### Portfolio Assignment and Directory

- [ Resources](#resources)
 
  ## Look Up, Email, or Call your RO Partners

Every BMC department and division engaging in sponsored program activity is assigned three Research Operations (RO) points of contact to meet pre-award and post-award administrative needs, awards finance, and clinical research (CR) finance,\* respectively. Click the following link to download a two-tabbed document , corresponding to the assignments and to an RO-wide directory of contact information.

### [Portfolio Assignment and Directory](https://hub.bmc.org/doc/rsp-directory-51826)

*\*Please note: CR finance ranges across both negotiated industry trials and sponsor awards that include one or more protocol-specified clinical services, ranging from tissue sampling through major surgery. For those awards, the Clinical Trial Office collaborates with their pre- and post-award colleagues.*

### What RO functional area should you contact and when? 

If your need is for *general* RO teams contact, please use the links below to send a general email query. For specific individuals, please consult the portfolio assignment and directory, above.

[***Sponsored Programs Administration***](mailto:grants.admin@bmc.org), for all proposal submission, subawards, and post-award needs exclusive of finances:

- all grant and contract proposals that are not industry projects
- all award-related tasks, exclusive of industry trials and financial management

[***Sponsored Programs Finance***](mailto:research.finance@bmc.org), for all:

- award finances, including equipment management and effort reporting
- finance-related compliance (audit, indirect costs, equipment management, effort)

[***Clinical Trial Office***](mailto:cto@bmc.org) when:

- an industry sponsor seeks to activate a clinical trial protocol at a BMC or Boston University site
- a BMC grant proposal involves one or more clinical services, for pre-submission budget considerations, including coverage analysis, and for continuing support related to billing and clinical charge finances.

[***Clinical Research Network***](mailto:crn@bmc.org)*,* when you seek:

- specific temporary or part-time services (e.g., regulatory, finance) to start up, maintain, or close out your SP
- support on community and/or sponsor engagement and/or participant partnership,

### Click on the menu links to the left to access team webpages



  

 ### Resources

 [#### Research Careers with BMC

 

 ](https://bmc.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/BMC/)

 

 [#### Systems for Research/SPs

 

 ](/research-operations/bmc-systems-for-research)

 

 [#### Education and Training

 

 ](/research-operations/sponsored-programs-administration/primary-responsibilities)

 

 [#### Research Operations Forms

 

 ](/research-operations/forms)

 

 [#### SP Policy Library

 

 ](https://www.bmc.org/node/171472)

 

 [#### Contact Research Operations

 

 ](mailto:bmcresearch.operations@bmc.org)