Research, Innovation & Impact

Conflict of interest

We provide conflict of interest training, support and guidance to faculty, staff and students. See university policies and guidelines.

Human subjects research

Access templates available for use in your research.

Animal research

Researchers can log in to find animal research services and care information.

Export controls

If your project does not meet exclusions, you'll work with us to identify and implement necessary safeguarding as required by the project sponsor. Documentation will include safeguarding steps required by the project sponsor and the process by which the research team will maintain this safeguarding. Some controls may include attending training. 

Learn quick facts about export controls and how it can affect your research.

International activity

MU researchers with foreign relationships and activities should educate themselves with this guidance and information.

Advanced technology core facilities

Schedule time to utilize advanced technology core equipment. 

The Connector (broader impacts)

A partnership between Research, Innovation and Impact and MU Extension, The Connector provides research and professional development opportunities, engagement resources and programming to help researchers share the benefits of their research with Missouri citizens.

Research leading to innovation

Contact MU’s Office of Technology Advancement to see if your research could lead to innovations of interest to companies. We can help you

• Refine your research direction by providing patentability feedback.
• Disclose an invention.
• Connect with potential investors, licensing partners and mentors.
• Help you find resources to advance early-stage innovations, such as translational research programs, business accelerators and small business funding.
• Develop a company around an idea and connect with a mentor.

Take advantage of Mizzou Lab 2 Market, a network of contacts, programs and services available to investigators navigating the multifaceted commercialization process. 

Are you conducting industry-sponsored research?

Work with the Industry Partnerships team to meet the expectations of corporate funders and navigate their requests and requirements. 
 

Sponsored programs forms

• Change in Personnel Form
• Change in Personnel Form Instructions
• Independent Contractor Documentation
• Intellectual Property Waiver (Word Document)
• Investigator Form
• No Cost Time Extension Request
• OSP FA Waiver
• OSPA Subrecipient and Contractor Determination Checklist for Sponsored Projects
• OSPA Third-Party Cost-Share Commitment
• Payroll Correcting Entry Form External (PDF)
• Payroll Correcting Entry Form External (Excel Document)
• Subrecipient Commitment Form
• Subrecipient Letter of Intent (Word Document)
• Subrecipient Letter of Intent (PDF)

Sponsored programs policies

• Advance and Pre-Award Accounts
• Clinical Trials F&A Cost Recovery
• Compensation for Research-Related Injury
• Cost Share
• Cost Transfers, Payroll
• Cost Transfers, Non-Payroll
• DHHS Salary Cap
• Electronic Effort Verification Report
• Export Control
• F&A Cost Recovery
• Financial Conflict of Interest in NSF-Funded Research
• Financial Conflict of Interest under the 2011 Revised PHS Regulation
• Fly America Act
• Grants Training Registration App
• Guidance to Investigators to Disclose All Financial Interests
• Intellectual Property
• Major Projects and Charging Administrative Costs to Sponsored Projects
• No Cost Time Extension
• NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates
• Participant Support Costs
• Public Access Policies
• Responsible and Ethical Conduct of Research (RCR) Training
• Safeguarding Covered Defense Information, Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) and Cyber Incident Reporting
• Sexual Harassment, Other Forms of Harassment and Sexual Assault
• Sponsored Programs Guidance on Industry Contracts Relating to Oversight Management Plans
• University of Missouri Position on 21 CFR Part 11 Compliance

Human subjects research

• Amendments
• Annual Review of Research
• Non-Compliance
• Post Approval Monitoring Process
• Unanticipated Problems

Animal research

Review instructions for starting an animal protocol.

Researchers can log in to access animal use policies, guidelines and care information.

Log into eCompliance

Learn about MU inventor rights and responsibilities.

As a general rule, MU owns inventions made by its employees. See University of Missouri Collected Rules and Regulations, Section 100.020. 

• Invention Disclosure Form

Share research with an outside collaborator.

• Make sure to have a nondisclosure, data use or material transfer agreement in place before you share confidential or unpublished research, data or materials with an outside collaborator.  

Self-paced professional development resources

• The Role of Technology Transfer in Translational Research 
  View recorded session

• Fundamentals of Being a Principal Investigator 
  Recorded sessions listed below.

  1. Welcome and introductions

  2. Everything you need to know about the pre-award process

  3. Fiscal and process management

  4. Institutional Review Board (IRB)

  5. Broader Impacts 101

  6. Tech Transfer

  7. Overview of Institute of Education Science (IES) proposal types and review process

  8. Mentoring and supporting graduate students and postdocotoral researchers

More professional development resources

• Browse our growing library of recorded webinars.

• Sign up for upcoming workshops.

• We also offer several programs that provide sustained support and training.

Interested in learning how to translate an idea from lab to market?

The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (I-Corps) provides training in starting a business, customer discovery, industrial processes and other areas for researchers interested in commercializing their innovations.