MGH Research Resource Guide
Academic Promotions
The center for Faculty development provides a number of resources regarding academic promotions.
| Center for Faculty Development | CFD@Partners.org | (617)-724-0818 |
| Office for Faculty Affairs | OFA_Promotions@HMS.Havard.edu | (617)-432-7112 |
Animal Research Resources
MGH is committed to ensuring the humane care and use of all animals associated with its research program and complies with federal, state and local regulations and policies regarding their care. This is accomplished through the oversight by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) and support from the Center for Comparative Medicine (CCM).
All research, teaching, and testing projects conducted by faculty, staff, or students involving animal subjects at MGH must be reviewed and approved by the IACUC prior to engaging in the research or other endeavors.
| Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) | IACUC@mgh.harvard.edu |
| Center for Comparative Medicine | MGHCCM@partners.org |
Annual Career Conference
Once a year, a faculty member and his or her leader (chief, division chief, lab director or principal investigator) will meet to discuss that faculty member’s career development. The Center for Faculty Development Faculty Council developed a standard form for all faculty members. Departments may use an alternate form provided it is approved by the council.
Before the meeting, you should: be prepared to discuss accomplishments, update your CV, think about developing mentoring relationships, clarify your contributions and the leader’s expectations, develop an action plan that improves productivity, and discuss how your skills align with your department’s mission.
Resources:
Benefits for Professional Staff
The MGH/MGPO provides a comprehensive benefits program for monthly paid professional staff (MDs and PhDs) that offers each eligible member the opportunity to design a personalized benefits program to meet their needs and those of their family. Detailed information about staff benefits and services is available on the intranet site (accessible from a MGB workstation). Benefits Consultants are available to help ensure that our professional staff members maximize all of their benefits opportunities
Faculty and fellows, please call the main number (617-726-9267) to attend benefits orientation which is offered every Tuesday, or click the link above to schedule an individual appointment.
The MGH Perks Program offers discounts and programs from organizations and retailers in the Boston area and nationally. The program is available to all MGH employees and Mass General Brigham employees that are located at MGH and/or directly support MGH. If you are affiliated with Harvard and have a Harvard identification number and PIN, you also receive certain key discounts and services.
Biostatistics Center
The Biostatistics Center provides support to MGH investigators, as well as serving as a Coordinating Center for several NIH supported projects. The Center’s staff includes biostatisticians, physicians, research nurses, data managers, project managers, research assistants, and computing staff.
Internal Resources
The Biostatistics support center is designed to provide researchers at MGH with the tools necessary to complete basic statistical analysis.
The Biostatistics Tool page provides information about data bases such as RedCap and study TRAX as well as external resources such as the American statistical association, the MIND center for Interdisciplinary informatics, and checklist for study design, to name a few
Career Advice
The Center for Faculty Development (CFD) offers individual consultations for: career advice/professional development, navigating the Harvard Medical School (HMS) promotions process, HMS curriculum vitae (CV) review, managing relationships in the lab, and much more.
| Clinical Faculty Members | clinicalcareers@partners.org | (617)-724-1382 |
| Graduate Students | gsd@partners.org | (617)-724-0818 |
| Research Faculty | orcd@partners.org | (617)-643-1606 |
| Research Trainees | pdd@partners.org | (617)-726-0568 |
| Women Faculty Members | womens.careers@partners.org | (617)-724-5229 |
Center for Diversity and Inclusion
The Center for Diversity and Inclusion (CDI) provides numerous career-enhancing resources to students, trainees and faculty who are underrepresented in medicine to support their unique professional paths and expand their aspirations and goals. We also help educate our workforce on cross-cultural interactions with patients and colleagues, contributing to a more inclusive and welcoming hospital environment.
Center for Faculty Development (CFD)
The Center for Faculty Development (CFD) was established to facilitate career development of ALL MGH faculty. This umbrella organization addresses all aspects of faculty development, as well as, specializing on the clinical faculty through the Office for Clinical Careers (OCC), the research community through the Office for Research Career Development (ORCD) and Graduate Student Division and the women faculty through the Office for Women’s Careers (OWC).
Core Facilities
The shared interdepartmental facilities at Mass General Brigham bring state-of-the-art instrumentation, methodologies and expertise crucial to the promotion of research at Mass General Brigham. The Mass General Brigham cores not only provide high quality, cutting edge research services by our in-house experts but also constitute a major educational resource for our growing research enterprise.
| Core Facilities Office | PHSResCoreFac@partners.org | (857) 282 1770 |
Division of Clinical Research
The mission of the Division of Clinical Research (DCR) at Massachusetts General Hospital is to support researchers in their efforts to increase the quantity, quality and efficiency of translating basic science advances into improved care for our patients.
| Division of Clinical Research Office | Clinicalresearch@Partners.org | (617)-724-5200 |
English as a Second Language
The Office for Research Career Development (ORCD), with the support of the Executive Committee on Research (ECOR), has offered ESL for Researchers to the MGH research community twice a year in the Spring and Fall semesters. Many foreign-born research scientists may be hindered by limited verbal presentation skills necessary to present their work both informally at departmental colloquium and nationally at research conferences. The ORCD ESL course covers speaking and listening skills, pronunciation, vocabulary, and American culture.
Please note these classes are intended for the MGH research community.
| Office for Research Career Development | ORCD@partners.org | (617)-643-1606 |
Executive Committee on Research (ECOR)
The Executive Committee on Research (ECOR) of Massachusetts General Hospital was established in the late 1940s. Meeting twice-monthly, this committee is the central body for research governance, bringing together a broad representation of internal stakeholders to provide strategic guidance to the hospital’s leadership regarding research priorities.
| Executive Committee on Research (ECOR) | ECOR@MGH.Harvard.edu | (617)-643-7420 |
Funding Opportunities
| Center for Diversity and Inclusion Awards | The purpose of this program is to increase opportunities for faculty who are underrepresented in medicine, and who are committed to diversity, inclusion and equity, to advance to senior positions in academic medicine and leadership at MGH. |
| Center for Expertise | The Centers of Expertise in Global and Humanitarian Health, Heath Policy and Management, Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety, and Medical Education offer two funding cycles each academic year. The fall cycle opens in August/September and the spring cycle opens in December/January. |
| COS Pivot | Is an external resource created to help guide researchers towards finding funding sources. The funding opportunities are undated daily, and keyword searches all the researcher to discover funding opportunities directly related to their research. Trouble navigating Pivot? Please contact Amy Robb |
| Executive Committee on Research (ECOR) | Reviews nearly 800 applications from MGH investigators and fellows and awards approximately 150 internal grants. ECOR helps to support faculty by providing interim/bridge funding for projects whose funding sources have been delayed or otherwise interrupted. ECOR also awards MGH specific awards including but not limited to; The Claflin Award, The Fund for Medical Discovery (FMD), The Howard Goodman Fellowship, The Martin Prize, etc. |
| HMS Foundation Grants | The HMS Foundation Funds Program administers the nomination process for HMS/HSDM faculty and postdocs for funding opportunities from private foundations that require candidates to be nominated by either Harvard Medical School or Harvard University. The HMS awards can serve as a crucial funding source for researchers in early stages of their career |
Harvard Catalyst
Harvard Catalyst is a pan-Harvard University enterprise dedicated to improving human health. It leverages the intellectual force, technologies, and clinical expertise of Harvard. Its academic, health care, and community partners all share a common goal of improving human health. More information regarding Harvard Catalyst can be found in the table below:
| Resource | Description |
| People and Collaboration | Find researchers with whom to collaborate; get advice on grant development; find web-based tools to help develop a grant proposal or manage a project. |
| Consulting and Advice | Expert advising services for clinical and translational investigators, ranging from general guidance on research design to consultations in areas like biomedical imaging and biostatistics. |
| Education and Training | Harvard Catalyst offers more than a dozen courses and training programs. In addition, the Advanced Curriculum Compendium helps you find more than 100 advanced research courses offered by Harvard affiliated schools and academic healthcare centers. |
| Funding | Pilot grants for Harvard investigators who need such funds for early stage research; Tools for a successful grant application. |
| Research Resources | Harvard Catalyst offers clinical and translational investigators what they need to conduct clinical experiments, including clinical research nursing, research dietitian support, experimental design assistance, sample processing, data management, and information about core facilities. |
| Programs | Harvard Catalyst is organized into 11 programs, which serve the diverse needs of the Harvard clinical and translational research community. |
Harvard Medical School Resources
Resource |
Description |
| Countway Library | The Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, an alliance of the Boston Medical Library and Harvard Medical School, is one of the largest medical libraries in the world and serves the Harvard Medical School, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston Medical Library, and the Massachusetts Medical Society. |
| Ecommons | The eCommons Portal is a gateway to various online resources at HMS such as the Digital Library and the HMS Event calendar. eCommons also provides links to Financial applications as well as news and information about the HMS community. Users can build an organizational site by using the eCommons OrgEditor templates or by creating links to external websites. |
| E-Research at Harvard Libraries | Using your Harvard ID, you can identify, locate and connect to electronic resources and journals, and use tools to search multiple resources at one time. |
| Harvard ID | Harvard Faculty and staff are eligible to receive a Harvard ID Card which provides visual identification while on campus and access to various University services. Please visit an ID office with a government-issued photo ID. |
| Office for Faculty Affairs | The Office for Faculty Affairs is responsible for the implementation and management of the faculty appointment process, governance, and other faculty-related matters at HMS and the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. |
| Office for Postdoctoral Fellows | The mission of the Office for Postdoctoral Fellows is to provide a central information and consultative resource for matters pertaining to the postdoctoral experience, to enhance that experience as much as possible by implementing programs for fellows and to assist in managing the relationship of this group to the Medical School, the University and the national community. |
| Ombuds Office | The Ombuds Office provides students, faculty, staff and trainees of HMS, Harvard School of Dental Medicine and Harvard School of Public Health with a highly confidential and informal forum in which to help them to clarify their concerns, identify their goals and consider all of their options in managing or resolving their concerns. |
| Scholars at Harvard | Scholars at Harvard offers you the next generation scholarly website. With it, you can easily create and manage a highly dynamic, powerful, and customizable site, with an easy-to-use interface and a look and feel that is uniquely yours. Your scholarly work will be automatically submitted to important indexing organizations (such as Google Scholar, RePec, ISI, and others more), making it easier for others to find and cite your work. |
Help and How To
Help and How To is an e-resource designed to help you find information that is frequently referenced by the research community.
International Review Board (MGB IRB)
We are the Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) of The Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Inc. (BWH), The General Hospital Corporation doing business as Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), and The McLean Hospital Corporation (McLean), known collectively throughout these institutions as the Mass General Brigham System Institutional Review Boards (the “MGB IRBs”) or the MGB Human Research Committees (HRC).
The HRC are authorized to review and oversee human-subjects research that is conducted by employees or agents (e.g., professional staff) of the BWH, FH, MGH, McLean and NSMC in connection with their institutional responsibilities, regardless of the location of the research or source of funding, in accordance with federal, state, and local laws and regulations.
| Useful IRB Information | Description |
| Amendments | Any and all proposed changes to approved human subjects research must be reviewed and approved by the IRB before the changes can be initiated unless the change is necessary to eliminate apparent immediate hazards to the subject. There are four general categories of amendments. Study Staff
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| Collaborative Institutional Training Initiatives | Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) subscribe to The Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI) Program at the University of Miami for human subjects research training. For more information see CITI Program web site. |
| Consent Forms | The Mass General Brigham Human Research Committee has developed templates, instructions, checklist and tools & tips for the preparation of research consent forms. |
| New Protocols | The Mass General Brigham Human Research Committee Insight/eIRB intervention/interaction form captures information relevant to the review of protocols that involve an intervention or interaction with research subjects. |
| PHRC Policy and Guidance | A core mission of the Mass General Brigham Mass General Brigham and Partners in general, is to advance care through excellence in biomedical research. Consistent with this core mission, the HRPP’s mission is to help ensure that Mass General Brigham and its hospitals protect human subjects participating in research in accordance with legal requirements and ethical guidelines. |
| Reporting Problems and New Information | Reports of problems or new information (Other Events) that may have an impact on the risk/benefit assessment must be reviewed by the IRB to ensure that the risks to subjects are still minimized and reasonable in relation to the anticipated benefits, if any, and the importance of the knowledge that may reasonably be expected to result from the research. The IRB may allow the research to continue with no changes or require changes to the research or other corrective actions to protect the safety, welfare, or rights of subjects or others. |
| IRB Help Line | IRB@partners.org | (857) -282-1900 |
Isuggest
The ultimate goal of Isuggest is to reduce the administrative burden and improve the organizational efficiency for the research enterprise at Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Mass General Brigham. Established as an extension of the Continuous Research Operations Improvement (CROI) Program, the Isuggest platform serves as a bridge between the research-community and administration, leveraging community-driven insights into optimizing research efficiency, support, and related processes.
| Isuggest | Isuggest@partners.org | (617)-724-IDEA (4332) |
Lease Guaranty Program
Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) is offering the “Lease Guaranty Program” for the MGH Research Fellows.
Through the Lease Guaranty Program, MGH will guaranty payment to a landlord under specified circumstances. The Lease Guaranty program does not provide cash or money in any form. The benefit of this program is that instead of a fellow providing an advanced payment, a landlord will accept the Lease Guaranty document and its conditions. In return, the Research Fellow agrees to reimburse MGH for any payment MGH is required to make under the Guaranty.
MGB Institutional Biosafety Committee
The mission of the Mass General Brigham Institutional Biosafety Committee is to promote safety and minimize the risks of performing biological research to Mass General Brigham investigators, study participants, the community, and the environment by providing scientific review and oversight to human subjects and laboratory biological research at MGB Institutional Biosafety Committee institutions.
MGB Innovation Office
Mass General Brigham Innovation is advancing the commercialization of new medical technologies from Mass General Brigham’ academic medical centers. Bringing together specialists in medical licensing, research contracts, ventures and business development, we partner with investigators, scientists and clinicians to commercialize new medical technology into healthcare practice via a variety of business channels.
Orientation
The Department of Human Resources provides a comprehensive Institute New Employee Orientation program for all new faculty and staff. In addition, all faculty will attend New Faculty Orientation (For Faculty Only) and all staff and faculty will have a School and Department Orientation that will include job/position specific orientation and training.
New Employee Checklists
- “Before Starting” Checklist
- “Your First Days” Checklist
- “Your First Weeks” Checklist
- “Your First Months” Checklist
- “Your First Year” Checklist
Police and Security
MGH Police, Security, and Outside Services strives to protect the research community by achieving the right balance between open collaboration, architecture, and prudent security designed to minimize research risks.
The real threats, particular to the research community, in addition to crime and workplace violence include: sabotage, espionage, activism, cyber crime, and intellectual property theft.
MGH Police, Security, and Outside Services needs your help in order to protect the vast research community. Cooperation and collaboration will lead to a safer, more secure environment with minimal disruptions.
| Administrative Office | Wang Suite 232 | (617)-724-3030 |
| Confidential Tip Line | mghpolice@partners.org | |
| Emergency Contact (instead of 911) | Main Campus: (617)-726-2121 | CNY: (617)-726-5400 |
Research Administration Training Program (RATP)
PHS Research Management’s Training and Workforce Development team strives to meet the training needs of the research community at BWH, MGH, McLean and Spaulding. The team’s goal is to provide the technical knowledge required by Principal Investigators (PIs), Department Administrators (DAs) and RM employees to facilitate the ongoing administrative and financial requirements of sponsored research projects within Mass General Brigham. The team is also committed to the professional development of these employees and offers several courses designed to enhance and expand interpersonal skills.
| Research Administration Training Program (RATP) | RMTraining@partners.org |
Research Compliance
The goal of the compliance office to provide the MGH research community with the highest level of guidance, education, and support to correlate with the world renown research that takes place to MGH. The compliance office can help researchers with compliance leadership, the development of policies, education and training, communicating and reporting, monitoring and auditing, and prompt response to issues.
Research Information Services and Computing
Research Information Services & Computing (RISC) supports research by providing scientific services and technology, a centralized clinical data registry, genomics IT, specimen banking, and administrative systems. These specialized applications, processes and resources support basic, biomedical and clinical research missions across the academic medical centers of Mass General Brigham.
| Enterprise Research Infrastructure and Services | ERIS Provides information services and technologies to enable and drive innovation in research across the academic medical centers of Mass General Brigham. |
| Phenotype Discovery Center | PDC is developing computational methods and platforms to help harness the power of big data in the field of medical research across all Mass General Brigham institutions. |
| Research Patient Data Registry | RPDR is the centralized clinical data registry/warehouse directed by Research IS & Computing ‘s Director, Shawn Murphy, M.D. PhD. The RPDR gathers data from hospital systems and stores it in one place, bringing clinical information to a researcher’s fingertips and ensuring the security of patient information. |
| Partners Personalized Medicine | PPM translates and integrates the science of genetics and genomics into medical practice. Its focus is on constantly increasing the benefit genetics provides for patients facing life threatening and debilitating disease |
Research Safety Office
This manual consolidates in one place policies, procedures and other information relative to safety and health for the research community. Some of the content is incorporated via links to existing documents managed by individual departments responsible for specific subject matter. It provides the general safety information applicable to everyone that will complement the lab-specific material you will get within your specific work area.
To access the Research Safety Manual, please click here.
Research Safety Training
In order to work in a some research environments, extra safety training may be required.
Research Space Management
Research Space Management is responsible for overall space management of the research enterprise within MGH.
| Policies |
| Minors Visiting Research Space |
| Equipment |
| Pets in Research Space |
| On-site versus Off-site Rates |
| Space Allocation |
Thematic Centers
Massachusetts General Hospital is home to five thematic research centers where clinicians and scientists chart new terrain in biomedical research to treat and prevent human disease and bring the latest advances to patient care. Each center works to develop creative approaches to treat a broad spectrum of disease.
| Center for computational and integrative Biology (CCIB) | info@ccib.mgh.harvard.edu | (617)-643-3300 |
| Center for Genomic Medicine (CGM) | (617)-724-3091 | |
| Center for Regenerative Medicine (CRM) | dmachon@partners.org | (617)-724-5780 |
| Center for Systems Biology (CSB) | dmoschella@mgh.harvard.edu | (617)-643-0500 |
| Wellman center for photomedicine | nvonhone@partners.org | (617)-726-0812 |
Translational Research Center
The Translational Research Center is the engine that moves science form the laboratory to the hospital and back again. Translational researcher works closely with basic scientists to identify new discoveries that have promising medical applications. They partner with clinicians to test the efficacy of these treatments in humans.
Treadwell Library
Treadwell Library is the health sciences virtual library for the MGH community and provides resources to get reliable information for patient care, teaching and research.
| Treadwell Contact | treadwellQ&A@partners.org | General Phone: (617) -726-860 | Consultation line: (617)-726-8605 |
Work Life Resources
| Child Care Resource Page | Backup Child Care- (617)- 724-7100 IHP Children’s Quarters – (617)-726-6010 MGH Children’s Center – (617)-726-5437 |
| Employee Assistance Program | (866)-724-4EAP (4327) |
| Food (Platinum Plate Express) | (617)-724-8879 |
| Harvard University Credit Union | (617)-495-4460 |
| Parking and Commuter Services | Commuter Services: (617)-724-6588 Parking Office: (617)-726-8886 |
| Photography | (617)-726-2237 |
| The Club at Charles River Park | (617)-726-2900 |