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Updates. Recent updates to the COI Toolkit
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
- 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
Texas A&M University
Universityof Kentucky
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
American Society for Nutrition
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
The American Association of Immunologists
The American Physiological Society
The Protein Society
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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.
Toolkit Components
- Introduction About financial relationships between academia and industry in biomedical research, regulations and policies, and current activities
- Guiding Principles Recommended principles for policy development and individual behavior
- Tools Recommended practices and tools for implementation
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