University and Mayo Clinic Partnership Principles

Make a difference to Minnesotans:

• Achieve breakthroughs in new methods to accurately diagnose - and develop innovative therapies for - major disease areas such as cancer, heart disease and neurological disease.
• This partnership will explore research that neither the University nor Mayo Clinic could conduct alone, and must be a joint project that uniquely recognizes the collaborative strengths of the University of Minnesota and Mayo Clinic investigators.
• All research findings will be made public: to the scientific community via peer- reviewed journals, and to the general public through news media.

Appropriate oversight:

• Individual patient data will remain confidential.
• All research will comply with all state and federal laws.
• All research will be subject to University and Mayo Clinic review boards that protect patients who participate in clinical research and animals used for research.
• Oversight of appropriate intellectual property and patent decisions will be made in accordance with existing institutional rules, policies and laws and negotiated between both institutions.
• There will be no research involving human reproductive cloning.

External input:

• Bioethicists working collaboratively between both institutions will provide input as part of the research review process.
• An external review panel of distinguished scientists will review all proposals eligible for funding. A joint University-Mayo panel will consider that input as they make final funding decisions.