What's new in the UW research community — important announcements, upcoming events, and helpful tips can all be found here.
Coming this Summer: New Financial Conflicts of Interest Regulations
May 18, 2012
The University of Washington’s policy on Financial Conflict of Interest (FCOI) will be revised to comply with the Public Health Service (PHS) FCOI regulations which go into effect on August 24, 2012. UW investigators must continue to follow the current UW’s SFI Disclosure Policy (GIM-10) until otherwise informed.
The Office of Research is developing implementation processes and throughout the summer will post frequent updates on the new FCOI Web site.
Read the details
Together We Make History!
April 18, 2012
In honor of our 150th anniversary, we are pleased to present a timeline of education and research at the UW. Take a tour of our beginnings from a small university of 30 students to the premier university we are today.
View the Timeline
Royalty Research Fund Awardee News
March 12, 2012
Through the Royalty Research Fund, the Office of Research supports faculty seeking to advance new directions in research. In January, 30 proposals were funded for a total of $1,001,767.
Read the details
Organizational Effectiveness Initiative (OEI) Announces new Website!
February 28, 2012
OEI (part of 2y2d) announces their newly designed website! This site offers a myriad of useful information including tools and templates for strategic planning, organization assessment and process improvements.
Organizational Effectiveness Initiative (OEI)
Ethically Responsible and Nationally Recognized
January 23, 2012
Karen Moe (Human Subjects Division) recently gave testimony to the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues (bioethics.gov), which advises President Obama. Moe described the UW's exemplary program for compensating human subjects for adverse events caused by their research participation.
The Director of the Human Subjects Division, Karen Moe, was one of five people invited to provide expert testimony at the November 16-17th 2011 meeting of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. (The agenda and video of the testimony can be found on their website at http://bioethics.gov/cms/meeting-seven.) The Presidential Commission is an advisory panel appointed by President Obama. It advises the President on bioethical issues, seeking to identify and promote policies and practices that ensure scientific research, health care delivery, and technological innovation are conducted in a socially and ethically responsible manner.
Human subjects research was the focus of this meeting and the Commission's work for the previous four months, particularly the issue of compensating research subjects for injuries or adverse events resulting from their participation in the research. Moe described the UW's human subjects assistance program, on behalf of the several UW offices that oversee the program. The UW program, in existence for over 30 years, has been repeatedly singled out by NIH, other federal officials, and news media as unique and exemplary. After Moe's presentation, Commission members included her in their discussion for the next 1.5 hours. The Commission released its report, "Moral Science: Protecting Participants in Human Subjects Research", in December.
2011 Annual Report
December 22, 2011
Our new streamlined Annual Report is now available! One of the report highlights is the UW's impressive total of $1.513 billion for sponsored research funds.
Read the Report
UW wins iGEM World Championship
December 1, 2011
The UW iGEM team won the 2011 World Championship! Their work included months of lab work and genetic engineering of microbes—one to produce diesel fuel and another to help treat the difficult digestion problems for people with gluten intolerance.
Read more at UW Today
Organizational Effectiveness Initiative (OEI)
November 17, 2011
The OEI offers valuable services to help units achieve operational excellence. Most are offered at no charge! To learn more, please contact us at oei@uw.edu
UW Will Lead $18.5 Million Effort to Create Mind-Machine Interface
October 20, 2011
The National Science Foundation has awarded an $18.5 million grant to establish the new Engineering Research Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering at the UW. Researchers at the center will work on “neurobotics”, the development of robotic replacement limbs that can be controlled with the mind.
Read more at UW Today
Discover UW Research Centers
September 23, 2011
New! Our updated Research Centers page lets you easily search and browse UW's various centers and find guidance on how to establish your own. Collaborative work provides opportunities to address big social problems and allows for research activities to cross the boundaries of discipline.
UW Research Centers
Faculty Orientation to Research
September 12, 2011
Friday, September 16th, Johnson Hall.
Learn about UW services available to support your research program and help you meet research requirements.
Faculty Orientation to Research
Upcoming Conference: Ethical Considerations in Research Collaborations
August 30, 2011
September 22-23, 2011, Meany Hall.
Nationally recognized speakers will focus on the ethical challenges of
research collaboration among peers, with industry, and worldwide in
this US Health and Human Services, Office of Research Integrity
sponsored conference.
Ethical Considerations in Research Collaborations
Proposed Major Revision of Federal Human Subjects Regulations
August 15, 2011
Correction: The deadline for submitting comments to
OHRP is now October 26th. You may submit comments to HSD until October 10th.
Federal regulatory agencies have proposed the first major overhaul to federal human subjects regulations in their 40-year history. The Human Subjects Division (HSD) and the federal Office of Human Research Protections (OHRP) want your input. Have your say.
Federal regulatory agencies recently proposed major changes in the federal human subjects regulations. Collectively, these changes would significantly enhance subject protections while also reducing regulatory burden. You can read specific details about the proposed changes at the federal Office of Human Research Protections (OHRP) site.
The Human Subjects Division (HSD) of the UW Office of Research (OR) invites your comments on the proposed changes. Your feedback will help provide the basis for a comment from HSD to OHRP. If you'd like to have your comments considered for the HSD statement, please email your feedback to Karen Moe, HSD Director, by September 10th October 10th. Please link your comments to specific sections or questions as identified in the proposed changes.
You can also submit comments directly to OHRP at any time before September 26th October 26th. Follow the instructions at the OHRP website.
The revision process itself is likely to take a few years:
- The changes are posted for a 60-day public comment period.
- The relevant federal agencies will review and consider all comments.
- The agencies will draft the revised regulations.
- The draft revised regulations will be posted for another 60-day public comment period.
- The agencies will review and consider all comments.
- The final revised regulations will be implemented.
To ensure that the UW research community is kept fully informed at every step of this historic process HSD has set up a discussion board for conversation regarding the proposed changes. If you don't have a UWNetID, you can choose the "ProtectNetwork" option and register for a free account.
Please contact Karen Moe if you have any questions.
A New Look, a New Approach
August 1, 2011
You've told us what you need to get your work done. And we know you haven't had an easy time finding it on our site. That's why we're giving UW Research a new look. Change begins at home — with the UW Research Home page.
The new UW Research Home page — research.uw.edu — provides a single entry point to essential information supporting the conduct of research. And to fit your business, not ours, it organizes that content topically, rather than along the lines of our org chart.
Our goal is to ease your workload by giving you a clear path to the tools, policies and compliance information you need to be successful.
We also want to highlight the success of the amazing research you do and raise the reputation of the University as a premier research institution. Visitors to research.uw.edu will find dynamic stories and images showcasing the achievements of the UW research community.
Finally, the new Home page establishes the foundation for a more personalized experience with research at the University. And it looks as great on an iPhone as it does on a laptop, so you can access what you need when and where you need it.
Next steps will include a major clean–up and re–architecting of the sites and pages behind the Home page across the UW research enterprise. After that we'll be rolling out new services to you via the site, and exploring how to tailor the experience for each individual researcher.
We'd love to hear your thoughts on our new direction. Send your comments and suggestions to oris@uw.edu.
