Research development

The VCU Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation offers a variety of live educational workshops for faculty, staff, postdoctoral scholars and graduate students to aid in the development of competitive proposals for external funding and to successfully manage awards. To access a complete list of scheduled dates, times and locations, click here.

Required training

There are several mandatory training modules that investigators, research staff and research administrators must complete before awards can be processed.

• Responsible Conduct of Research
• Sponsored Programs training
• Human research
• Animal research training (requires VCU eID login)