To pursue the full scope of work outlined in your research proposal, you may need to sign several types of agreements. The Office of Research Administration (ORA) holds the responsibility and authority to enter into these contractual agreements on behalf of Rush University. All research agreements must be submitted through the Rush Research Portal.
The ORA Clinical Research and Regulatory team assists researchers with these agreements in partnership with the Rush Office of Legal Affairs:
These agreements grant third parties rights under Rush University patents or copyrights. University license agreements typically stipulate that the licensee should diligently seek to bring the intellectual property into commercial use for the public good, provide a reasonable return for Rush and specify limitations to Rush’s liability.
A subaward transfers funds from a sponsored award to another entity to allow that entity to provide goods, services or programmatic work to Rush. The ORA Sponsored Programs Administration (SPA) team issues and administers subawards in compliance with Rush policies and procedures, applicable sponsor regulations and the terms and conditions of the prime award. Requirements for these types of agreements vary and will impact your proposal budget.
These agreements are used for incoming and outgoing materials at Rush and are administered by the Office of Legal Affairs. They describe the terms under which University researchers and outside researchers may share materials or data, typically for research or evaluation purposes.
Templates for these agreements are available on the Rush Research Portal.
A uniform biological material transfer agreement between Rush and an outside institution allows an investigator from the “receiver” institution to use biological research material owned by Rush. These agreements are reviewed and approved by the Rush Office of Legal Affairs. An agreement-implementing letter also is available to help structure this agreement.
These agreements describe the terms under which two or more institutions (generally universities) will collaborate to assess, protect, market, license and share in the revenues received from licensing jointly owned intellectual property. IIAs are administered by Rush’s Innovation and Technology Transfer (ITT) division.