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|  |  | In the research environment a conflict of interest exists when a researcher’s personal interests, such as career, reputation, or finances, inherently conflict with his/her professional obligations to the honest, objective, and responsible design, conduct, or reporting of research activities. In this situation, considerations of future funding based on timely and promising results combined with levels of external funding as a factor in tenure decisions could be seen as a conflict of interest in that the personal interest (career) might have the capacity to bias the researcher’s professional obligation to the honest, objective, and responsible design, conduct, or reporting of research activities.