An example of an individual financial coi is: a researcher is considering buying stock in a publicly traded company that specializes in making and delivering hand tossed pizza. a researcher's wife works at the same university as the researcher. a researcher's wife holds equity in a publicly traded pharmaceutical company that is also the sponsor of the researcher's study. 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.