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Office of the Vice Provost for Research

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Providing support services for Penn's stellar investigators and research facilities

Managing the University’s investment in novel research initiatives

Overseeing the commercial development of Penn's research discoveries in partnership with external collaborators

Ensuring the integrity of Penn's sponsored research
LabArchives Research Notebooks now available!

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Penn now offers the LabArchives Electronic Research Notebook system to researchers, instructors, and students for free.

It gives you access to a modern, secure, cloud-based method of managing your lab data.

Electronic Research Notebooks facilitate reproducibility, collaboration, compliance, and data management.

With features designed specifically for researchers, Penn's offers the software to you at no cost!

Within the OVPR

PCI
Penn Center for Innovation: Translating Penn discoveries and ideas into new products and businesses for the benefit of society.

IRB
Institutional Review Board: IRB promotes and protects the welfare of human research participants by reviewing and approving all human subject research.

RIO
Research Integrity Office: Management of the University’s Research-related Financial Conflicts of Interest Program and oversight of the Office’s commitment to Responsible Conduct of Research and Research Integrity.

EHRS
Environmental Health and Radiation Safety: Ensuring health, safety, and environmental protection in teaching, research, and healthcare programs and facilities.

OAW
Office of Animal Welfare: comprehensive support and guidance to the animal research community on matters related to protocol development and regulatory compliance.

ULAR
University Laboratory Animal Resources: A campus-wide research service organization that provides daily animal husbandry, veterinary care and diagnostic services.

ORS
Office of Research Services: Managing externally sponsored research projects through the pre-award and post-award processes.

Advisory Committees
Formulating, implementing and ensuring compliance of all research policies.

Vice Provost for Research
Dawn Bonnell shapes policy and advances administrative initiatives for the University’s $900+ million research enterprise

LabArchives for Researchers

The modern, cloud-based, secure Electronic Research Notebook system is now available for free to Penn researchers.

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University Research Foundation Awardees

The Vice Provost for Research has awarded over $1,000,000 in grants to Penn researchers who applied in the Fall of 2017, including 28 grants to SAS.

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Funding & Fellowships

Limited Submissions
The OVPR coordinates the selection process for grant competitions in instances where a limited number of applications are accepted.

University Research Foundation
An internal funding program that offers close to $1 million twice a year in four disciplinary areas of study

Postdoctoral Diversity Fellowships
A competitive program whose goal is to increase the diversity of the community of scholars devoted to academic research.

Sponsored Programs Information Network
A funding opportunity database

Centers & Institutes

The University’s integrated campus facilitates unique investigative collaborations across disciplines and research at Penn’s Centers and Institutes represent some of the most cutting edge investigations taking place in the world today. A searchable database of the University’s many Centers and Institutes is to the left. On behalf of the Provost, the Vice Provost for Research oversees the 8 University-wide Centers & Institutes featured below.

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Featured Institutes

Institute for Regenerative Medicine

Center for Public Health Intiatives

Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter

Mahoney Institute for Neurological Sciences

Center for Cognitive Neuroscience

Center for Neuroscience and Society

Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics

Penn Institute for Urban Research

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Regulatory Topics

FCOI
Penn’s research-related financial conflicts of interest policy.

Training
Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) and other research related training.

Integrity & RCR
Responsible Conduct of Research as mandated by the National Institutes of Health.

Policies
Downloads and links to various Penn compliance policies.

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Penn Research

Penn receives over 5800 awards on an annual basis. The University is consistently ranked as one of the largest recipients of funding from the National Institutes of Health and federal support in total accounts for 85 percent of sponsored program support.

Penn also receives valuable support from a host of other sponsors, including the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the City of Philadelphia, foundations, associations, and industry partners.

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School of Arts & Sciences
School of Dental Medicine
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School of Veterinary Medicine
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University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
19104-6303 USA

TEL: 215-898-7236
FAX: 215-573-2108

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Within the OVPR

PCI

IRB

RIO

EHRS

OAW

ULAR

ORS

Advisory Committees

Vice Provost for Research

LabArchives for Researchers

University Research Foundation Awardees

Funding & Fellowships

Limited Submissions

University Research Foundation

Postdoctoral Diversity Fellowships

Sponsored Programs Information Network

Centers & Institutes

Featured Institutes

Institute for Regenerative Medicine

Center for Public Health Intiatives

Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter

Mahoney Institute for Neurological Sciences

Center for Cognitive Neuroscience

Center for Neuroscience and Society

Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics

Penn Institute for Urban Research

Regulatory Topics

FCOI

Training

Integrity & RCR

Policies

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News & Announcements

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