advanced dosing, anesthesia, use of surgical equipment, and survival surgery techniques. They gained knowledge in aseptic technique for surgery, controlled substances, anesthesia and analgesia, pre-, peri- and postoperative care, and other pertinent topics in laboratory animal medicine.
Skills
  • Laboratory Animal Medicine
  • Animal Welfare
  • Ethical Treatment
+3 more skills

In Vivo Techniques Academic Course

The in vivo lab animal techniques (IVT) is an intensive EBE training course for Rutgers students to gain proficiency in lab animal rodent concepts and techniques used in research labs. Earner developed hands-on expertise and didactic knowledge in the following topics: • Compassion fatigue, introduction to animal health, identification of signs of disease/distress, common animal health concerns-clinical signs. • Lab animal diseases, health surveillance • Animal handling techniques, animal behavior • Transgenic animals, breeding colony management, genotyping methods, identification • Colony rooms, husbandry requirements and discussion of biosecurity levels (BSL3 practices), gnotobiotics, GLP, IACUC. • Dosing techniques, dosing calculations • Blood collection techniques • Euthanasia and necropsy • Analgesia and anesthesia, controlled substances. • Common principles of surgery, surgical prep, peri-operative monitoring, recovery, and post-operative care; suture patterns and proficiency • Aseptic surgical techniques-1 (Non-survival ovariectomy) • Aseptic surgical techniques-2 (Survival subcutaneous implant)
Skills
  • Animal Welfare
  • 3Rs Research Principles
  • Animal Handling (Rats and Mice)
+3 more skills

SPACE Fundamentals Core

The Office for Research - Sponsored Programs Academy for Continuing Education (SPACE)

The Fundamentals Core courses provide a basic overview of the Office for Research Administration, its various components and the services each provides to the university research administration community—specifically the initial stages of the lifecycle of sponsored programs. Information covered includes pre-award, post-award, and contracts administration. These instructor-led courses are offered to assist newly hired employees, and existing staff to learn the basics about conducting research at Rutgers.

SPACE101 Welcome to the Office for Research

Rutgers’ threefold mission includes advancing research, so it is important to understand the research support functional areas within the Office for Research. The first part of this session will provide an overview of the Office for Research (OFR) and the organization’s role in providing services to the University’s research community. In the second segment, each functional support area will share its expertise.

Objectives: Experience an overview of the functional support research areas:

  • Research & Sponsored Programs (RSP) will provide an overview of proposal basics, budget preparation, compliance, negotiation, and non-financial requirements.

  • Research Financial Services (RFS) will provide an overview of central financial accounting functions and post-award administration support services for the university’s sponsored programs and other restricted funds, including project reconciliations, award specifics, closeouts, effort certification, and cost transfers.

  • Research Contract Services, a pre-award office, provides the research community expert and expeditious contract management services that grow Rutgers’ research enterprise.

  • Other topics briefly covered are research compliance; corporate engagement; innovation and technology.

SPACE110 Fundamentals of Life Cycle of Sponsored Programs - Pre-Award Administration

The grant administration module provides essential knowledge for understanding the grant submission process, award setup, and various components of grant administration. Participants will explore proposal basics, compliance, and non-financial requirements.

Objectives:

  • Understand how to navigate through the proposal submission process in concert with using the Uniform Guidance, Sponsor requirements and Rutgers policies. 

  • Obtain a clear picture of the RSP Pre Award vs the PI / Department Administrators roles and responsibilities.

  • Discuss basic considerations for the development of a reasonable, allowable and allocatable budget for proposal purposes

  • Demonstrate an understanding of the various administrative grant components

 

SPACE120 Fundamentals of Life Cycle of Sponsored Programs - RFS/Post-Award Administration

This module offers an overview of the post-award lifecycle, emphasizing best practices for grants and contracts management in alignment with University policy and the Uniform Guidance.

Objectives:

  • Understand the post-award process.

  • Apply best practices for managing grants and contracts.

  • Comply with University policies and the Uniform Guidance.

  • Successfully administer grants, including project reconciliations, award specifics, closeouts, effort certification, and cost transfers.

 

SPACE130 Fundamentals of Life Cycle of Sponsored Programs- Research Contracts

As Rutgers’ threefold mission includes advancing research, it is important to understand the research support functional areas within the Office for Research. Research Contract Services is one such resource.  Research Contract Services, a pre-award office, provides the research community expert and expeditious contract management services that grow Rutgers’ research enterprise.  This course provides a detailed overview of the Research Contracts Services’ services, how to engage with this team, the elements of a typical research contract as well as some basic contract law information.

Objectives:

  • Gain Understanding of Rutgers’ sponsored program and research-related contract management services process: when and how to engage Research Contract Services (RCS) through the Research Administration and Proposal Submission System (RAPSS).

  • Demonstrate basic understanding of different types of sponsored program and research-related agreements.

  • Understand the basics of RCS’ contract management process and how to leverage RAPSS as a communications tool.

SPACE201

The Office for Research - Sponsored Programs Academy for Continuing Education (SPACE)

SPACE201 NIH Proposal Budget Preparation

This module is tailored for new faculty and staff engaged in preparing grant proposals for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Participants will delve into the intricacies of proposal budgets, ensuring compliance with NIH guidelines and specific announcement criteria.

Objectives:

  • Explore the purpose and significance of proposal budgets.

  • Recognize how budgets serve as estimates for project costs and resource allocation.

  • Learn about NIH-specific requirements for budget preparation.

  • Identify allowable costs and key components within an NIH proposal budget.

  • Understanding and translating the internal RU Budget template to the NIH budget forms.

  • Developing the corresponding Budget Justification.

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