Significant financial interests

Significant financial interests (SFIs) in the UNH policy for PHS-funded projects include:

• Publicly traded entities: A SFI exists if the value of any remuneration received from the entity in the twelve months preceding the disclosure and the value of any equity interest in the entity as of the date of disclosure, when aggregated, exceeds $5,000. Remuneration includes salary and any payment for services not otherwise identified as salary (e.g., consulting fees, honoraria, paid authorship); equity interest includes any stock, stock option, or other ownership interest, as determined through reference to public prices or other reasonable measures of fair market value.


• Non-publicly traded entities: A SFI exists if the value of any remuneration received from the entity in the twelve months preceding the disclosure, when aggregated, exceeds $5,000, or when the investigator (or the investigator’s spouse or domestic partner or dependent children) holds any equity interest (e.g., stock, stock option, or other ownership interest).


• Intellectual property rights and interests (e.g., patents, copyrights): A SFI exists upon receipt of income related to such rights and interests. (This does not include intellectual property rights and interests assigned to UNH or royalty income received from UNH per the UNH Intellectual Property policy (UNH VIII.D.)


• Sponsored Travel: A SFI exists when an investigator (and/or investigator’s spouse/domestic partner and dependent children) in the twelve months preceding the disclosure engages in travel related to his/her institutional responsibilities which is paid for on behalf of the investigator and not reimbursed to the investigator so that the exact monetary value may not be readily known. This does not apply to travel that is reimbursed or sponsored by a Federal, state, or local government agency, an institution of higher education as defined at 20 U.S.C. 1001(a), an academic teaching hospital, a medical center, or a research institute that is affiliated with an institution of higher education.