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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Aravind Asokan
Duke University, Department: Surgery
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TorqueBio
Equity Interest - Non-publicly traded entity ( e.g., stock, stock option, or other ownership interest)
Dr. Asokan has equity in TorqueBio which has licensed IP used in this project. He is responsible for the oversight of the project, experimental design and data analysis.
CircRNAs and CNS Gene Transfer
Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are an emerging class of RNA molecules with potential for tissue-specific, gene regulation and expression. Understanding and manipulating the expression profiles of these novel RNA constructs in normal and diseased mammalian brains could provide a path towards designing therapeutics with improved safety and efficacy for diseases such as Frontotemporal Dementia and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.
Filed on October 02, 2018.
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Aravind Asokan filed other conflict of interest disclosures with the NIH:
| Name | Institution | Type | Company | Disclosed Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aravind Asokan | Univ of North Carolina Chapel Hill | Conflict of Interest | AskBio | $0 - $4,999 |
| Aravind Asokan | Univ of North Carolina Chapel Hill | Conflict of Interest | Stride Therapeutics | $0 - $4,999 |
| Aravind Asokan | Univ of North Carolina Chapel Hill | Conflict of Interest | Stride Therapeutics | Value cannot be readily determined |
| Ar Asokan | Duke University | Conflict of Interest | StrideBio, Inc. | Value cannot be readily determined |
| Aravind Asokan | Duke University | Conflict of Interest | StrideBio, Inc. | Value cannot be readily determined |
Notes: When a more specific filing date is not available for an individual financial disclosure or conflict of interest form, we use the year the form was filed. If the year was not disclosed, we report the range of years covered by our public records requests. In a few cases, a start date was provided instead of a filing date. In those cases, we use the start date instead.
Fewer than 10% of records from the University of Florida and fewer than 1% of records from the University of Texas system were removed because they did not contain enough information.
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