Conflict of Interest

The Department of Health and Human Services (PHS) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) both have set standards to ensure that the design, conduct, and reporting of research funded under PHS or NSF grants, cooperative agreements or contracts will not be biased by any conflicting financial interest of any of the investigators who are responsible for the research. These rules require that faculty investigators applying to NSF or PHS disclose to the University potential conflict of interests and that the University manage, reduce, or eliminate disclosed financial conflicts of interest.

All key personnel on a research project need to complete and sign a “Conflict of Interest” form. This is submitted to Contract and Grant Administration (CGA) at the same time as the transmittal form. Conflict of Interest forms can be downloaded from the CGA website at: http://www.cga.msu.edu/coiform.pdf

For more information, visit MSU Human Resources:
Conflict Situations
Guidelines for Potential Conflicts

In addition, the following NIH sites may be helpful:
Conflict of Interest
Panel on COI Policies