Steering Committee Standards
The Steering Committee works to ensure the Partnership is creating scientific advancements and major improvements in health care to benefit Minnesota.
It seeks to make a difference to Minnesotans
- Achieve breakthroughs in new methods to diagnose and treat major diseases
- Explore research that neither the University nor Mayo Clinic could conduct alone
- All research findings will be made public
It seeks to provide 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
It seeks 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