Our Vision
The Rutgers Office for Research seeks to be the most innovative and trusted research office among all research universities, empowering faculty, students, and staff, to achieve excellence.
The Office for Research supports the research, scholarship, and creative endeavors of all Rutgers faculty.
The Office for Research provides a pipeline of services across Rutgers to drive and support faculty research and strategically leads the university's economic development activities.
Our cutting-edge research, sponsored by federal and state agencies, and increasingly by corporations and foundations, contributes to the medical, environmental, social and cultural well-being of the state. By transforming Rutgers research into products, services and partnerships, we help New Jersey’s economy grow.
The "why" and "how" of our work
The Rutgers Office for Research seeks to be the most innovative and trusted research office among all research universities, empowering faculty, students, and staff, to achieve excellence.
The Office for Research supports the research, scholarship, and creative endeavors of all Rutgers faculty.
Respect: We are transparent and collaborative, treat everyone with dignity and respect, and give every person a voice and opportunity to succeed.
Simplicity: Our services must be as easy to understand and use as possible.
Collaboration: We partner and convene to achieve shared goals for the common good.
Excellence: We strive to be effective, efficient, and innovative in all we do.
Research at Rutgers pushes the boundaries of knowledge and seeks to answer to the world's most complex questions. Rutgers culture of research, innovation, and collaboration transforms lives, improves communities, and advances the common good.
The Finance and Administration team manages the overall business administration and ensures the fiscal responsibility of the Research office, supporting the financial and strategic objectives of the Office for Research and its respective units. The unit also includes:
New Ventures works with Rutgers researchers to establish new start-ups, connect with potential industry mentors, and provide financial and business development support through commercialization funding programs to advance research and technologies towards commercialization.
Research Administration consists of the following units:
The Research Relationships team develops and maintains universitywide relationships with federal, state, and other entities for sponsored research, developing and coordinating universitywide research partnerships and intelligence.
Technology Transfer aims to partner with the Rutgers community to encourage deliberate innovation, protect and leverage Rutgers intellectual property, foster collaboration with industry, and enable entrepreneurship.
The Universitywide Core Services team supports, builds, and coordinates university-wide specialized laboratories which offer state-of-the-art equipment, unique instrumentation, and shared services managed by scientists with the technical expertise and experience to help other researchers at Rutgers and beyond. These services include Animal Care, which works closely with the Rutgers Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees to provide the highest quality animal care and veterinary oversight of our research animals in support of a shared commitment to humane animal research, and the Rutgers University Biomedical Research Innovation Cores (RUBRIC), which is managed by the Office for Research and bridges the gap between basic and interdisciplinary pre-clinical research for Rutgers faculty. Professional staff at RUBRIC help faculty create translational data for more competitive biomedical grant submissions, and increase collaboration with the private sector.