For each proposal submitted through the Cayuse system, PIs and other key personnel will be required to complete a brief conflict of interest disclosure. The link to that will be generated from within Cayuse and emailed to project personnel. Please contact your OSP Specialist if you have any questions. For questions related to the annual COI disclosure requirements for UNCG, please refer to the Conflict of Interest website.

As a condition of federal funding, the University must establish procedures that provide a reasonable expectation that the design, conduct and reporting of research will be free from bias resulting from Investigator Financial Conflict of Interest (FCOIs or COIs).

Federal regulations required that UNCG:

1. Maintain a current, documented, and enforced COI policy
2. Educate Investigators as to UNCG’s COI policies and procedures
3. Facilitate and ensure Investigator compliance with initial and ongoing COI disclosure requirements
4. Identify and manage COIs
5. Flow down sponsor COI requirements to subrecipients/collaborators
6. Meet sponsor and other COI reporting requirements

To comply with these requirements, UNCG has instituted online COI training and require that a COI disclosure form be completed.  Any person who is responsible for the design, conduct or reporting of research must complete the training and disclosure form.  This always includes: 1) Principal Investigator/Project Director and 2) Key Personnel (an individual who contributes in a substantial and measureable way to a project. This may also include: 1) Outside collaborators (e.g. subrecipient Investigators, consultants) and 2) Any other faculty, staff, post-docs, graduate students, or even technicians identified in the proposal.

Individuals can access the COI Training through Cayuse or can go to the COI Training page or login to AIR and click the COI Training link in the menu options at the top of the page to complete the certification process.

UNCG requires the completion of the COI training at least once every four years.

For questions, please contact Melissa Skillings, Assisant Director of the Office of Research Integrity, at 336.256.0253 or mkskilli@uncg.edu.

For UNCG Policy on Access to and Retention of Research Data, please refer to the UNCG Policy Manual.

For Information on Data Management in Research, refer to the Office of Research Integrity, Responsible Conduct of Research.

For UNCG Policies Relating to General Data Safety and Security, Please refer to the UNCG Policy Manual.

For the most up to date information on UNCG Export Control (i.e., the shipment or transfer of export-controlled technical data, information, materials and equipment to destinations outside the United States, as well as the provision of access to certain export-controlled technical data, information, materials or equipment to non-U.S. persons within the United States), please refer to the website of UNCG Export Control.

For the most up to date information on the Institutional Review Board (IRB), the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC), the Institutional BioSafety Committee (IBC), the Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) program, and Human Subjects and Animal Subjects (IRB/IACUC/CITI) training, please refer to the Office of Research Integrity.

For the most up to date information on Human Subjects Payments, refer to “Procedure 3 Preparing the Budget” from the Office of Contracts & Grants.