Research Support

Grant Support office

Researchers at every level in their career (from post-docs to professors) can make use of our grant support services, part of the UMCG Research Office. The grant support office is the prime go-to point for any grant-related issue: be it for national, international, personal grants, consortia or public-private collaborations.

Our support includes:

• Tailored funding advice (in person or per department/group)
• Call-specific networking support and stakeholder analysis
• Funding workshops
• Pre-award support
• Support with proposal budgets and signatures

Find out more: grantsupport@umcg.nl

Research B.V.

We provide research project life cycle management through connecting ideas, people, tools and resources.

We offer:

• Facilitation sessions for idea development
• Pre- and post-award support
• Training in research project management
• Knowledge gathering and exchange
• Tailored consultancy.

Find out more: researchbv@umcg.nl

We share our stories on impact to your benefit and we can help you to gather your impact evidence. Will you join us?

• We inform, educate and create awareness about the impact of research and collaborations beyond academia.
• We define tailored activities for individual researchers as well as departments, e.g. PhD impact prizes or citizen science events within research projects.

Visit the impact team

The Central Medical Library can help you with expertise in Open Access publishing, citation analysis, copyright issues, plagiarism scanning and PURE.

Visit the Central Medical Library

Within the UMCG, several parties help with career and personal development either through general career support (information on terms of employment) or specific opportunities to advance your scientific career at an early and advanced stage.

Visit develop your career with our support

Visit the Graduate School of Medical Sciences

We support researchers in various ways to set up and implement high-quality research involving human related subjects. IM-Onderzoek works closely with other departments and projects in- and outside the UMCG.

Find out more: imo-servicedesk@umcg.nl

The Genomics Coordination Center (GCC) is the UMCG expertise hub for ‘omics’ data analysis, integrative bioinformatics and FAIR data stewardship.

Visit the facility GCC

The Digital Competence Center (DCC) is a virtual front-office and first-point-of-contact offering support on research data management and consultation on available tools and services. 

Find out more: researchsupport@umcg.nl​

The Cohort and Biobank Coordination Hub serves as an umbrella for the UMCG’s cohort and biobank activities. We bring together a community of researchers, cohorts, and biobanks to drive new discoveries. Through our network we are able to connect you to the right people, knowledge, and ideas; facilitating new collaborations.

Find out more: cbch@umcg.nl

When preparing and performing scientific research in human subjects and pre-clinical research, our research tools help you to comply with internal and external legislation and take into account safety, privacy and quality aspects. For example, we provide:

• Relevant information
• Relevant documents and checklists to be completed
• Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
• Templates and forms

Find out more: researchsupport@umcg.nl

The UMCG Research Register is a database containing all research projects from UMCG employees. Registration is mandatory for WMO and non-WMO projects, investigator initiated and sponsored projects, healthy volunteers and patients who give their biological samples and/or medical data.

Find out more: researchsupport@umcg.nl

To preserve scientific integrity, the Board of Directors of the UMCG has drawn up a Research Code. The UMCG Research Code provides researchers with guidelines for conducting medical research in a correct and ethical fashion.

Research code

Basic course on Regulations and Organization of Clinical Trials (BROK®) UMCG

This platform is not only for researchers who want to obtain their BROK® certificate, but also for researchers who already have a BROK® certificate and want to keep their certification (re-certification). The eBROK is available in Dutch and English.

More information and register the BROK® course

An example of how we support researchers to comply with regulations is our e-learning Privacy in Research on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Non UMCG staff are asked to register before they can start the e-learning.

Read more about the e-learning

The UMCG provided ethics review for WMO and non-WMO scientific research.

Read more about ethical review for WMO studies

Read more about ethical review for nWMO studies

Questions contact: researchsupport@umcg.nl 

The carefulness with which clinical research must be carried out, the associated increasing regulations, and the requirements imposed on the implementation, make increasingly higher demands on the (UMCG) researchers.

The Service Desk CRO professionals are aware of these demands and administration burden and can assist in the start-up and the execution of high quality research, with an eye for quality and how to keep it practical. The CRO professionals have been supporting the conduct of clinical trials for many years, are involved in many projects / collaborations and are aware of the applicable requirements. Examples of clinical trial support serviced which can be requested:

• Monitoring Clinical Trials
• National and/or ZonMw grant application support
• EC/CA submissions
• Study Management
• Clinical Project management
• Safety management
• DSMB reporting

Find out more: researchsupport@umcg.nl

The Center for Development and Innovation (CDI) assists with:

• Protection and improvement of intellectual property rights;
• Interaction with industrial partners;
• Development of a strategy to exploit existing knowledge;
• Creation of centers of expertise;
• Start-ups and spin-offs;

Visit the Center for Development and Innovation