Strategic Focus Area 2: INFRASTRUCTURE & SUPPORT


Augusta University will strive to enhance and centralize research infrastructure and support resources to enable investigators and researchers (students, faculty, and staff) to conduct higher quality and more efficient research and scholarship.  The centralization of research resources may include institutional clinical trials office, regulatory research support, dedicated information technology systems and teams (i.e. bio-repository, clinical trial data management system, core lab system, etc.), and appropriate facilities.

Goal 2.1:

To improve support for research activities at Augusta University, research leadership and faculty will:

2.1.1  Evaluate current resources available to faculty in support of research and scholarly activities.

2.1.2  Develop, prioritize, and implement a plan to support faculty in their research and scholarly activities that could include, but not be limited to:

    • Increasing faculty education and training opportunities
    • Increasing training and career development awards
    • Developing processes for protecting research time
    • Developing and implementing faculty mentoring programs

2.1.3   Enhance the research environment by providing clinical trial data management, registry, and bio repository support and by providing Good Laboratory Practice Lab Animal Services and Good Clinical Practice testing programs.

2.1.4  Integrate and streamline processes for core lab marketing and services, and clinical research protocols.

2.1.5   Enhance research and clinical trial processes so that goals include facilitation of initiation and conduct of research.

Goal 2.2:

To improve the facilities available for research, research leadership with faculty input will:

2.2.1   Continue working with the master planning initiative in evaluating existing research space and allocations.

2.2.2  Develop prioritized recommendations for more efficient use of existing research space.

2.2.3  Identify development opportunities for expanding research space.

2.2.4  Expand wet and dry bench research space and establish designated clinical and translational research facilities for patient research (outpatient, inpatient, and community-wide) and laboratory science.

Goal 2.3:

To enhance the institutional-wide information technology services in support of research, institutional leadership will:

2.3.1   Increase the basic and specialized information technology support for research faculty.

2.3.2   Develop the information technology infrastructure to support research programs and increased research capabilities.