Important Announcements

Nondiscrimination Statement Update

Boston Medical Center Health System complies with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, national origin (including limited English proficiency and primary language), religion, culture, physical or mental disabilities, socioeconomic status, sex, sexual orientation and gender identity and/or expression. BMCHS provides free aids and services to people with disabilities and free language services to people whose primary language is not English.

To see our full nondiscrimination statement, click here.

Campus Construction Update

Starting September 14, we’re closing the Menino building lobby entrance. This, along with the ongoing Yawkey building entrance closure, will help us bring you an even better campus experience that matches the exceptional care you've come to expect. Please enter the Menino and Yawkey buildings through the Moakley building, and make sure to leave extra time to get to your appointment. Thank you for your patience. 

Click here to learn more about our campus redesign. 

Portfolio Assignment and Directory

Research Operations

Look Up, Email, or Call your RO Partners

Every BMC department and division engaging in sponsored program activity is assigned three Research Operations (RO) points of contact to meet pre-award and post-award administrative needs, awards finance, and clinical research (CR) finance,* respectively. Click the following link to download a two-tabbed document , corresponding to the assignments and to an RO-wide directory of contact information.

Portfolio Assignment and Directory

*Please note: CR finance ranges across both negotiated industry trials and sponsor awards that include one or more protocol-specified clinical services, ranging from tissue sampling through major surgery.  For those awards, the Clinical Trial Office collaborates with their pre- and post-award colleagues.

What RO functional area should you contact and when? 

If your need is for general RO teams contact, please use the links below to send a general email query.  For specific individuals, please consult the portfolio assignment and directory, above. 

Sponsored Programs Administration, for all proposal submission, subawards, and post-award needs exclusive of finances:

  • all grant and contract proposals that are not industry projects
  • all award-related tasks, exclusive of industry trials and financial management

Sponsored Programs Finance, for all:

  • award finances, including equipment management and effort reporting
  • finance-related compliance (audit, indirect costs, equipment management, effort)

Clinical Trial Office when:

  • an industry sponsor seeks to activate a clinical trial protocol at a BMC or Boston University site
  • a BMC grant proposal involves one or more clinical services, for pre-submission budget considerations, including coverage analysis, and for continuing support related to billing and clinical charge finances.

Clinical Research Network, when you seek:

  • specific temporary or part-time services (e.g., regulatory, finance) to start up, maintain, or close out your SP
  • support on community and/or sponsor engagement and/or participant partnership,

Click on the menu links to the left to access team webpages

Resources

Research Careers with BMC

Systems for Research/SPs

Education and Training

Research Operations Forms

SP Policy Library

Contact Research Operations