Huron Research Suite

As the complexity and risk of the research enterprise continue to grow, institutions are accelerating the adoption of technology to improve efficiency and effectiveness. Huron Research Suite is a proven and comprehensive suite of software solutions tailor-made for managing the business of research. Flexible, scalable and with options for full configurability for any size research organization — with customers ranging from leading academic health centers and hospitals to both government and private research organizations.

Agreements

Tracking and logging third-party and internal communications and improving common processes can be time-consuming and heavily reliant on valuable resources. Research institutions can streamline the management of their financial and nonfinancial research agreements with Huron’s agreements solution. This comprehensive contract management solution allows institutions to maintain a single repository for all types of agreements, including nondisclosure, data use and material transfer.

Animal Operations

Improve vivarium staff and researcher productivity by streamlining management of animal resources with Huron’s flexible animal operations solution. With our solution, you can replace multiple time-consuming steps — including those associated with ordering, receiving, transferring, census management, animal vendor management, facility management, invoicing and billing — with a centralized, automated system that integrates and accelerates animal laboratory business processes.

Conflict of Interest

Eliminate process roadblocks, increase institutional compliance and streamline disclosure processes with Huron’s centralized conflict of interest (COI) management system. Our COI solution integrates annual disclosure data with related research certifications, such as institutional review board (IRB) studies and funding proposals, to simplify the identification, tracking and management of institutional relationships that could create conflicts.

Employee Compensation Compliance

For research institutions, it is critical to mitigate the institutional risks associated with noncompliant documentation of personnel costs. With Huron’s employee compensation compliance (ECC) solution, institutions can more effectively manage traditional effort reporting, project certification and payroll confirmation. Huron’s research experts work directly with leaders to review internal controls, policies and procedures, aligning institutional processes with Uniform Guidance requirements and implementing Huron’s ECC solution.

Export Control

Managing the complex regulations associated with the shipment of controlled equipment, software and other research innovations to foreign countries can be complicated. Huron’s export control solution helps institutions comply with federal and international laws, screen visitors to their facilities, manage data entry, and review workflows to improve the compliance of their export control program.

Grants

Managing grants accurately and timely requires the right governance and workflows. Simplify sponsored project life cycle processes while meeting sponsor and institutional compliance requirements with Huron’s grants solution, a flexible, scalable and configurable electronic grants management and system-to-system proposal-submission solution. Its robust, flexible workflows provide electronic routing for internal review, notifications and error checking, ensuring transparency and successful submissions every step along the way.

IACUC

To ensure compliance with animal protocols, research institutions must encourage collaboration between all stakeholders. Designed to support logical and efficient protocol data entry, Huron’s institutional animal care and use committee (IACUC) solution also improves collaboration between investigators, IACUC coordinators, training coordinators, veterinary reviewers, post-approval monitoring (PAM) coordinators and committee members through all IACUC activities from new protocols to de novo reviews.

IRB

Spend more time on mission-focused activities and less on protocol administration. With Huron’s institutional review board (IRB) solution, institutions can facilitate high-quality, compliant reviews with an easy-to-install, comprehensive and extensible electronic IRB solution. This solution combines Huron’s policy expertise and human research protection best practices with electronic workflow design patterns. Providing a comprehensive solution out of the box, Huron IRB can be rapidly configured to relieve administrative burden and free up time for mission-focused activities.

IRB Exchange

It is critical for research institutions to ensure a seamless, secure exchange of institutional review board (IRB) data with participating sites. Huron’s IRB exchange solution allows networks of collaborative research partners to share information electronically, enabling increased compliance. With secure, multi-institutional access to essential data, data entry errors are eliminated, and you are able to maintain regulatory compliance while increasing productivity. Developed by Huron, the leader in the IRB industry, this solution integrates with Huron IRB or can be used as a stand-alone solution.

Safety Committee

Strengthen your safety committee oversight processes while accelerating preparation, submission and review of research studies with Huron’s safety committee solution. Huron’s safety committee solution incorporates forms for biosafety, radiation safety, chemical safety and stem cell research oversight. The solution also improves collaboration between investigators, safety staff, safety officers and committee members through all safety activities from new protocols to amendments to continuing reviews.

Huron Financial Forecasting

Huron Financial Forecasting provides institutions with the insights needed to make data-driven budgetary and forecasting decisions. This patented solution enables research leaders to more accurately evaluate the performance of programs and investigators and model financial forecasts. Huron Financial Forecasting allows institutions to:

• Project future spending and indirect cost recoveries across all award types.
• Evaluate financial return on investment (ROI) associated with planned research investments.
• Evaluate department and individual investigator performance.