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The Office of Research and Innovation (ORI) manages review, negotiation, and routing of research contracts for the signature of SMU’s Authorized Organizational Representative.

Research contracts managed by ORI include agreements to accept external funding (examples: incoming subawards, cooperative agreements, and sponsored research agreements), agreements to fund expenses for certain direct costs (examples: outgoing subawards and consultant agreements), and non-funded agreements in support of research (examples: non-disclosure agreements, data sharing and use agreements, and material transfer agreements).

Principal Investigators and other SMU research personnel do not have the authority to sign research contracts.

To initiate a contract request, please fill out this form: .

For any doubts or questions regarding research contracts, please contact researchcontracts@smu.edu .