The ORHBS acts as catalyst implementing ISMETT's research mission and supporting research and all related activities working to establish a suitable environment for research.

Support ISMETT's values on intellectual commitment, integrity, and innovation while promoting research and creative activity on a Faculty level.

Act as role model creating a “culture of compliance with policies and procedures" and promoting the safety of research volunteers and of the research team, the appropriate treatment of animals used for research, the management of research funds, and the highest standards of ethics, integrity, and impartiality.

Develop opportunities, protocols, and infrastructures for Faculty and ISMETT staff encouraging creative ways of expression, carrying out quality research, and promoting an entrepreneurial culture beneficial to Sicilians.

Work with Faculty, staff, and inventors to identify, safeguard, and market various forms of intellectual property allowing the ISMETT research to generate new knowledge and applications of the existing know-how with a positive impact on the economic development and on society in general.

Promote, develop, support, and maintain the utmost quality of research at ISMETT.

Support the Faculty achieving the research goals.

Keep research as a priority in ISMETT's mission at a regional, national, and international level.

Promote a culture of excellence in research, and a compliance with regulations and internal/external policies and procedures.

Create and implement policies and procedures created to uphold ISMETT's research goals.

Provide support developing institutional research programs and strategies.

Ensure compliance with funding bodies’ guidelines and institutional protocols in the process of submitting research proposals and/or applications for research at ISMETT.

Monitor the research proposal reviewing process.

Support the Faculty identifying research opportunities and carrying out research.

Support clinical and/or basic research initiatives offering consultancy to develop projects, budgets, experimental design, statistical analyses, study start-up and coordination.

Monitor and manage data to ensure clinical studies are carried out effectively, in compliance with policies and procedures.

Support the establishing of partnerships and collaborations with academic institutions, enterprises, and other research institutions.

Review issues of intellectual property and transfer of technology. Work as liaison between ISMETT and the biomedical and biotechnology research external communities.