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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Niren Murthy

Emory University, Department: Internal Medicine/medicine

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Disclosed Conflict of Interest with

Microbial Medical

Disclosed Value
Listed Reason
Equity Interest - Non-publicly traded entity ( e.g., stock, stock option, or other ownership interest)

Proposal uses maltodextrin transporter as a way of labeling bacteria in blood, which could be of business interest to Microbial Medical if successful. Microbial Medical is currently focused on imaging bacterial infections in vivo with maltodextrins. Experiments in the proposal are related to the claims of the patents that Microbial Medical has licensed so value of the IP could be enhanced.

Listed Research Project
18F Conjugated Maltodextrins for the Detection of Medical Device Infections

Medical device infections pose a major health issue resulting in significant cost, mortality and morbidity. Currently, out techniques available for the detection of infected medical devices are very limited. In this proposal, we will develop and test a novel family of imaging probes to detect medical device infections in humans.

Filed on May 18, 2017.

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Name Institution Type Company Disclosed Value
Niren Murthy University of California Berkeley Conflict of Interest Microbial Medical Value cannot be readily determined
Niren Murthy University of California Berkeley Conflict of Interest GenEdit Value cannot be readily determined
Name Institution Type Company Disclosed Value
Niren Murthy University of California Berkeley Financial Disclosure Microbial Medical
Niren Murthy University of California Berkeley Financial Disclosure Microbial Medical
Niren Murthy University of California Berkeley Financial Disclosure GenEdit
Niren Murthy University of California Berkeley Financial Disclosure Microbial Medical, Inc.
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