Disclose, Disclose, Disclose!  All of the federal and major non-profit
agencies have procedures for handling that COI.  Peer review is an
important cornerstone of our system for allocating research funds, so that
system has to provide for getting the reviews by the peers without
excluding the peers from also seeking funding.  And does it very well.

Chuck

At 08:27 AM 4/10/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>Even then, I've had a case where the reviewer had submitted a proposal to
>the same program. He declared the conflict at the outset, and was assigned
>to a panel that would not review his proposal.
>RJS
>
>Carole Robarchek wrote:
>>  No. Not a conflict of interest unless reviewing your own or your own
>> colleagues' proposals.
>
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