co-investigator

Joint study colleague

A co-investigator is someone who shares responsibility for conducting a research project, typically alongside a principal investigator.

The term appears most often in academic and scientific contexts, where grants and studies may have multiple investigators with defined roles: She was listed as co-investigator on the NIH grant.

Also written coinvestigator.

academic

collaborator

One who works jointly

coauthor · proposal · funding · NSF · NIH · tenure · dissertation · postdoc · methodology · peer review

legal

detective

Professional crime investigator

suspect · witness · prosecutor · defense attorney · forensic · interrogation · subpoena · deposition · testimony · affidavit

clinical

trial

Judicial examination of claims

informed consent · placebo · blinding · randomization · site · enrollment · pharmaceutical · compliance · regulatory · endpoints

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co-investigatorPI

Investigator abbreviation

research assistant · lab technician · graduate student · postdoc

investigative role (active vs. passive)

co-investigatortest subject

Experiment participant

subject · participant · respondent · interviewee · patient

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