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Dig Into University Researchers' Outside Income and Conflicts of Interest

Published Dec. 6, 2019

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Financial doc
Filing Type

Conflict of Interest

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Bert O'Malley

Baylor College of Medicine, Department: Pharmacology

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Disclosed Conflict of Interest with

Coactigon, Inc.

Disclosed Value
Listed Reason
Salary not from the awardee Institution

The RCOIC reviewed your SFI with Coactigon, Inc., the aims and scope of this funded research, and your role of conducting and managing the research. Coactigon is a BCM start-up company that develops several different SRC3 chemical probes with slight differences. These probes are the only products currently under development.

This project is to discover and research small compounds that are designed to help fight cancers (beginning with breast cancer). The molecules inhibit transcription of the RNA in cells. The company was formed to develop and test these compounds. Research supported by this National Institutes of Health grant involves the development of SRC-3 small molecule inhibitors that are also being developed by Coactigon, Inc. The purposes of the funded research and the purpose of the company have overlap in this area of research being designed, developed, and tested. Since the funded research is to design, develop, and test the same molecules for which the company was founded, and these molecules are used in the treatment of breast cancer, the committee determined that the investigator’s SFI could directly and/or significantly affect the design, conduct, or reporting of the research, and was therefore a FCOI.

Listed Research Project
Drugging the Undruggable Coactivators using Small Molecule Inhibitors

Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed and second most lethal cancer among women in the United States. Drug resistance and tumor metastasis are the major challenges to current breast cancer treatment. In this proposal, we will develop a targeted therapy to reverse drug resistance and reduce metastasis in breast cancer.

Filed on May 10, 2019.

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Name Institution Type Company Disclosed Value
Bert O'Malley Baylor College of Medicine Conflict of Interest Coactigon, Inc. Value cannot be readily determined
Bert O'Malley Baylor College of Medicine Conflict of Interest Coactigon, Inc. Value cannot be readily determined
Bert O'Malley Baylor College of Medicine Conflict of Interest Coactigon, Inc. $0 - $4,999
Bert O'Malley Baylor College of Medicine Conflict of Interest Coactigon, Inc. $0 - $4,999
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