About COI
The Office of Research Compliance (ORC) at UC Riverside (UCR) supports the Conflict of Interest (COI) Committee. ORC serves as a liaison and collaborator between UCR faculty, staff, offices, and sponsors to ensure complete review, management, and reporting of conflicts of interests related to research performed at UCR.
The COI committee is comprised of faculty from the campus and serves as an advisory to the Vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development (VC-RED). As investigators at UCR are subject to University of California (UC) policies, State of California, and Federal Regulations, the COI Committee makes recommendations based on the polices and regulations to the VC-RED regarding managing, reducing, or eliminating conflict of interests of UCR investigators. This process helps the COI Committee’s primary goal of promoting research objectivity by maintaining and upholding standards that provide a reasonable expectation of the design, conduct, reporting, and purpose of UCR research by ensuring that it will be free from bias.. Chancellor for Research and Economic Development (VC-RED). As investigators at UCR are subject to University of California (UC) policies, State of California, and Federal Regulations, the COI Committee makes recommendations based on the polices and regulations to the VC-RED regarding managing, reducing, or eliminating conflict of interests of UCR investigators. This process helps the COI Committee’s primary goal of promoting research objectivity by maintaining and upholding standards that provide a reasonable expectation of the design, conduct, reporting, and purpose of UCR research by ensuring that it will be free from bias.
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What is a Conflict of Interest?
A COI is when an Outside Interest is related to an investigator’s institutional responsibilities and could or may appear to affect the design directly and significantly, conduct, or reporting of research.
Outside financial interests should be reported in Kuali per the research sponsors regulation. Outside financial interests are any financial interests and other personal interests or relationships with an external entity that are related to an investigator’s institutional responsibilities. These financial interests include but are not limited to income, travel, equity, intellectual property rights. Positions constitute an outside financial interest whether paid or unpaid. Financial interests and positions of immediate family members are included in outside financial interests.
When investigators share their financial interests per the research sponsors regulation, this assists in promoting transparency and accountability, financial disclosures also protect the researcher’s interests by 1) meeting the requirements set by sponsors and the University, 2) having the COI committee, an objective third party, review the financial interests and the research, and 3) demonstrating a commitment to scientific integrity.