DIVISIONS
Accounting/Business
Assists UGA personnel in adhering to
UGA accounting and business policies and procedures.
Business and Economic Development
Nurtures and stimulates the development of new media services businesses, software
development companies, and biotechnology companies for the benefit and expansion
of industry in Georgia.
Communications
(News & Information)
Provides information about UGA research programs and findings to key
audiences.
Compliance
- Animal Care
and Use
Oversees and coordinates research activities that involve the use of
animals.
- Biosafety
Provide guidance and assistance in the protection of faculty, staff and students from exposure to biohazardous materials, and guards against the release of biohazardous materials.
- Human
Subjects/IRB
Reviews projects that involve human subjects
to assure compliance with regulations, laws,
and policies.
- Quality Assurance
Provides oversight for research investigations that must comply
with the federal mandate of the Good Laboratory Practice
standards (GLPs).
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Internal Grants and Awards
The University of Georgia Research Foundation (UGARF) funds competitive internal grants to support promising research projects and internal awards to recognize outstanding research accomplishments and creative achievement. It also oversees national competitions with restricted candidacy, such as the Searle Scholars Program and the Beckman Young Investigators Program.
Legal Services
Advises the Office of the Vice President
for Research regarding intellectual property, research agreements,
regulatory compliance, and other legal issues related to research.
Research
Services
Supports UGA research and teaching programs through services such as
materials, analyses, repairs, laboratory services and technical advice.
Sponsored
Programs
Administers external research, instruction, public service and cooperative
extension proposals and awards.
Technology
Commercialization
Transfers
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OVPR AFFILIATES
Research
Foundation, Inc. (UGARF)
The University of Georgia Research
Foundation, Inc. (UGARF) serves the University of Georgia (UGA)
and enhances its excellence as a research institution by securing
gifts, contracts, and grants from industry, public and private
non-profits, and government agencies for the performance of
research and education. In addition to administering sponsored
research at UGA, UGARF performs the technology transfer function
for the University, taking assignment of inventions, obtaining
patents and copyright or other intellectual property protection,
and licensing inventions to the private sector in return for
royalty income to further support the research mission of the
University.
Centers
and Institutes That Report to the Vice President for Research
Institutes provide enhanced interaction to the research program by drawing
on faculty expertise from more than one department, school or academic unit.
Centers are devoted to a specialized advanced area of research.
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