About ORSP

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The Office of Research and Sponsored Projects (ORSP) primarily handles pre-award activities and is part of the Office of Research. 

Sponsored Programs primarily handles financial post-award activities, and is part of Finance.

Visit https://umhealthresearch.org to learn more about Clinical Trial Studies and participation opportunities. Their phone number is 877.536.4243.

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Research and internship opportunities are available for enrolled students. You can find graduate program application materials on the Rackham website (http://rackham.umich.edu). For undergraduate admissions go to http://admissions.umich.edu.

Check the U-M Library's http://funding.research.umich.edu for funding databases. There, you can arrange a consultation with a librarian who can help you with resources. If applying for funding, your next point-of-contact should be your department's research administrator. You can find that person here: Find a Research Administrator (Blue Pages). 

Our international partnerships and UMOR-hosted internal funding opportunities reside on our Find Funding page. There you can also find a listing of our Faculty Grants and Awards with deadlines and contact information.  

Contact Tricia McCain Ebright at UMORlimitedsubmissions@umich.edu.  

Your first point of contact should be your department's research administrator. You can find that person here: Find a Research Administrator (Blue Pages) You can use our Project Representative lookup table here. 

You can look up your ORSP Project Representative here. 

We do not keep research publications for loan or purchase. If published, it may be available via the National Institutes of Health PubMed Central or our U-M library. For citations, please use standard citation methods.

Jobs and internships are arranged through the academic department or posted on http://careers.umich.edu.

Your first point of contact should be your department's research administrator. You can find that person here: Find a Research Administrator (Blue Pages).

Unfortunately, we cannot accept résumés and applications for graduate programs or research opportunities. Find application materials on the Rackham graduate programs website or follow the employment application procedures on the University of Michigan careers/job postings site. Do check the eligibility requirements for any programs you see. Many summer research opportunities are only available to U.S. Citizens.

Visit the Responsible Conduct page: http://research-compliance.umich.edu/responsible-conduct-research-rcr-training as well as the PEERRS Certification website: http://my.research.umich.edu/peerrs/. Phone: 866-990-0111.  

Be sure to register your travel and check any policies here: http://global.umich.edu/travel-resources/ and http://research-compliance.umich.edu/international-travel-export-controls.

Visit http://research-compliance.umich.edu/irb-application-process Email: irbhsbs@umich.edu. Phone: 734-936-0933. Please note that it must be accessed via U-M's eResearch Regulatory Management (eRRM) system: http://eresearch.umich.edu. Phone: 734-764-HELP (764-4357). A list of compliance contacts can be found here: http://research-compliance.umich.edu/sites/default/files/eccontacts_web.pdf.