Managing Potential Conflicts of Interest

Some additional solutions for managing potential conflicts of interest that may be written into management plans are listed below:

Disclosure

- The researcher makes disclosures to the research sponsor.
- The researcher discloses to students his or her financial ties to a sponsoring company.

Oversight

- An ad hoc oversight committee reviews the research project semi-annually.
- Research data is managed by an existing multi-center data oversight committee.

Divestiture or Removing the Situation

- The researcher is replaced as principal investigator by an independent researcher with no relevant financial interest.
- The researcher removes himself or herself as students' primary advisor.
- The researcher resigns from a board or executive position.
- The researcher recuses himself or herself from board deliberations involving his or her own research.
- The researcher divests equity in a company which is sponsoring his or her research.