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For Faculty & Staff
The Office for Research partners with researchers to provide a pipeline of services and resources to foster innovation, from idea and proposal development to funding and commercialization.
Resources For Each Step of the Research Journey
Our services and staff will support every phase of your research journey. Find forms and documents required to do research at Rutgers, get help developing ideas and proposals, discover funding and commercialization opportunities, manage your sponsored awards, and more.
We provide support to research teams during the post-award research phase, helping faculty and staff manage their sponsored projects in an effective and compliant manner.
Rutgers core facilities play an integral role in our research infrastructure, empowering researchers to break new ground by offering specialized laboratories with state-of-the-art equipment, unique instrumentation and shared services.
The Office for Research supports the research community with expert contract management services to grow the University’s research enterprise and establish and strengthen strategic alliances with its sponsors.
We provide support during the pre-award project phase, helping research teams submit high-quality, competitive proposals and getting the most out of their award applications.
Responsible conduct of research is critical for excellence as well as public trust in scientific and other scholarly endeavors. Our team is committed to making sure your research project is conducted ethically and complies with industry standards.
We are dedicated to transforming research at Rutgers into products, services, and partnerships for the public good. Our professional staff will guide your research from proof of concept through patenting, licensing, and commercialization.
Opportunities for Faculty and Staff
Rutgers Research by the Numbers
4,225
Research Awards
Fiscal Year 2023
$929.3
Million
in Research Grants and Sponsored Programs
Fiscal Year 2023
1,598
Number of PIs Receiving Awards
Fiscal Year 2023
$12.7
Million
in Licensing Revenue
Fiscal Year 2023
Research News
The Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences’ Immersive Learning through Science Storytelling Lab has been honored by the New Jersey State Senate in a joint legislative resolution that describes the lab as having “established a model worthy of emulation and set a standard toward which others might strive.”
Learning about one’s risk for Alzheimer’s disease may not lead to emotional distress, but motivation to maintain healthy lifestyle changes tends to fade over time, even in people at high risk, according to a study involving a Rutgers Health researcher.
Rutgers University has received a $3.7 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to explore why some people struggle to resist everyday temptations and how that may play a role in various mental health conditions, including addiction, depression and impulse-control problems.
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, improved its standing in the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Top 100 U.S. Universities Granted Utility Patents, moving up four spots from the previous year to come in 42nd in 2024. This comes on the heels of the NAI’s announcement of its worldwide rankings, in which Rutgers placed 68th.
A record number of students presented projects at the recent Celebration of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity (CURCA). The lively event was part of the Faculty of Arts and Science–Camden’s annual research week, now reimagined as SPARK! (Showcase of Projects, Art, Research, and Knowledge).
An international team of scientists led by a Rutgers University-New Brunswick astrophysicist has discovered a potentially star-forming cloud that is one of the largest single structures in the sky and among the closest to the sun and Earth ever to be detected.
Rutgers Health researchers from the Nanoscience and Advanced Materials Center (NAMC) at the Environmental Occupational Health Sciences Institute (EOHSI) found that wildfire particles created a microclimate effect that worsened pollution exposure.
Antibiotics are commonly prescribed to young children to combat conditions such as ear infections and pneumonia. But the drugs may disrupt the digestive microbiome at a significant time in a child’s development.