Research-Related Agreements-Responsible Offices
Responsibility for handling different types of agreements for research-related activities is distributed across several UCI offices. This matrix is intended to help clarify which office has primary responsibility for negotiating and executing research-related agreements.
| Type of Agreement | Description | Primary Responsibility |
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| Grant | A financial assistance award typically issued by governmental and non-profit entities to support a research project or program, research training program (e.g., fellowships or training grants for individuals or groups of trainees) or public service project or program related to research or training. | SPA |
| Cooperative Agreement | A type of grant typically issued by governmental and non-profit entities when the sponsor anticipates that its programmatic personnel will have substantial involvement in project activities and oversight. | SPA |
| Clinical Trial Agreement | A contract that contains detailed terms governing the performance, funding and reporting of controlled, clinical testing of new drugs, devices, treatments or diagnostics, or comparisons of approved drugs, devices or diagnostics in human subjects to assess their safety, efficacy, benefits, costs, adverse reactions and/or outcomes under an industry-developed or an investigator-developed protocol. | SPA |
| Research Agreement | A contract that contains detailed terms governing the performance, funding and reporting of a research project or program. | SPA
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| Industry Sponsored Research Agreement | A contract that contains detailed terms governing the performance, funding and reporting of a research project or program funded by a for-profit entity. | Applied Innovation - Industry Sponsored Research
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| Incoming Subaward/Subcontract | A contract under another entity’s prime award that transfers a substantive portion of a scope of work and associated funding to UCI. | SPA
Applied Innovation - Industry Sponsored Research
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| Outgoing Subaward/Subcontract | A contract that transfers a substantive portion of a scope of work and associated funding under a UCI prime award to another entity. | SPA |
| License/Option Agreement to UC Intellectual Property | A contract that conveys certain use rights related to UCI intellectual property (e.g., patents, copyrights or biological materials) to another entity, usually a for-profit company. | Applied Innovation - Invention Transfer Group |
| Material Transfer Agreement | A contract (separate from a grant, cooperative agreement, research agreement, industry research agreement or clinical trial agreement) that protects the intellectual and other property rights of an entity providing a research material while permitting the receiving entity to use the material in its research. | Applied Innovation - Industry Sponsored Research
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| Equipment Loan Agreement | A contract that temporarily transfers equipment, instruments or other similar items of tangible personal property to UCI for use in research or for testing and evaluation or instructional purposes in the course of research. | Procurement Services - Equipment Management |
| Confidentiality, Non-Disclosure or Secrecy Agreement | A contract to protect an entity’s proprietary information when it is shared with another entity. | Applied Innovation - Industry Sponsored Research
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| Visiting Scientist Agreement | A contract that enables a non-UC visitor to engage in collaborative activities with a UCI research team/lab when the visitor has a continued obligation to assign intellectual property rights to their employer. | Applied Innovation - Industry Sponsored Research (Lead)  & SPA jointly |
| Research Use/Access Agreement (aka, Off-site Research Agreement) | An agreement to permit UCI’s use of or access to a non-UCI location or facility for the purpose of conducting UCI research. | SPA
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| Data Use Agreement | A data use agreement (DUA) authorizes the transfer of a data set for specified limited purposes (e.g., conducting human research). Data containing Protected Health Information may be subject to a HIPAA business associate agreement (see below). | SPA
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| HIPAA Business Associate Agreement | An agreement covering the business-related disclosure of protected health information. | SPA
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| International Memorandum of Understanding | A brief document, signed by UCI and a foreign university or other institution, which states the intention for future collaboration and development of joint academic activities. MOU's do not specify activities or commit university resources. | Global Engagement |
| International Collaboration Agreement | A formal agreement between UCI and a foreign university or other foreign institution, which specifies joint academic activities and commits resources. Some examples  include: exchange of faculty, postdoctoral researchers, graduate students, or staff (visiting scientist agreement may also be required); UCI students taking classes at a foreign university; research collaborations not covered by a sponsored award, subaward or off-site research agreement; exchange of academic materials, research materials or technical information (material transfer agreement, license/option agreement, data use agreement and/or non-disclosure agreement may also be required); collaborative scholarship programs; hosting of joint conferences or workshops; and special short-term projects not covered by a sponsored award or subaward. | Global Engagement
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