Researcher Hub
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Find the resources, support, and guidance you need to start, fund, and grow your research at Ohio State. Can't find what you are looking for? Click on the spyglass at the top of this page to search this site or click the Menu link to see full site contents.
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Start a Project at Ohio State
- ePA-005: Learn proposal approval and routing requirements.
- Proposal intake: Begin submitting your sponsored research proposal.
- Determine if you need IRB review: Answer a few questions for a 5-minute determination.
- Register a biosafety protocol: For work with biologicals, rDNA, or BSL-2+ materials.
- Register an animal protocol: Submit vertebrate animal protocols through e-Protocol.
Find Funding for your project
- Internal funding programs: BETHA, Accelerator, PREP, Strategic Research Travel.
- Limited submissions: Upcoming deadlines and internal competition process.
- External funding search tools: Pivot, Grants.gov, and federal agency portals.
- Connect with industry and foundation partners: Working with corporate sponsors and private foundations.
Develop your proposal
- Get help from a Research Development Specialist: Strategy support for multidisciplinary or complex proposals.
- Find institutional facts: F&A rates, fringe rates, DUNS, organizational details.
- Work with Federal Sponsors: Agency guidance, requirements and sponsor resources.
- Develop a budget: Build compliant, accurate proposal budgets.
- Find your Sponsored Program Officer: Connect with your assigned SPO.
- Submission Checklist: Required steps before proposal submission.
- Submission timeline requirements and portal: Key deadlines, routing and submission access.
Manage your award
- Personnel appointments: Adding people, percent effort, salary cap compliance.
- Purchasing: Procurement guidance for sponsored research activities.
- Cost transfers: When allowed, how to request, documentation needed.
- Award modifications: No-cost extensions, budget changes, scope changes.
- Award closeout: Final invoicing, reports, effort certification.
Conduct human subjects research
- Human research study team requirements: Required roles, training and study responsibilities.
- IRB Submission Types: Determine the correct IRB review pathway.
- IRB Turnaround Times: Estimated review timelines by submission type.
- Human Research Protection Program Policies: Policies supporting ethical human subjects research.
- Payments for research participants: Guidance for participant compensation and reimbursement.
- Huron IRB: Access and manage IRB submissions online.
Conduct research involving animals
- Animal Study Team Requirements: Training, roles and compliance requirements.
- Animal Care and Use Policies and Guidelines: Standards for ethical animal research conduct.
- Animal Facilities and Access: Facility access, orientation and housing information.
- Animal Ordering or Imports: Procedures for animal procurement and transport.
- Per Diem Rates and Fees: Current housing, care and service rates.
- e-Protocol: Submit and manage animal research protocols.
Conduct research using biological materials
- Biosafety Study Team Requirements: Required training, roles and biosafety responsibilities.
- Biosafety Policies and Guidelines: Safe handling and compliance requirements.
- Human Gene Transfer: Guidance for gene transfer research approvals.
- Biosafety Protocols and Amendments: Submit, update and manage biosafety protocols.
- Huron Safety: Access biosafety protocol management system.
Stay compliant
- Disclose conflicts of interest: Annual and per-proposal disclosure requirements. Disclose outside activities: When required, how to file.
- Screen for export controls: Before international shipping, travel, or collaboration.
- Report a concern: Animal welfare, human subjects, research misconduct.
- Complete training requirements: Federal, security and university requirements.
Manage your research data
- LabArchives: Store and organize research data securely.
- Research Data Policy:Review university requirements for research data.
- Data Use Agreements: Manage sharing and access to data.
- Federal Research Policy Guide: Public Access Requirements: Understand federal public access compliance expectations.
Grow your knowledge
- Education and Training: See what training you need based on your research, and browse optional courses to grow your career.
- Develop Your Research Leadership: Build leadership skills for research success.
- Research Commons: Access shared resources for interdisciplinary collaboration.
Commercialize your research
- Submit an Invention Disclosure: Report discoveries with commercial potential promptly.
- Commercialization Process: Learn steps for commercializing university innovations.
- Commercialization Roles and Responsibilities: Understand researcher and university commercialization responsibilities.
- Intellectual Property Policy: Review ownership and protection of inventions.
Collaborate with external partners
- Contracts for External Research Collaborations: Establish agreements with outside research partners.
- International Research Engagements: Navigate policies for global research partnerships.
- Export Controls: Ensure compliance with export control regulations.
- Conflict of Interest: Disclose potential conflicts in research activities.