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COI Staff
After Administrative Review and COI Committee Meetings are complete, the COI Staff can record the Committee’s decision regarding the Research Initiated Certification in M-Inform. Continue with the steps below to Record Committee Decision, and refer to the Upload Approved Minutes procedure.
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COI Staff
If ORSP requests an annual report to the sponsor, the Research Certification (RC) and the COI Administrative Record (CAR) will need to be reopened. The process for reopening a PHS RC/CAR differs depending on whether or not the RC is under management.
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COI Staff
In determining whether a potential conflict of interest exists during review of a Research Initiated Certification (RC), COI Staff may find it necessary to request additional information from the discloser. The Request Input activity is available for RCs in the states of Admin Review and Admin Review: Response Received.
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This procedure outlines the steps to submit your response to the COI Management Plan via M-Inform after receiving an email notification to review it.
Disclosers/Conflicted Individuals
If a COI Committee determines that a conflict of interest exists based on the review of your outside interest disclosure(s) and applicable Research Initiated Certification (RC), the COI Office will send you a COI Management Plan for your response via M-Inform.
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Active COI Management Plans undergo an annual review process at which time you, as the conflicted individual, answer a series of questions in M-Inform to submit updated information about the conflict situation to the COI Office. This information may include, but is not limited to:
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A COI committee member or the COI staff can log in to M-Inform before a COI committee meeting in order to respond to a meeting request email and to review the agenda. This procedure will outline how to submit your response to the COI Office after receiving an email notification of a meeting and will provide an overview of the Meeting workspace in M-Inform.
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The Meeting can be accessed via:
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Ombuds, Monitors, and Other Approvers
If a conflict of interest may impact students or junior faculty assigned to the project, or if the project requires additional financial, scientific, or data oversight as a result of a conflict of interest, the COI Office assigns an ombudsperson or monitor to the COI Management Plan. The ombudsperson and/or monitor must review and respond to the COI Management Plan in M-Inform, as part of their role.
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The COI Management Plan can be accessed via:
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Unit Reviewers are responsible for reviewing and acknowledging outside interest disclosures for all personnel in their division, department, or unit (as applicable) who are required to disclose. As a reviewer, you also have the ability to assign another reviewer to an individual (i.e., a Special Reviewer).
This procedure is divided into the following sections:
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COI Staff
When a discloser identifies a new company they are an owner of, or has a relationship with (via the COI question on a PAF or by the U-M Innovation Partnerships), the COI Office creates a Company Profile, and then prompts the UM Company Contact Person to complete the Company Profile in M-Inform for conflict of interest review.
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COI Staff
If COI Staff determine during administrative review that a Research Certification (RC) requires review by a COI Committee, they must assign the RC to the appropriate review committee and add the RC to an upcoming meeting agenda.
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