Updates. Recent updates to the COI Toolkit

NEW - Addition to Tools for Societies: A review of conflicts of interest, competing interests, and bias for toxicologists, LD Claxton, Toxicology and Industrial Health, 2007 (free full text).

News

NEW - FASEB Past President testifies before an Institute of Medicine Committee at a meeting on May 22, 2008

 

Science Magazine's Science Careers article, Playing Well with Industry, cites the COI Toolkit, March 14, 2008

 

FASEB urges IOM to promote more consistent management of academic-industry relationships in research, FASEB Washington Update, March 14, 2008
 

FASEB creates Toolkit to implement Conflict of Interest Framework, ORI Newsletter, September 2007

 

Stung by Controversy, Biomedical Groups Urge Consistent Guidelines, Science Magazine, July 27, 2007

 

FASEB hosted "Call to Action" and calls on community to endorse guideline, FASEB press release, July 20, 2007

 

FASEB: Nationalize conflict rules, The Scientist, July 17, 2007

 

Scientific Society Offers Guidelines and Plans Education Campaign on Conflicts of Interest, Chronicle Daily News, July 17, 2006

 

Council on Governmental Relations letter, July 9, 2007



Links to Toolkit

Organizations are encouraged to link to the COI Toolkit from their websites.

Let us know when you do! The following organizations have done so:

 

 

Institutions

 

George Washington University Medical  

     Center 

Illinois Institute of Technology 

Oklahoma State University 

Stanford University School of Medicine

Texas A&M University

University of Colorado Technology Transfer

University of Kentucky 

University of Miami 

University of Pittsburg 

University of Southern California 

The University of Texas Southwestern

     Medical Center at Dallas

University of Virginia Health System

Virginia Commonwealth University 

Wayne State University

 

 Societies

 

The following societies and associations have distributed to the Toolkit via their website or their online newsletters:

 

American Association of Anatomists  

American Association for the Advancement

     of Science

Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine

American Society for Biochemistry and

     Molecular Biology

American Society for Nutrition

American Society for Pharmacology and

     Experimental Therapeutics  

Association for Research in Vision and

     Ophthalmology

The American Association of Immunologists 

The American Physiological Society

The Protein Society

Welcome to the COI Toolkit

About

Academic-industry collaborations are a fundamental and beneficial part of modern biomedical science. However, the increase in number and complexity of these relationships has been accompanied by concerns about financial conflicts of interest (COI). This toolkit was developed to help the scientific community better navigate financial relationships between academia and industry. Guiding principles, recommendations, and practices were developed by a coalition of stakeholders (read more here). Maintaining the public trust and assuring the integrity of research is of the highest importance. More consistent policies and practices and better tools will serve to benefit the public and scientific community by fostering a healthy relationship between academia and industry.


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Funding provided by the Association of American Medical Colleges-Office of Research Integrity Responsible Conduct of Research Program for Academic Societies. Read more here (PDF)

 

 

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The Toolkit has had more than 3,450 visits since launch on July 17, 2007

 

 

Last updated June 25, 2008