InfoEd eRA Portal

InfoEd eRA Portal is a research administration software solution designed to streamline the research lifecycle for research institutions, universities, and corporations of all sizes. According to the vendor, this tool is used by research administrators, principal investigators, grant managers, compliance officers, and technology transfer offices in various professions and industries. With its extensive features and modules, InfoEd eRA Portal aims to support funding opportunity discovery, animal facilities management, clinical trials management, research compliance, research outputs management, and technology transfer management.

Key Features

SPIN Global Suite: According to the vendor, this feature offers customizable turnkey solutions for the SPIN funding database, helping researchers and principal investigators find funding opportunities. It provides text searching tools and filters to tailor searches and allows users to set up alerts for new or modified funding opportunities.

Animal Facilities Software: This feature tracks the disposition of animals throughout the research lifecycle, providing real-time information on animal facilities and ensuring compliance with animal care and use protocols. It links animal studies to related protocols, grants, and contracts, facilitating the management of animal research.

Clinical Trials Software: According to the vendor, this feature links clinical trials to related protocols, grants, and contracts, tracking trial progress and milestones. It manages conflict of interest information and patents related to trials, provides comprehensive reporting and analytics for trial management, and helps ensure compliance with clinical trial regulations.

Grants and Contracts Software: This feature supports the entire lifecycle of grants and contracts, facilitating proposal development and submission. It manages sub-recipient and sub-award collaborations, provides budget development tools, and tracks cost sharing. Additionally, it integrates with institutional financial systems for account setup and management.

Research Compliance Software: According to the vendor, this feature helps manage compliance with federal, state, and institutional governing bodies. It supports human studies IRB/ethics review processes, enables tracking of animal studies and IACUC protocols, assists with environmental safety compliance for research involving hazardous substances, and provides comprehensive reporting and analytics for compliance monitoring.

Research Outputs Software: This feature collects and reports on research outputs, helping institutions track and showcase research outcomes. It supports reporting requirements for funding agencies, provides data integration with other research administration modules, and enables analysis and visualization of research output trends.

Technology Transfer Software: According to the vendor, this feature manages compliance with federal, state, and institutional regulations for technology transfer. It facilitates the commercialization of research outputs, helps manage intellectual property and patents, streamlines the process of negotiating and executing technology transfer agreements, and provides comprehensive reporting and analytics for technology transfer activities.

Proposal Development Module: This web-based portal supports the preparation of grant applications for all sponsor types, including US federal agencies. It allows multiple users to collaborate on application development, automates data population and standard institutional data retrieval, and streamlines the submission process through system-to-system (S2S) submission.

Post Award Management Module: According to the vendor, this module manages the post-award phase of grants and contracts. It tracks and reports on award details and expenditures, supports sub-recipient and sub-award management, enables budget development, re-budgeting, and expense forecasting, and integrates with institutional financial systems for account setup and financial management.

Human Studies IRB/Ethics: This feature streamlines the review process for human studies protocols, allowing researchers to submit protocols electronically. It provides customized stakeholder views for researchers, administrators, and committees, automates agenda generation and meeting minutes, and supports compliance with federal, state, and institutional ethics regulations.