Meet with your Department Administrator to obtain and/or discuss information regarding:
- Your WUSTLKey
- Benefits
- Building access
- Campus card/Bear Bucks (Note: Bear Bucks may not work during the summer for those with nine-month appointments)
- Telephone service
- Parking & Transportation/ MetroLink U-Pass
- Faculty Financial Reporting
- Research Management System (RMS)
- Electronic Personnel Activity Reporting System (ePARS) access
- Internal controls certification
- Time & Labor Reporting approval
- Training and education programs (log-in via Learn@Work)
- Human and animal protocols
- Environmental Health & Safety
- Meeting with your faculty mentor. Learn more about McKelvey faculty development and mentoring here.
- Setting up your laboratory and managing your start-up funds
- Building your research team
- Students
- Postdocs and other research staff
- McKelvey support offices
- Contacting McKelvey Research Development & Administration to be added to mailing lists for funding opportunities and support
- Contacting the Institute for School Partnership to incorporate outreach activities/broader impacts into your research
- Preparing for tenure
- Planning for Sabbaticals and Leaves of Absence
Animal Care & Use
Click on the Education and Training accordion for a list of trainings related to animal research.
Author’s Checklist for Preparation of Publications
Supporting co-author agreement and shared planning of publications
Avoid Authorship Disputes
Guidelines helping to prevent situations that may lead to new authorship disputes
Center for Clinical Studies
Provides WU researchers with administrative and clinical research services from the initial proposal phase through study close-out.
Clinical Research Training Center
Provides a cohesive and supportive infrastructure to foster clinical and translational research training and career development for predoctoral students, house-staff, postdoctoral fellows, staff, and faculty.
Clinical Trials Registration and Informed Consent Posting Guideline
WU Guidelines from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research
Conflict of Interest – OVCR Resources
Admin resource page for Conflicts of Interest.
Addresses various COI types, forms, committees
Controlled Substances
Approval, acquisition, storage, and disposal of DEA-controlled substances used in laboratory and animal research
Controlled Substances Overview
Flow chart indicating the acquisition process and resposibilities by types of research and location
Decision Tool: Am I Doing Human Subjects Research? (NIH)
Complete this questionnaire to determine whether your reserach classifies as human subjects research
Disclosure & Reporting Requirements for International Research
University resources around the government’s concerns and best practices
Division of Comparative Medicine (DCM)
Animal procurement, husbandry, facility operations, technical and veterinary support
Education in Good Clinical Practices Policy
Applicable for faculty and staff involved in the conduct, oversight or management of clinical trials
Effort Reporting – Sponsored Projects
Policies and procedures for reporting effort on sponsored projects
Environmental Health and Safety (EHS)
Explore training for lab safety protocols involving hazardous and regulated materials, equipment, and environment. Megan Flake is the McKelvey liaison with the staff from the EH&S department of the University.
Export Control
Information and Technology Sharing Regulations
Applies to transfer of technical information or controlled items to foreign nationals or across U.S. boundaries
HIPAA Policies & Procedures
WU policies and procedures for compliance with the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act
HIPAA Privacy Office
Resources for compliance with the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act
Human Research Protection Office
Protects the rights and welfare of participants in human research and clinical investigations.
Human Research Quality Assurance Program (HRQA)
Monitors active research protocols to ensure protection of human subjects and confirm that research is conducted in compliance with federal regulations and university policies.
Human Resources Training
Courses available for both staff and faculty on a variety of topics related to professional development, management and leadership. Enroll in courses through Learn@Work.
Human Subjects Education Policy
Applicable to individuals responsible for the design, conduct and reporting of research involving human participants
Human Subjects Protection (IRB)
Resources, policies, and guidelines relating to all human subjects research, including, but not limited to, clinical and social/behavioral research
Human Subjects Research Resources – OVCR
Links to offices, policies & procedures, how-to’s, and other tools.
Information Security Policies
WU Infosec policies and guidelines for use of WU systems and data security
Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC)
Guidelines and Tools for the appropriate, ethical and safe conduct of research involving vertebrate animals. Log in with WUSTL Key.
Institutional Biological and Chemical Safety
Oversight of research involving recombinant or synthetic nucleic acids, infectious or potentially infectious agents, and/or hazardous chemicals
LAMPS: Lab Animal Management & Protocol System
System for processing WU animal protocols and hazardous materials
Office of Research Integrity & Ethics (ORIE)
Provides programmatic resources for: Individual and Institutional Conflicts of Interest, Human Stem Cell Research, Research Integrity and Authorship Standards , Human Research Quality Assurance and Improvement, Institutional Animal Care and Use.
PERCSS – Training in the Responsible and Ethical Conduct of Research
WU Curriculum: Program for the Ethical and Responsible Conduct of Science and Scholarship
The PERCSS Core Curriculum features eight web-based learning modules in areas related to ethical and responsible conduct of research. The PERCSS Core Curriculum is available through Learn@Work.
Radiation Safety
Safe and compliant use of radiation and radioactive materials for research, teaching and medical applications
Register a Trial on Clinicaltrials.gov
WU tip sheet from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research
Research Integrity & Authorship
The Authorship Policy describes the essential considerations and requirements for responsible authorship of scientific and scholarly publications by the University community.
Securing Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI)
Considerations for proposals and awards with terms related to CUI. Guide by JROC.
Stem Cell Research
Oversight of human embryonic stem cell research and certain uses of human pluripotent stem cells
This list of suggestions is drawn from fellow faculty members and other University websites.
- How to Start Your Own Lab: Eight Principal Investigators Share What They Wish They Knew
- Survive and Thrive: A Guide for Untenured Faculty
By Wendy Crone - Reviewers rule: Strategies for faculty advancement
By Alaina G. Levine - You Have the Keys to Your First Lab. Now What?
By Margaret Foster - Guide to Effective Grant Writing: How to Write a Successful NIH Grant Application
By Otto Yang - Becoming an Academic Writer: 50 Exercises for Paced, Productive, and Powerful Writing
by Patricia Goodson - Tomorrow’s Professor: Preparing for Careers in Science and Engineering
By Richard M. Reis - At the Helm: A Laboratory Navigator
By Kathy Barker - Making the Right Moves
Howard Hughes Medical Institute - On Being a Scientist: A Guide to Responsible Conduct in Research
The National Academies Press