There are a number of types of research agreements that investigators at CFRI might enter into:

Clinical Trial Agreement

• Involves research using human participants.
• Includes all phases from development to post-marketing trials.
• Can be industry-sponsored or investigator-initiated.

Industry-Sponsored Clinical Trial Agreement
Anita Chiu
Director, Finance
Phone:  (604) 875-2488
Email:  achiu@cfri.ca

Investigator-Initiated Clinical Trial Agreement
Yasmin Diaz
Manager, Clinical Research Agreements
Phone:  (604) 827-5025
Email:  yasmin.diaz@uilo.ubc.ca


Confidentiality/Non Disclosure Agreement
Protects confidentiality of certain information that is to be disclosed to a party.

Anita Chiu
Director, Finance
Phone:  (604) 875-2488
Email:  achiu@cfri.ca

Collaborative Research Agreements
Provide for the conduct of directed, collaborative, or joint research of mutual interest to the researcher and the company with shared rights and access to the results. There is an expectation that there may be new or incremental intellectual property developed within the project.

Iris Hnik
Internal Legal Counsel
Phone: (604) 822-0362
Email: iris.hnik@uilo.ubc.ca

Grant in Aid Agreement
Essentially a donation to one or more researchers, normally to conduct research in an area that is of mutual interest to both the donor and the researcher(s). These grants are normally in the form of a one page letter addressed to a researcher and signed by the donor, and accompanied by the grant funds. 

Harmony Ho
Industry Grants Officer
Phone: (604) 822-0892
Email: harmony.ho@uilo.ubc.ca

Government and Non-Profit Contracts and Agreements
With legal terms and conditions in the form of contractual deliverables or intellectual property terms.

Adriana Suarez-Blanch
Government Contracts Manager
Phone: (604) 822-8583
Email: adriana.suarez-blanch@uilo.ubc.ca


Invention Disclosure (Technology Transfer) Agreement
Concerns commercialization of research and licensing of technology to companies.

Jennifer Lynett
Technology Transfer Manager
Phone: (604) 827-5351
Email: jennifer.lynett@uilo.ubc.ca


Material Transfer Agreement
Is required whenever material (any chemical compounds or any form of biological materials, such as cultures, cell lines, plasmids, nucleotides, proteins, transgenic animals or plants, or pharmaceuticals) is being transferred from a provider to a recipient.

Nandita Chowdeiry
MTA Administrator
Phone: (604) 822-8020
Email: nandita.chowdhury@uilo.ubc.ca

Service Contracts
Are solely for testing, evaluation or analysis of materials or compounds owned by the Sponsor with no intellectual input or value-added by UBC.

Jennifer Schmidt
Industry Contracts & Agreements Manager
Phone: (604) 822-8167
Email: nataliya.karpenko@uilo.ubc.ca

Last updated: 11/03/2011