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

Bose, Santanu

Co-Chair
Veterinary Microbiology and Pathology (F)
Committee term end: 2028

Hernandez, Maria

Office of Research Operations (X)
Ex officio

Mazur, Ursula

Department of Chemistry (F)
Committee term end: 2028

O’Loughlin, Levi

Office of Research Assurances (X)
Ex officio

Smith, Lloyd

Co-Chair
School of Mechanical & Materials Engineering (F)
Committee term end: 2028

Steiger, Scott

Office of Commercialization (X)
Ex officio

VanDam, Mark

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