Investigators
MICHR offers a wealth of services that support investigators in conducting high-quality research at the University of Michigan.
Featured Services for Investigators
Our free in-person consultations offer personalized support and advice for your grant proposals or research ideas and are available to any U-M investigator.
MICHR's editor will carefully review your grant to identify red flags in the content; ensure logic, flow and clarity of ideas; eliminate jargon; improve sentence structure and grammar; and comment on unclear text.
MICHR provides the clinical staff, resources, and infrastructure necessary to conduct adult and pediatric human clinical research protocols at the University of Michigan.
MICHR offers two online training courses for REDCap.
Study management mentoring services empower study teams to efficiently plan, initiate, and manage their research study using standard tools and best practices.
Featured Resources for Investigators
The goal of this e-learning course is to enable learners to apply good clinical practice (GCP) principles to clinical research investigations involving human subjects as they specifically apply to social and behavioral research.
This pages includes decision worksheets and FDA guidance documents for investigators who may need to submit an Investigational New Drug or Investigational Device Exemption Application.
To address the need for consistent training and assessment of research skills, MICHR has collaborated three other universities to create the DIAMOND portal. The portal is a digital collection that serves as a sustainable, federated database for members of clinical and translational research study teams to share and access training and assessment resources.
Are you new to team science or not sure what it even is? The following videos will give you a taste of the skills, knowledge and resources that are important for doing team science well.
The videos were developed in collaboration with the Michigan Medicine Office of Faculty Development. Videos are based on the Top 10 Take Aways and other content from the National Cancer Institute’s Collaboration and Team Science: A Field Guide.
This toolkit has information and resources to help prepare you to apply for large scale grants.
The Statistical Analysis Plan (SAP) Sample Template for Clinical Trials is a technical document that describes the planned statistical analysis of a clinical trial as outlined in the protocol.
Upcoming Events
Are you in a role that supports and enables individual and team research efforts? Interested in learning more about innovative research development activities? Registration is now open for the National Organization of Research Development Professionals (NORDP) Great Lakes Regional Meeting, where experts will share and discuss their best practices, processes, and more to help you Get the Edge.
Join MICHR for an interactive workshop presenting the basics of budgeting for research grants. Learn how to calculate indirect costs, determine calendar months for effort, complete other budget components, and write a budget justification. We will also talk about how to monitor expenses after you are awarded and the closeout (FFR) process. This budgeting workshop is modeled using a NIH budget format.
MICHR’s biostatistics team consults and collaborates with researchers to provide expertise in all of your statistics needs.