MIT has a responsibility to ensure that its teaching and research environment fosters the generation of new knowledge and positive learning opportunities for students and preserves the integrity of its research enterprise and the public’s trust.
Guidance, online training, and individual consultations are available on key security, integrity and compliance topics.
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While working under MIT’s open research policy, researchers must also comply with U.S. export control law, which regulates the transfer of potentially dangerous technology, tangible items, and software.
- Learn more: Export Control
- Training: CITI training on export control
- Policy: Research Policies and Procedures
- Contact: exportcontrolhelp@mit.edu
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MIT officers, faculty, and staff and others acting on its behalf must avoid or mitigate real or perceived financial conflicts of interest and ensure that their outside professional activities and interests do not conflict with their obligations to MIT or its welfare.
- Learn more: Financial Conflicts of Interest in Research, Outside Professional Activities, Assessing and Mitigating Risk
- Training: CITI training on conflicts of interest
- Policy: 4.4 Conflict of Interest and 4.5 Outside Professional Activities
- Contact: coi-help@mit.edu
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Members of the MIT community should be aware of concerns regarding undue foreign influence, regulations around exporting technology or tangible items, and interactions with restricted entities.
- Learn more: Foreign Engagement, Assessing and Mitigating Risk
- Training: CITI training on undue foreign influence
- Contact: research-compliance-help@mit.edu
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MIT is committed to fostering and maintaining a culture of integrity in research and to preventing situations and behaviors that could lead to allegations of research misconduct.
- Learn more: Research Misconduct
- Training: Responsible and Ethical Conduct of Research (RECR)
- Policy: 10.0 Academic and Research Misconduct and Dishonesty
- Contact: researchintegrity@mit.edu
Related Offices and Committees
Within and beyond the VPR, other committees and offices ensure the safe, lawful and ethical operation of MIT’s research activities in their respective areas of expertise.
- Environment, Health & Safety Office: Assists researchers in preparing proposal information on projects’ environmental impact and compliance with federal, state, and local regulations.
- Committee on Animal Care (CAC): Oversees animal research and ensures compliance with federal, state, local and institutional regulations.
- Committee on the Use of Humans as Experimental Subjects (COUHES): Reviews research activities that involve human subjects, whether directly or indirectly, that will be conducted by investigators at or from MIT.
- Committee on Assessment of Biohazards and Embryonic Stem Cell Research Oversight (CAB/ESCRO): Reviews investigations involving potential health and safety problems associated with biological research.
- Committee on Radiation Protection: Reviews and approves all uses of ionizing and non-ionizing radiation sources through a system of authorization/registration programs, risk assessments, and monitoring programs managed by the Radiation Protection Program (RPP).