Last Updated: February 2025
The Lundquist Institute (TLI) actively supports its researchers in collaborating with industry, seeking broad consultation, and engaging in activities beneficial to participants, TLI, and the wider community. TLI ensures that these activities are carried out appropriately and in accordance with the principles of transparency, trust, and free exploration.
To achieve this goal, The Lundquist Institute’s Financial Conflict of Interest (FCOI) Policy includes the following provisions:
- It establishes ethical principles and guidance for Lundquist researchers/faculty and others involved in the research endeavor to evaluate their relationships and conduct with external entities, ensuring that employees act in the best interests of the institute while fulfilling their institutional duties.
- It educates the Institute’s Research community about situations that can lead to Conflicts of Interest, which may include equity interests such as stocks, stock options, or ownership stakes, memberships on boards of directors or scientific advisory boards, consulting relationships, and any activities that could result in legal obligations or expected remuneration from entities outside of The Lundquist Institute. The policy also outlines the management of these conflicts.
- It aims to maintain an appropriate balance among competing interests that could lead to bias in the design, conduct, or reporting of research, or adversely affect technology transfer transactions.
The implementation of The Lundquist Institute’s Policy is in accordance with the revised 2011 Public Health Service (PHS) regulations from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) concerning the Responsibility of Applicants for Promoting Objectivity in Research for which PHS Funding is Requested (42 C.F.R. Part 50, Subpart F), commonly referred to as the Financial Conflict of Interest (FCOI) regulations. These regulations, which took effect on August 24, 2012, are applicable to any institution receiving funding from a PHS entity, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
TLI’s FCOI Policy applies to all employees and research staff engaged in research funded by federal taxpayer dollars. Click here to read TLI’s FCOI Policy and Procedures.
TLI expects its investigators and employees to appropriately disclose financial and other interests in publications according to publisher guidelines. Guidance for appropriate and accurate disclosures can be found in the TLI COI Tip Sheet.
Questions about TLI’s Financial Conflict of Interest Policy should be directed to Research Compliance at [email protected] or 310-222-3624.