Dollars for Profs
Dig Into University Researchers' Outside Income and Conflicts of Interest
Published Dec. 6, 2019
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Conflict of Interest
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Yi Zhang
Boston Children's Hospital, Department: Na
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NewClone Biotechnology, Inc.
Payment for services (e.g., consulting fees, honoraria, paid authorship)
On May 28th, Dr. Zhang helped found a company, NewClone Biotechnology, Inc. (“Company”), which was formed to generate clone big animals using the information learned from study in mice. Dr. Zhang’s research in the subject grant involves understanding the basic molecular mechanism of reprogramming through somatic cell nuclear transfer.
Although Dr. Zhang’s research is distinct from the Company’s work in that the company is mainly interested in generating cloned big animals (while the work in the Zhang lab is on the basic mechanisms in mice), it does have the potential to indirectly benefit Company in case that the same mechanism is conserved between mice and other big animals.
Understanding mechanism and improving efficiency of somatic cell nuclear transfer
Understanding mechanism and improving efficiency of somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) Project Narrative Somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) is the only reprogramming method to generate totipotent cells. However, very little is known about how SCNT is achieved. Building on two state-of-art techniques that we recently developed, we propose to dissect the mechanism of SCNT and improve its reprogramming efficiency.
Filed on March 22, 2019.
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| Name | Institution | Type | Company | Disclosed Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yi Zhang | Boston Children's Hospital | Conflict of Interest | NewClone Biotechnology, Inc. | Value cannot be readily determined |
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