
Campus Information

The Office of Research Administration (ORA) serves as a central resource to faculty and staff of both the Oklahoma City and Tulsa campuses for all aspects of research and for processing service contracts. The office provides information regarding funding sources, assistance in the submission of proposals to external sponsors, review of budgets and other form pages for compliance with University, federal, state and sponsor requirements, and negotiation of research and service contracts. ORA reviews, negotiates, and executes all basic research, clinical research, public service, professional service agreements and most provider and affiliation agreements. ORA serves as the institutional liaison with external agencies and organizations on all research administration and service contract matters. ORA has Institutional signature authority for submission of grants and execution of research and service-related contracts.
Each department, center or college on the Oklahoma City and Tulsa campus is assigned to a professional staff member as well as a member of our administrative team. Click here for a comprehensive list of ORA staff assignments.

Phone: (405) 271-2090 ♦ Fax: (405) 271-8651
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. M-F (Holiday Schedule)
Office of Research Administration
1000 Stanton L. Young Blvd., LIB 121
Oklahoma City, OK 73117-1213
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John Iandolo, Ph.D. was appointed as the OUHSC Vice President for Research, on January 1, 2010. Dr. Iandolo received a bachelor’s degree in bacteriology from Loyola University and master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Illinois. Prior to his arrival at the OU Health Sciences Center in 1997, he was a member of the faculty of Kansas State University where he served for 23 years in the Division of Biology and then in the Department of Pathobiology for 7 years. He was appointed a University Distinguished Professor in 1994. Dr. Iandolo was recruited to the OUHSC to serve as Professor and Department Chairman, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, a position he has held for the past 12 years. Under his leadership the Department of Microbiology and Immunology has been consistently ranked among the highest in NIH funding of all Microbiology Departments in the nation.
Dr. Iandolo is nationally renowned for his research in the areas of Staphylococcal infections and has been continually funded by the NIH for the past 35 years and is a past NIH MERIT award recipient. In addition to more than 100 publications in high quality scientific journals, Dr. Iandolo has served as Editor of Applied Microbiology and has been a member of numerous editorial boards. He has served and Chaired numerous grant review panels for NIH, USDA, NSF and other agencies.
The VPR at OUHSC oversees the Office of Research Administration, the Office of Laboratory Animal Resources, and OUHSC Core Laboratories. For more information on the VPR, click here.