Research Compliance Office

Research Compliance Office

Welcome to the Research Compliance Office!

Research Compliance Office

The Texas A&M University System Research Compliance Office is dedicated to supporting the system members to ensure research success through research compliance. The office provides compliance oversight for animal, human subjects and biohazardous material research as well as financial conflict of interest in research and research misconduct.

Services & Support

  • Offer consultation for navigating research compliance events and leadership recruitment activities
  • Perform on-site research compliance assessments
  • Evaluate adverse events and noncompliant incidents across the system
  • Establish System wide TAMUS Regulations for research compliance standards
  • Provide training on research compliance requirements, regulations, policies and procedures
  • Support the implementation of technological solutions to improve research compliance
  • Establish IP-COI Management Plans

Cayuse

The Research Compliance Office is aiding 11 System members to implement Cayuse for IACUC, IBC, and/or IRB solutions.  For questions, contact your institution’s Research Compliance Office or the TAMUS Research Compliance Office at rco@tamus.edu.

Research Compliance Office fact sheet

See our fact sheet that recaps our activities from last year!

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Team/Staff Directory

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Dr. Stacy Pritt
Associate Vice Chancellor and Chief Research Compliance Officer
spritt@tamus.edu

Stacy has served as the Associate Vice Chancellor and Chief Research Compliance Officer since January 2024. She is certified in numerous areas of research compliance and animal welfare. Stacy has held various research leadership positions over the last 20 years. She has given 100+ presentations and authored/co-authored over 50+ publications in her career.

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Meredith Noto
Director, System Research Compliance
mnoto@tamus.edu

Meredith joined the TAMUS Research Compliance Office in June 2024 as the Director for System Research Compliance. She manages compliance incident reporting. Meredith has 15 years of experience in research with the last decade being focused in research compliance administration. She holds an MBA (Healthcare Leadership), an MA (Anthropology), and several research administration certifications.

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Kathryn Cavanaugh
Associate Director, System Research Compliance Training & Development
kcavanaugh@tamus.edu

Kathryn joined the TAMUS Research Compliance Office in September 2024 as the Associate Director for Training & Development. She spearheads the System Research Compliance training program. Kathryn has over a decade of experience in research compliance and is a Certified Professional in IACUC Administration.

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Events

2026 LEAP Conference

The NSF ER2-funded Leveraging Ethical Authorship & Publishing Practices (LEAP) Conference will be held on April 17-18, 2026 virtually and onsite at the ETAMU building in Dallas (8750 N Central Expy). See the LEAP conference webpage to register and view the agenda.

Grant Opportunities

NSF Granted

GRANTED is an NSF initiative that focuses on addressing systemic barriers within the nation’s research enterprise by improving research support and service capacity. For more information, view the NSF GRANTED webpage.

If you are interested in partnering with the TAMUS Research Compliance Office on an application, please contact us at rco@tamus.edu.

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IP-COI

Information for Inventors

  • Inventors of intellectual property may not represent Texas A&M University System or any System Member during licensing negotiations.
  • Inventors who wish to commercialize intellectual property through the creation of a start-up and licensing TAMUS-owned IP to that start up, have a conflict of interest that requires evaluation and management. Prior approval by the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents is required prior to the creation of such a relationship (see TAMUS Regulation 17.01.08).
    • Inventors should contact Texas A&M University System Innovation to share the intention of licensing the IP, and should ensure that any financial interest (e.g. equity or ownership, etc.) and any role or employment (e.g. Board of Directors, employee, etc.) are appropriately disclosed to the System Member.
    • Once the conflict of interest is managed, and any role subject to the Board of Regents receives approval, licensing negotiations may proceed between Texas A&M University System and the start up. However, it is important to note that the inventor may not represent System at any stage of these negotiations.

IP-COI Process Flowchart

View our IP-COI process flowchart.

TAMUS Regulation 17.01.08

TAMUS Research Compliance Regulations

View the TAMUS Policy and Regulation Library here.