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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Shalender Bhasin
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Department: Na
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Function Promoting Therapies, LLC (DBA Tesvgen, LLC)
Equity Interest - Non-publicly traded entity ( e.g., stock, stock option, or other ownership interest)
This grant supports an interdisciplinary research network to foster translational research in function promoting therapies (FPTs) – pharmacologic, physical, nutritional, technological and behavioral interventions that reduce the burden of disabling functional limitations in older adults. Dr. Bhasin is the co-founder of Function Promoting Therapies (FPT), LLC (DBA Tesvgen, LLC), a biopharmaceutical company whose aim is to develop innovative solutions that enhance precision and accuracy in clinical decision making and facilitate personalized therapeutic choices in reproductive health. FPT, LLC currently has two pending patents: an algorithm to calculate free testosterone concentrations and the application of testosterone plus DFMO as a selective prostate sparing anabolic therapy. This grant supports many research collaborations and the results of the various projects could be of interest to the company because the company and the research are both focused on developing function promoting therapies. Given the magnitude of Dr. Bhasin’s financial interest and the close connection between the company's interests and the research, the Partners Committee on Outside Activities (COA) review panel determined that the financial interest could directly and significantly affect the design, conduct, or reporting of the research.
Boston OAIC: A Translational Approach to Function Promoting Therapies
Narrative The Boston Older Americans Independence Center (Boston OAIC) has transcended the departmental, institutional, and disciplinary boundaries to forge an interdisciplinary research network to foster translational research in function promoting therapies (FPTs) ? pharmacologic, physical, nutritional, technological and behavioral interventions that reduce the burden of disabling functional limitations in older adults. The Boston OAIC will integrate 19 NIH-funded studies, 3 Research Education Core projects, 3 pilot projects, and 3 developmental projects into an interdisciplinary program that is supported by a Leadership and Administrative Core, a Research Education Core (REC), a Pilot and Exploratory Studies Core (PESC), and 3 resource cores (Function Assessment Core, Preclinical Discovery Core, Biostatistical and Data Analysis Core). Unique strengths of OAIC include its focus on FPTs, emphasis on translation and commercialization, access to a large pool of talented young investigators, its extension across the entire spectrum of translational research, the outstanding productivity of its members, strong institutional support, and its success in developing intellectual property and companies, and supporting some of the most important randomized trials of FPTs.
Filed on July 13, 2016.
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