ORS Departments
Pre-Award Support: Provides proposal and budget development support services to faculty and staff necessary to identify, develop, and submit grant and contract applications and administers internal funding opportunities (UMRB, FRG, Travel Grants).
Post-Award Administration Support: Provides fiscal support necessary to responsibly manage the funds awarded, consistent with University policy, requirements of funding sources, and federal regulations.
Research Protections: Ensures and documents research and services that are conducted in accordance with the highest regard for ethical standards and conform to federal, state, local and institutional regulatory practices including, but not limited to, protection of human and animal subjects, hazardous materials, Biosafety, HIPAA, and time/effort reporting (A-21).
Research Facilities: Operates and supports university research facilities such as the Laboratory Animal Centers and Transgenic Core Facility. It also serves as an institutional coordinating unit for university core facilities housed in the various academic units.
Public Service Programs: Supports externally funded projects devoted to public services, such as economic development and the transfer of research findings related to substance abuse to treatment and policy communities.
Intellectual Property Management : Serves as the focal point for entrepreneurship, economic development, technology transfer and technology commercialization within the University of Missouri-Kansas City
Life Science Research: The quest to understand the human body is the burden and the joy of life sciences researchers. At the University of Missouri-Kansas City, that discovery takes several forms: basic bench science, translational research, clinical research, health outcomes research, and the technology that enables and advances scientists' work.