About Us

The Office of Research (OR) serves as the primary campus office for matters related to research, including:

• Review and acceptance of extramural research awards.
• Furthering research relationships with government and industry.
• Encouraging and assisting faculty in developing research and scholarly studies.
• Oversight of intramural research support.
• Functional responsibility for organized research units and projects.
• Management of certain research-related programs, instrumentation and facilities.
• Management of several UC Natural Reserve sites.
• Review and approval of the use of human subjects and conflict of interest disclosures.
• Coordination of patenting and licensing of campus intellectual property.

The Office of Research is composed of a variety of units, divided amongst (1) Research Administration and (2) UC Davis InnovationAccess.