An example of an individual financial CoI is:
(i) a researcher is considering buying stock in a publicly-traded company that specializes in making and delivering hand-tossed pizza.
(ii) a researcher's wife works at the same university as the researcher.
(iii) a researcher's wife holds equity in a publicly-traded pharmaceutical company that is also the sponsor of the researcher's study.
(iv) a researcher's 10-year-old son wins a local science competition, the prize for which is a $5,000 scholarship to a workshop sponsored by a local company that sponsors one of the researcher's ongoing projects.