Managing Conflicting Interests
The National Institutes of Health, Office of Extramural Research initiated a web site to provide current information on conflict of interest: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/policy/coi/index.htm
Financial Conflict of Interest—Objectivity in Research: Institutional Policy Review, Notice: NOT-OD-03-026, February 10, 2003, National Institutes of Health
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-03-026.html
National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services have developed the resources to help ensure transparency regarding outside activities and proactive management of conflict of interest issues. http://www.nih.gov/about/ethics_COI.htm
The requirements of the National Science Foundation are almost identical to those of the U.S. Public Health Service and National Institutes of Health. http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2002/nsf02151/gpm5.htm