Research Compliance Office
Welcome to the Research Compliance Office!
Research Compliance Office
The Texas A&M University System Research Compliance Office is dedicated to supporting the system members to ensure research success through research compliance. The office provides compliance oversight for animal, human subjects and biohazardous material research as well as financial conflict of interest in research and research misconduct.
Services and Support (targeting compliance staff across the System)
- Offer consultation for navigating research compliance events and leadership recruitment activities
- Perform on-site research compliance assessments
- Evaluate adverse events and noncompliant incidents across the system
- Provide training on research compliance requirements, regulations, policies and procedures
- Support the implementation of technological solutions to improve research compliance
- Establish IP-COI Management Plans
Cayuse
The Research Compliance Office is aiding 11 System members to implement Cayuse for IACUC, IBC, and/or IRB solutions. For questions, contact your institution’s Research Compliance Office or the TAMUS Research Compliance Office at rco@tamus.edu.
IP-COI
For information related to IP-COI and inventors, please see the IP-COI section [inset link to IP-COI section of the webpage].
Research Compliance Office Fact Sheet
See our Fact Sheet! [insert link to the RCO one-pager PDF document]
Team/Staff Directory
Dr. Stacy Pritt
Associate Vice Chancellor and Chief Research Compliance Officer
spritt@tamus.edu
Stacy has served as the Associate Vice Chancellor and Chief Research Compliance Officer since January 2024. She is certified in numerous areas of research compliance and animal welfare. Stacy has held various research leadership positions over the last 20 years. She has given 100+ presentations and authored/co-authored over 50+ publications in her career.
Meredith Noto
Director, System Research Compliance
mnoto@tamus.edu
Meredith joined the TAMUS Research Compliance Office in June 2024 as the Director for System Research Compliance. She manages compliance incident reporting. Meredith has 15 years of experience in research with the last decade being focused in research compliance administration. She holds an MBA (Healthcare Leadership), an MA (Anthropology), and several research administration certifications.
Kathryn Cavanaugh
Associate Director, System Research Compliance Training & Development
kcavanaugh@tamus.edu
Kathryn joined the TAMUS Research Compliance Office in September 2024 as the Associate Director for Training & Development. She spearheads the System Research Compliance training program. Kathryn has over a decade of experience in research compliance and is a Certified Professional in IACUC Administration.
Newsletter
Sign-up for the Research Compliance Office newsletter [Insert link to sign-up for newsletter – Kathryn will insert this link after the webpage is built]
Events
Upcoming events hosted by the Research Compliance Office will be announced here!
Grant Opportunities
Grant Opportunities
NSF GRANTED
GRANTED is an NSF initiative that focuses on addressing systemic barriers within the nation’s research enterprise by improving research support and service capacity. For more information, view the NSF GRANTED webpage.
If you are interested in partnering with the TAMUS Research Compliance Office on an application, please contact us.
IP-COI
- Information for Inventors
- Information for Inventors of intellectual property may not represent TAMUS in licensing negotiations between TAMUS and a start-up with which the inventor has a relationship.
- Inventors who wish to commercialize intellectual property through the creation of a start-up and licensing TAMUS-owned IP to that start up, have a conflict of interest that requires evaluation and management.
- Inventors should contact Innovation to share the intention of licensing the IP, and should ensure that any financial interest (e.g. equity or ownership, etc.) and any role or employment (e.g. Board of Directors, employee, etc.) is appropriately disclosed to the System Member.
- Once the conflict of interest is managed, and any role subject to Board of Regents receives approval, licensing negotiations may proceed between TAMUS and the start up. However, it is important to note that the inventor may not represent TAMUS at any stage of these negotiations.
- IP-COI Process Flowchart
- To view the IP-COI process, view our flowchart. [insert link to IP-COI flowchart document]
- TAMUS Regulation 15.01.03
TAMUS Regulations
- View the TAMUS Policy and Regulation Library here.