Policy #54
Appendix B

Management of Significant Financial Interest

The designated official(s) must review all financial disclosures, determine whether Significant Financial Interests could affect the design, conduct, or reporting of the research activities funded by the federal agency, or proposed for such funding, and determine what conditions or restrictions, if any, should be imposed by the institution to manage such interests. Examples of conditions or restrictions that might be imposed to manage actual or potential conflicts of interest include:

A. public disclosure of significant financial interests

B. monitoring of research by independent reviewers;

C. modification of the research plan;

D. disqualification from participation in all or a portion of the research funded by the federal agency;

E. divestiture of significant financial interests; or

F. severance of relationships that create actual or potential conflicts

Posted June 08, 1999