Dollars for Profs

Dig Into University Researchers' Outside Income and Conflicts of Interest

Published Dec. 6, 2019

This database was last updated in December 2019 and should only be used as a historical snapshot. There may be new or amended records not reflected here.

Financial doc
Filing Type

Conflict of Interest

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Andrew Rollins

Cleveland Clinic Lerner Com Cwru, Department: Other Basic Sciences

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Disclosed Conflict of Interest with

Avedro, Inc.

Disclosed Value
Listed Reason
Intellectual property rights (e.g., royalties, patents, copyrights) not from the awardee Institution

CWRU’s COI Committee deemed this relationship as a conflict of interest due to an active option through Cleveland Clinic to Avedro to further develop technology invented by Dr. Rollins related to optical computerized tomography used in this project. This project aims to further develop and enhance said technology, thus Dr. Rollins stands to benefit monetarily should any advancements result that impact the potential/future commercialization of this technology.

Listed Research Project
Corneal Elastography and Patient-Specific Modeling for Simulation-based Therapy

This research program addresses core challenges in the development and integration of tools for simulation-based surgical planning. Major clinical targets of the proposal include keratoconus and post-LASIK ectasia, corneal diseases in which visual function and emerging treatments all depend explicitly on corneal structural properties. Projected outcomes of the work include development of noninvasive methods for biomechanical property mapping and integration of such measurements into patient-specific computational models that can be used to project disease risk and facilitate rational customization of treatment.

Filed on June 03, 2013.

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