Disclosure forms are to be completed by all sponsor-funded Principal Investigators (PIs)/Project Directors (PDs) and their families that hold potential to directly and significantly affect the design, conduct or reporting of sponsored research/programs.
Significant Financial Interest (SFI) Descriptions:
- Equity Interest – Non-publicly traded entity (e.g., stock, stock option, or other ownership interest)
- Equity Interest – Publicly traded entity (e.g., stock, stock option, or other ownership interest)
- Intellectual property rights (e.g., royalties, patents, copyrights) not from the awardee institution
- Investment vehicles, such as mutual funds and retirement accounts, controlled by the investigator
- Payment for services (e.g., consulting fees, honoraria, paid authorship)
- Reimbursed or sponsored travel
- Salary not from the awardee Institution
- Advisory Board or Committee
- Other (Provide an explanation that describes the SFI)*
Forms are to be completed:
1. Intitially, upon submission of a sponsored program proposal.
2. Thereafter, disclosure forms must be updated:
a. Within 30 days of discovering or acquring a new significant financial interest.
b. Annually in the period of an award, beginning with the anniversary date of the original disclosure.