School of Medicine Office of Research Administration
No. Faculty members and staff outside of ORA are not authorized institutional signatories and are not permitted to execute agreements on behalf of the University.
The authorized signatories for sponsored research agreements (contracts, grants, and cooperative agreements), as well as certain non-sponsored agreements (data use agreements, material transfer agreements, nondisclosure agreements, memoranda of understanding) are certain staff members within ORA to whom signature authority has been delegated by the Dean. A copy of the current SOM authorized signature delegation list can be viewed here.