Guide to Understanding Conflict of Interest
In Sponsored Research and Technology Transfer Agreements

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• What we are …the OVPR Conflict of Interest Review Committee reviews financial interest disclosures submitted to them and renders reasonable judgments as to whether the financial or management interests could directly and significantly affect the design, conduct, or reporting of research. If a conflict risk related to research or technology transfer is deemed to exist, this faculty committee works with faculty and staff to eliminate, minimize, or manage any actual or potential conflict of interest.
  -- If you are a Medical School faculty member, your conflict situations are reviewed by the Medical School COI Board.
• How to determine whether or not you need conflict of interest review and approval …
• What steps do you need to take and how does this process work …
• Who can help me with this process?
• Timeline table for conflict of interest reviews conducted in 2006.

Conflict of Interest Situations are Inevitable

The goal of the University's conflict of interest review and management system is to ensure that the personal interests of an individual do not unduly influence their primary obligations to Science, Sponsor, University, Colleagues or Students.

"You don’t have to do anything improper to have a conflict of interest; it is strictly situational"
-- Paul J. Friedman