Getting Started in Research:
Starting Up Your Lab

Establishing a new laboratory requires attention to many different details. The links below will provide information about starting your lab. Click here for information about applying for grants.

General Information

• Making the Right Moves: A Practical Guide to Scientific Management, an essential guide to starting a lab and a research career published by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Burroughs Welcome Fund.

Working with Staff, Students and Postdocs

• Human Resources (intranet website); Human Resources (internet website)
  
• Immigration Services
• Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
• Office for Postdoctoral Scholars 

Laboratory Management (internal access only)

• Campus Services, UMMS facilities and resources 
• Purchasing  
• LabShare, information about vendors and UMMS services.
• Lab Safety
• Radiation Safety

For Research Using Animals (internal access only)

• Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) 
• Department of Animal Medicine, to order animals and for animal care

Core Facilities for Research

• Research Core Facilities 
• Quantitative Methods Core (Department of Quantitative Health Sciences) provides clinical research support in biostatistics, experimental design, and data management
  

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