OFFICE OF RESEARCH COMPLIANCE & SERVICES

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Our Mission

The mission of the Office of Research Compliance & Services (ORCS) is to enable excellence in research, scholarship and innovation across the LSU Health Sciences Center – New Orleans by:

• Facilitating timely review of grant proposals, research agreements and research protocols for submission to review committees, sponsors or funding agencies;
• Ensuring conduct of research in compliance with regulatory policies and ethical standards thus safeguarding the rights and welfare of both researchers and human and animal research participants; and
• Providing customer-focused and solution-oriented services to the research community to enhance research quality, productivity and collaboration.

In so doing, ORCS contributes to the institution’s core missions of research, education and public service.

Our Responsibilities

ORCS is comprised of multiple administrative units or offices, each with specific responsibilities or function related to research compliance or research service. Please click on any of the tabs in the left side-bar to learn more about the responsibilities and operations of the selected unit.

Our Teams