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Signing Officials

You can find all Commons users in your organization who are assigned the signing official (SO) role. Use the Signing Official and TTO Administrators pane in the Institution Profile module.

A Technology Transfer Office (TTO) Administrator supports the Technology Transfer/Licensing Office or Office of Research and Development at the grantee organization. The TTO administrator can submit inventions, patents, and utilization reports in iEdison, request waivers and create iEdison accounts. See Signing Official (SO) for more information on signing officials.

To view the information in the Signing Officials and TTO Adminstrators pane of the profile:

Log into eRA Commons.
Navigate to the Institution Profile module.
Under the Basic Information tab, find and expand the Signing Officials and TTO Administrators panel.

The information for each person displays as read-only.

Name
Phone Number
Email Address

Portion of the screen showing the SO & TTO Admin component

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