Contact Us

Main Office Contact Information

Telephone: (615) 322-2631

Fax: (615) 322-3827

Emails: spa@vanderbilt.edu (general & proposals)           
              subcontracts@vanderbilt.edu (subaward-specific questions)
              spapostawardteam@vanderbilt.edu (Post-Award questions)
              verahelp@vanderbilt.edu (VERA Help Ticket email)

MAILING ADDRESS:

Baker Building, Suite 800 
110 21st Avenue South
Nashville, TN 37203-2417

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Under the Office of the Vice Provost of Research and Innovation (OVPRI)   

Research @ Vanderbilt 

Jean Mercer
Senior Assistant Provost of
Sponsored Programs Administration & Compliance
Phone: (615) 343-4390
Email: jean.m.mercer@vanderbilt.edu

Grants & Awards

Contracts/Subcontracts

Training, Policy & Procedures

Research Administration Systems & Reporting

Departmental Assistance

  • BLAIR SCHOOL OF MUSIC

    • SPA Specialist: Michele Austin

  • COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES

    • SPA Specialist: Contact SPA@vanderbilt.edu

      • Anthropology

      • Art & Art History

      • Asian Studies

      • Center for Medicine, Health, & Society

      • Classical Studies

      • Chemistry

      • Classical Studies

      • Communication Studies

      • Earth & Environmental Sciences

      • Economics

      • English

      • European Studies

      • French & Italian

      • Germanic & Slavic

      • History

      • Jewish Studies

      • Latino & Latina Studies

      • Mathematics

      • Philosophy

      • Physics & Astronomy

      • Political Science

      • Psychology

      • Religious Studies

      • Spanish & Portuguese

      • Sociology

      • Theatre

      • University Press

      • Women's & Gender Studies

    • SPA Specialist: Tassall Lloyd

      • Biological Sciences

  • CURB CENTER

    • SPA Specialist: Michele Austin

  • DIVINITY SCHOOL

    • SPA Specialist: Michele Austin

  • GRADUATE SCHOOL

    • SPA Specialist: Michelle Wachter

  • LAW SCHOOL

    • SPA Specialist: Matt Kelly

  • LIBRARIES (JEAN & ALEXANDER HEARD): FINE ARTS GALLERY

    • SPA Specialist: Michele Austin

  • OWEN GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT
  • PEABODY COLLEGE

    • SPA Specialist:

      • Michele Austin

        • Center for Science Outreach

        • Human & Organizational Development

        • Leadership, Policy, and Organizations (LPO)

        • Peabody

        • Special Education

        • Susan Gray School

        • Teaching & Learning/Teaching Center

      • Contact SPA@vanderbilt.edu

        • ​Psychology & Human Development

  • SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

    • SPA Specialist:

      • Matt Kelly

        • Biomedical Engineering

        • Chemical Engineering

      • Tassall Lloyd

        • Civil Engineering

        • Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

        • Environmental Engineering

        • Institute for Software Integrated Systems

        • Institute for Space and Defense Electronics

        • Mechanical Engineering

        • Multiscale Modeling and Simulation (MUMS)

  • SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

    • BASIC SCIENCES

      • SPA Specialist: Michele Austin​

        • Cancer Biology

        • Brain Institute (POD3)

        • Drug Discovery (POD3) 

        • Molecular Physiology & Biophysics

        • Pharmacology (POD3)

      • SPA Specialist: Matt Kelly

        •  Biochemistry (POD2) 

        • Cell & Developmental Biology (POD2)

        • Center for Stem Cell Biology (POD2)

        • Institute for Chemical Biology (POD2)

        • Mass Spectrometry (POD2)​

        • Structural Biology (POD2)

        • Vanderbilt Institute of Chemical Biology (VICB) 

    • HEALTH SCIENCES EDUCATION

      • SPA Specialist: Matt Kelly

        • ​Office of Health Science Education

    • GRADUATE SCHOOL

      • SPA Specialist: Matt Kelly

        • BRET Office

        • Graduate School of Medicine

    • MEDICAL SCIENCE TRAINING PROGRAM

  • SCHOOL OF NURSING

    • SPA Specialist: Tassall Lloyd

  • UNIVERSITY PRESS

    • SPA Specialist: Michele Austin

  • VANDERBILT INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT (VIEE)

    • SPA Specialist Contact: Tassall Lloyd

  • WOND'RY (Vanderbilt's Innovation Center)

    • SPA Specialist: Michele Austin

Vanderbilt Principal Research-Related Offices