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Orange Guide – Chapter 6: Clinical Research and Investigator-Initiated Research
As with other financial transactions that occur between Pfizer and HCPs, attempting to influence an
HCP’s prescribing behavior by providing money for research is illegal. The impact on an HCP’s
prescribing behavior must not be taken into consideration when deciding whether to engage him or her
as an investigator, or fund or support his or her independent medical research.
All requests for medical research support must be referred to Pfizer Medical Colleagues. Pfizer requires
investigators to submit requests for IIR grants through the IIR submission portal at www.pfizer.com/IIR.
Multi-disciplinary teams review IIR proposals for medical and scientific merit and study feasibility.
Non-compliance with policies applicable to those activities puts the Company at risk and can
subject Pfizer colleagues to disciplinary actions up to and including termination.
Key Points to Ensure Compliance
All decisions to engage a physician as a clinical investigator or to provide support for an IIR
study must be made by colleagues in a medical, clinical or scientific function.
Funding or other support for medical research may never be provided to:
o Establish or improve Pfizer’s relationship with an HCP;
o Gain or improve access to an HCP;
o Reward past prescribing or induce future prescribing; or
o Influence an upcoming formulary decision or reward a past formulary decision.
Do not attempt to influence a decision by Pfizer’s Medical Division to hire clinical investigators
or award grants for IIR based on the potential impact to Pfizer sales.
Do not provide starters (samples) to HCPs for use in clinical trials.
Types of Funding or Support
Pfizer will only fund and support legitimate medical research. Such research must seek to answer a
genuine scientific or clinical question through the researcher’s active scientific pursuit. The researcher
must be qualified to conduct the intended research, and be selected on the basis of his or her applicable
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