Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research (VCRO)
119 California Hall
(510) 642-7540

	Graham Fleming Vice Chancellor for Research
	Robert Price Associate Vice Chancellor for Research

The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research has overall managerial responsibility for Berkeley's research enterprise. It seeks to maintain a research environment that fosters creativity, collaboration and community. Its specific goals are to provide effective support for campus-wide research efforts; to advocate for research needs and resources; and to maximize the benefits of Berkeley's research to the scholarly community, and to the quality of life in the local community, the state, and the nation.

In support of these goals, the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research:

• Supervises over 50 Research Units, 6 Museums, and 7 Field Stations
• Administers the flow of research funding to the Berkeley campus
• Oversees the compliance of campus research with federal, state and university regulations
• Facilitates relations between University researchers and private industry for the benefit of society

Administrative support for research is carried out within Institutes, Centers, Museums, and Field Stations and through several subsidiary organizations.

The Sponsored Projects Office (SPO) is responsible for preparing, interpreting, negotiating, and accepting agreements for projects funded by federal and state agencies, foundations, corporations, and other public and private sources.

The Office of Intellectual Property and Industry Research Alliances (IPIRA) provides leadership for the Berkeley campus for the full range of research and technology relationships with industry. IPIRA’s mission is to:

• Recognize, establish, nurture and maintain multifaceted relationships with companies and foundation
• Enhance the Berkeley campus research enterprise through Intellectual Property (IP) management
• Facilitate and strengthen new types of agreements to reflect changing relationships with foundations and industry
• Support economic development through technology and knowledge transfer including entrepreneurship

The Office of Technology Licensing (OTL) works with campus inventors to facilitate transfers of technologies created at UC Berkeley to the commercial sector for public use and benefit. The scope of OTL activities include: evaluating the commercial potential of new technologies, determining patentability, prosecuting patents, registering copyrights, marketing and licensing patents, tangible material, and software, negotiating license agreements, and receiving and distributing royalties and other income to the inventors, the UC Berkeley campus and its departments.

The Industry Alliances Office (IAO) works with UC Berkeley employees and companies to enable innovative research relationships and with offices across campus to streamline research agreement management and negotiation. The IAO is responsible for negotiating all research contracts dealing with private industry, including: sponsored research agreements, membership agreements, material transfer agreements, data/software transfer agreements, collaboration agreements.

The Committee for Protection of Human Subjects (CPHS) is mandated by federal law and University policy to review all proposals for research by University faculty members and graduate students involving the use of human subjects.

The Office for the Protection of Human Subjects (OPHS) provides staffing for the CPHS.

The Animal Care and Use Committee (ACUC) is a faculty committee charged with reviewing and approving all proposed uses of live vertebrate animals in teaching and research. Its activities are mandated by the U.S. Animal Welfare Act and Public Health Service Policy.

The Office of Laboratory Animal Care (OLAC) is directed by a senior veterinarian who is board-certified by the American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine. She and a staff of more than 45 laboratory animal technicians provide seven-day-a-week nursing, husbandry, and feeding care for all campus animals.

The Visiting Scholar and Postdoc Affairs (VSPA) Program was established to accommodate scholars with an opportunity to pursue their research and professional interests on the Berkeley campus. Berkeley is host to many visitors from other universities, colleges, research laboratories, and government agencies who conduct research using campus facilities.

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