Research & Academia

Collaborator screening for
research that travels.

A joint paper, a visiting fellow and a funded programme are all transfers of knowledge to a named party in a named place. Research security asks who that party is, and the answer is rarely in the grant application.

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450+
Sanctions & PEP datasets: 147M+
Entities indexed: Named parties
People and institutions

Compliance challenges

What keeps your compliance team up at night.

The institution behind the collaborator

An academic is affiliated, and the affiliation can be designated even where the individual is not.

Funding whose origin is indirect

A grant arrives from a foundation that is funded by an entity that is subject to measures, and only the first link appears on the paperwork.

Visiting researchers and controlled technology

Under the US deemed-export rule, giving a foreign national access to controlled technology can be an export without anything leaving the building; in the UK, visiting researchers in sensitive subjects need ATAS clearance.

Dual-use research with a civilian description

The control follows the specification of the knowledge, not the department it sits in.

Diligence at proposal speed

Funding calls have deadlines. A check that arrives after submission is a check that shaped nothing.

Showing the committee what you saw

Research ethics and security committees decide on evidence, and undocumented reassurance is not evidence.

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What we actually run for you.

Smart Sanction

Screen collaborating institutions, funders and named researchers against 450+ sanctions and PEP datasets.

Corporate and institutional ownership screening for the body behind an affiliation
PEP screening that reaches family members and close associates
Adverse media in graded categories, attributed to the article it came from
Every hit carries its source record; its first-seen date is when our index first carried it, not when it was designated
Your screening history records who searched for whom, with which tool and when, so the file shows when each check ran

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Entity Graph

See who controls a partner institution or a funding body.

Ownership and relationship mapping from registry and sanctions data
Controlling parties surfaced rather than taken from a partner's own description
The same evidence trail as name screening, in the same case file
Re-runnable when a programme is renewed

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Regulatory coverage

The rules that govern your business.

Named sources, not a badge wall. Each one is the instrument the obligation actually comes from.

Export Control Order 2008UK: Controls on exporting and transferring controlled technology out of the UK, including by electronic means, and on end-use.
Academic Technology Approval Scheme (ATAS)UK: Clearance international researchers and students need before studying or working in sensitive subjects in the UK.
Export Administration RegulationsUSA: The BIS Entity List and the deemed-export rule, which treats release of controlled technology to a foreign national as an export.
EU Dual-Use Regulation 2021/821EU: Controls on dual-use items and technology, including intangible transfers and the end-use catch-all provisions.
Financial sanctions regimesGlobal: Asset freeze and prohibition measures that attach to designated institutions as well as designated individuals.

GuideResearch Security ScreeningScreening research partners, funders and collaborators against sanctions.Read the guide