Conflict of Interest Review Committee

Function

  • Reviews all pertinent documentation, including conflict of interest applications and management plans, relating to potential or actual financial conflict of interest cases based on federal and state law and University policy referred by the vice president for research
  • Recommends to the vice president for research what conditions and restrictions, if any, should be imposed by the University to manage the potential or actual financial conflict of interest

Composition and tenure

  • Minimum of 6 faculty with 3-year terms, appointed by the president upon recommendation of the vice president for research. (F)
  • Chair shall be appointed by the president upon recommendation of the vice president for research.
  • Ex officio, voting members (X)
  • Director, Office of Research Assurances
  • Director, Office of Commercialization
  • Director, Office of Research Operations and Support, who serves as coordinator

Quorum: more than 50% of the voting members

Responsible to the president through the vice president for research.


Committee membership

Fortenbery, Randy

School of Economic Sciences (F)
Chair 2022-2023
Committee term end: 2025

Bose, Santanu

Veterinary Microbiology and Pathology (F)
Committee term end: 2025

Kluzik, Mike

Office of Research Assurances (X)
Ex officio

Lazarus, Andrea

College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences (F)
Committee term end: 2025

Mazur, Ursula

Department of Chemistry (F)
Committee term end: 2024

Nordquist, Dan

Office of Research Operations and Support (X)
Ex officio

Pappu, Sita

Office of Commercialization (X)
Ex officio

Smith, Lloyd

School of Mechanical & Materials Engineering (F)
Committee term end: 2025

VanDam, Mark

Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine (F)
Committee term end: 2026