Division of Research
The Division of Research is committed to a truly comprehensive university where students, researchers and inventors bring scholarship and innovation to bear for the benefit of the community, the state and the nation.
Federal Administration Transition
The Vice President for Research and Sponsored Research Services are committed to providing up-to-date information related to Federal Executive Orders and other federal actions impacting federally funded research. In response to Executive Orders, federal agencies are taking individual actions and issuing directives including stop work orders while also pausing communications. To keep the research community up to date of potential impacts on the management of federally sponsored projects during this transition period, the Division of Research has established a web page to serve as a resource for the research community.
Funding
Seek external funding from diverse sources, utilize internal grants for innovative interdisciplinary research, and establish partnerships with clinical affiliates through strategic funding initiatives.
Compliance
Ensure the integrity of your research with guidance and programs supporting biosafety, animal care, human research protection and occupational health, ensuring the highest standards in all aspects of proposing, conducting and reporting research.
Animal Research
Obtain approval for research or teaching with animals by submitting an Animal Use Protocol (AUP) through iRIS. Ensure compliance with regulations for vertebrate animals, tissues or fluids used in research or teaching.
Safeguard participant rights and welfare in research through the Human Research Protection Program (HRPP), supporting compliance across Texas A&M University, including branch campuses, Texas A&M Health and the School of Law.
Obtain approval from the Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC) before initiating research, teaching or testing involving biohazards.
Coordinates health services for personnel handling biohazards or animals.
Promote open research and intellectual exchange while complying with U.S. export control laws, ensuring responsible handling of controlled information, controlled physical items and sanctioned transactions to safeguard national and economic security interests.
Disclose and manage financial or outside interests through the university’s transparent system, ensuring research integrity and preventing conflicts that could affect study design, data, oversight or institutional responsibilities.
Develop ethical research practices with essential knowledge and tools to ensure integrity in authorship, data management, collaboration, safety and compliance.
Secure prior approval to host visiting scholars accessing research or clinical facilities, ensuring alignment with departmental, divisional, and institutional requirements for collaboration and resource use.
Provides guidance and support for obtaining transparency related to foreign components of your research.
Centers, Institutes and Core Facilities
Research centers and institutes play an important role in the academic landscape at Texas A&M, bringing together scholars and scientists—often from different disciplines—to tackle major research challenges.
Core facilities are an essential part of Texas A&M University’s research infrastructure, providing critical resources for groundbreaking research. By ensuring more efficient resource utilization, shared research facilities are a cost-effective way to leverage research expertise and specialized instruments.
The division maintains up-to-date fact sheets about itself, the research enterprise, support services, compliance issues, programs, centers, institutes, core facilities and the research communities at Texas A&M.