Overview
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:
eResearch
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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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COI Staff Dashboard > My Inbox tab
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Faculty and staff are required to disclose their outside interests annually in M-Inform per U-M, unit, and Public Health Service (PHS) financial conflict of interest (FCOI) regulations. Disclosing may include reporting that you do not have any outside interests related to your U-M responsibilities.
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Ombuds, Monitors, Other Approvers
Active COI Management Plans undergo an annual review process at which time the ombudsperson or monitor answers a short series of questions in M-Inform to submit updated information about the conflict situation and their role on the management plan to the COI Office.
Persons serving in multiple roles on the management plan must submit a response for each role.
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Research Initiated Certifications (RCs) created by the COI Office require the discloser to provide additional information about their outside interest disclosure by submitting responses to a series of questions. (See Submitting Information for a RC). While reviewing the discloser’s responses to these questions, the COI Office may require additional information from the discloser. If so, the discloser receives an email notification containing comments from COI Staff and a link to the RC.
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Upon reviewing your outside interest disclosure, the COI office may request additional information in the form of a Research Initiated Certification (RC) to help determine if a potential conflict of interest exists. This procedure outlines how to submit your responses to the COI Office via M-Inform after receiving an email notification of a Research Initiated Certification.
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The RC can be accessed via:
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COI Staff
COI Staff can update the Institutional Conflict of Interest (ICOI) flag in M-Inform for managed sponsors. The ICOI field is displayed on the COI Administrative Record (CAR) workspace.
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COI Staff Dashboard > Manage Sponsors tab
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COI Staff
After the COI Committee has approved the meeting minutes, COI staff must upload those minutes. At the next COI Committee Meeting, COI Staff can review, approve, and upload the previous meeting’s minutes.
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COI Staff Dashboard > Meetings tab