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| UF Research Office | Purpose | Customer Base |
|---|---|---|
| Advanced MRI and Spectroscopy (AMRIS) National MAGLAC Facility | Advanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy (AMRIS) is a state-of-the-art Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) facility for high-resolution solution NMR, solid-state NMR, microimaging, animal imaging, and human imaging. There are currently ten spectrometer systems, including an 800 MHz medium bore, a 750 MHz wide bore, an 11 T/40 cm bore horizontal animal imaging magnet, and two 3T human systems. All of our systems are available to University of Florida and external academic and industrial scientists. | UF faculty, staff, and researchers |
| Animal Care Services Center Core | Animal Care Services (ACS)provides specialized support services for in vivo imaging and irradiation as well a full range of surgical support services. They also maintain the Rodent Models Breeding Core for the generation, preservation, and management of your valuable rodent strains. ACS coordinates the import/export of rodents to and from the University of Florida. | UF faculty, staff, and researchers |
| Cell and Tissue Analysis Core (CTAC) | Cell and Tissue Analysis Core (CTAC) @ ICBR Cytometry provides In Vitro and In Vivo Imaging services and "self-serve" Histology. | UF faculty, staff, and researchers |
| Center for Pharmacogenomics | The CTSI Genotyping Core provides consultation and guidance to the researchers who need assistance in designing and performing genetics and pharmacogenetics studies, and provide genotype data for their research projects. | UF faculty, staff, and researchers |
| Cognitive Neuroscience Lab | The cognitive neuroscience laboratory research focuses on cognitive, emotional, and motivational processes and how these are affected by neurologic and psychiatric disorders including: movement disorders, Parkinson's disease, dystonia, Tourette, Huntington's, Alzheimer's, dementia, concussions, ALS, temporal and frontal lobe epilepsy (before and after seizure surgery), brain health, focal brain lesions, and major depressive disorder as well as apathy. | UF faculty, staff, and researchers |
| College of Agricultural and Life Sciences UF/IFAS Office of the Dean for Research at FAES | The UF Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS) proposals office in the Florida Agricultural Experiment Station (FAES) reviews all proposals, Faculty Service Programs (FSPs), Sponsored Program Agreements (SPAs), Advance Releases/Extensions of Time and CAS Exemption requests prior to the Dean's review and approval. | College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) and Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS) |
| College of Dentistry Office of Research | College of Dentistry (COD) | |
| College of Education Office of Educational Research | The Office of Educational Research (OER) supports the development of grant proposals from start to finish. OER staff help facilitate the submission process through the appropriate mechanisms and serve as liaison to various university offices such as the Division of Sponsored Programs, Contracts and Grants, and Institutional Review Board. OER staff also can assist with project design and budget development, provide feedback on proposal drafts, and prepare tables, figures, reference lists, and appendices. | College of Education (COE) |
| College of Engineering Faculty Research Resources | The Office of Research and Facilities in the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering supports the college's faculty, staff, and students in developing and maintaining internationally recognized research programs in areas such as Advanced Manufacturing, Autonomous Systems, Big Data, Cybersecurity, Human Centered Computing, Materials Innovation, and Renewable Energy. | College of Engineering (ENG) |
| College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Research Office | The CLAS Research Office provides administrative support to faculty researchers in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The Research Offices staff assists faculty with budget preparation, fiscal paperwork, and compliance issues. | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) |
| College of Medicine Office of Research Affairs | College of Medicine (COM) | |
| College of Nursing Office for Research and Scholarship | The Office for Research and Scholarship (ORS) exists to facilitate innovative research and scholarship conducted by CON Faculty, Students, and Staff through the provision of support services; these services include literature searches, assistance with grant applications, access to laboratory space and equipment, manuscript review and editing, and statistical consultation. | College of Nursing (CON) |
| College of Pharmacy Research Office | The UF College of Pharmacy provides a research service center which offers support from proposal preparation through final progress reporting and close-out of the project. | College of Pharmacy (COP) |
| College of Public Health & Health Professions Research Administration Core | Provides pre-award and post-award services for all of the PHHP departments. | College of Public Health and Health Professions (PHHP) |
| College of Veterinary Medicine Research | Oversees all aspects of research and graduate training in the College of Veterinary Medicine. | College of Veterinary Medicine (COVM) |
| Division of Contracts & Grants (C&G) | Establishes and maintains contract and grant projects in the myUFL financial system. C & G also prepares and submits financial reports to sponsors, invoices sponsors, deposits payments from sponsors, and processes subcontract encumbrances and payments. NOTE: For UF Human Subjects Research and Clinical Trials, see the Office of Clinical Research (OCR). | UF-wide |
| Division of Research Compliance and Global Support | Develops and implements research compliance programs and coordinates activities with various compliance offices and committees. It is responsible for Foreign Activities Disclosure, Global Support, Export Controls, and Research Integrity. | UF-wide |
| Division of Research Operations and Services (DROS) | Facilitates UF research within applicable regulatory requirements. Affiliated programs/units include: UF Institutional Review Boards (IRB), Conflict of Interest (COI), Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC), Human Research Protection Program (HRPP), Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC), and the Interdisciplinary Center for Biotechnology Research (ICBR). | UF-wide |
| Division of Research Program Development (DRPD) | Assists University of Florida faculty and staff in the pursuit of internal and external research funding. | UF-wide |
| Division of Sponsored Programs (DSP) | Facilitates institutional approval for all proposal submissions, accepts and administers grant awards, and negotiates contracts and other research-related agreements on behalf of the University of Florida. NOTE: For UF Human Subjects Research and Clinical Trials, see the Office of Clinical Research (OCR). | UF-wide |
| Electron Microscopy Core Facility | The Electron Microscopy Core (EM Core) provides consultation, service, teaching, and access to equipment to investigators that wish to incorporate ultrastructural studies in their research program. | UF faculty, staff, and researchers |
| Finance & Accounting - Cost Anaysis | Facilitates the campus-wide effort certification process and conducts space allocation surveys. This area also completes Facilities & Administrative (F&A) rate proposals and specialized cost reports. | UF-wide |
| ICBR Bioinformatics Core | The Bioinformatics core offers bioinformatics consulting and data analysis services to help researchers analyze and understand the large data sets acquired from next generation sequencing and array-based technologies. | UF faculty, staff, and researchers |
| ICBR Cytometry Core | The Cytometry core offers project consulting, experimental design and optimization as well as data analysis services to help researchers with large-scale and small-scale experiments acquired on our sorters and cytometry instruments. | UF faculty, staff, and researchers |
| ICBR Electron Microscopy Core | ICBR Electron Microscopy supports researchers in visualizing microscopic structures through imaging projects and user training. | UF faculty, staff, and researchers |
| ICBR Gene Expression & Genotyping Core | The Gene Expression & Genotyping core provides state-of-the-art technical services and consultation on Single Cell RNA-Seq, RNA-Seq, 16s metagenomics and Affymetrix gene expression arrays. | UF faculty, staff, and researchers |
| ICBR Monoclonal Antibody Core | The Monoclonal Antibody core develops new mouse monoclonal antibodies for investigators to use in basic and applied research. | UF faculty, staff, and researchers |
| ICBR Proteomics & Mass Spectrometry Core | ICBR Proteomics & Mass Spectrometry Facility has provided unprecedented tools for fast, accurate, high throughput biomolecular separation and characterization, which are indispensable towards understanding the biological and medical systems. | UF faculty, staff, and researchers |
| ICBR NextGen DNA Sequencing Core | The NextGen DNA Sequencing (NGS) core provides researchers with quality, massively parallel, high-throughput sequencing data using the most current instrumentation. | UF faculty, staff, and researchers |
| Interdisciplinary Center for Biotechnology Research (ICBR) | ICBR's mission is to enable, strengthen and energize all aspects of molecular life science research at the University of Florida by teaching theory, techniques and applications of modern molecular research. | UF faculty, staff, and researchers |
| IFAS Extension Research Services | Extension is located in the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS), along with the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS) and the Florida Agricultural Experiment Station, and is called UF/IFAS Extension. The administrative staff of Extension assists Extension faculty and staff with pre- and post-award functions. | Faculty and staff of IFAS Extension |
| Mass Spectrometry Research and Education Center | The UF Department of Chemistry Mass Spectrometry Research and Education Center provides access to a wide variety of mass spectrometry instruments, bioinformatic tools, and highly trained staff. They offer both routine services and advanced research-based projects. | UF faculty, staff, and researchers |
| Molecular Pathology Core | The Molecular Pathology Core (MPC) is comprehensive histology and microscopy facility for paraffin and frozen blocks and for all aspects of specimen collection, preparation, fixation, processing, staining, and analysis. | UF faculty, staff, and researchers |
| Office of Clinical Research | Contracting, Research Billing Compliance Review, and implementation of the OnCore Clinical Research Management System for UF Human Subjects Research | UF-wide |
| Office of Research | Provides leadership and infrastructure for the UF research enterprise. This office oversees the divisions of Sponsored Programs, Contracts & Grants, Research Program Development, Research Compliance and Global Support, and Research Operations & Services. | UF-wide |
| Pediatrics Research Hub (PoRCH) | Provides pre-award and post-award services for Surgery researchers | Department of Pediatrics |
| Pediatrics Research Office | Provides pre-award and post-award services for Pediatrics researchers | Department of Pediatrics |
| Powell Gene Therapy Center | The primary mission of the Gene Therapy Center (GTC) is to merge molecular genetics research and health care delivery by developing new therapeutic strategies for the treatment of human diseases that involve gene transfer. The center includes the Vector Core Lab, Process & Development Lab, Human Applications Lab, and Toxicology Core. | UF faculty, staff, and researchers |
| Sid Martin Biotech | Assists UF faculty, students, staff, and researchers in growing therapeutic, diagnostics, medical device, ag-bio, clean energy and/or biopharma businesses. | UF faculty, students, staff, and researchers |
| Stereotactic Radiosurgery Lab | The RadioSurgery/Biology (RSB) Lab within the MBI-UF building contains a computer-controlled six Mev linear accelerator for use in cerebrovascular, cancer and fundamental cell and molecular research. | UF faculty, staff, and researchers |
| Surgery Research Administrative Office | Department of Surgery | |
| Tech Licensing | Gives guidance to assist with invention disclosures and research activities including negotiating technical agreements, managing UF's intellectual property, commercializing the university's technology portfolio, planning and implementing effective patent, copyright or trademark strategy. | UF faculty, students, staff, and researchers |
| The Hub | The Hub is a business incubator that offers state-of-the-art wet laboratory, light manufacturing, and office space, along with advising, mentoring, education and programs and amenities. We have resident and affiliate programs available to assist every startup and small business. | UF faculty, students, staff, and researchers |
| Translational Drug Development Core | The CTSI Translational Drug Development Core provides services and expertise to assist researchers in moving a new compound from the lab to preclinical studies. | UF faculty, staff, and researchers |
| UF Innovate | UF Innovate supports an innovation ecosystem at UF that moves research discoveries from the laboratory to the market. It is comprised of four organizations: Tech Licensing, Ventures, and two business incubators, the Hub and Sid Martin Biotech. | UF faculty, staff, and researchers |