Dollars for Profs

Dig Into University Researchers' Outside Income and Conflicts of Interest

Published Dec. 6, 2019

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Filing Type

Conflict of Interest

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James Olson

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Department: Na

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Disclosed Conflict of Interest with

Blaze Biosciences

Disclosed Value

$40,000 - $59,999

Listed Reason

Payment for services (e.g., consulting fees, honoraria, paid authorship)

Blaze has an option to license the molecule that will be studied in this grant. The value of Dr. Olson’s financial interests in Blaze could therefore be impacted depending on the outcome of this research.

Listed Research Project

Engineering knotted peptide therapeutics for pediatric brain tumor patients

Brain tumors cause more deaths in children than any other form of cancer. Building on our success in advancing Tumor Paint to clinical trials to help surgeons remove pediatric brain cancers, we now propose to understand the mechanism by which Tumor Paint crosses into the brain so that we can engineer therapeutic candidates for children with brain tumors. Toward maximizing benefit to childhood brain cancer survivors, we propose to use information about Tumor Paint to help engineer a drug candidate that would prevent brain damage caused by radiation therapy in these children.

Filed on January 18, 2018.

Name	Institution	Type	Company	Disclosed Value
James Olson	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center	Conflict of Interest	Presage Biosciences	$100,000 - $149,999
James Olson	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center	Conflict of Interest	Presage Biosciences	$80,000 - $99,999
James Olson	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center	Conflict of Interest	Presage Biosciences	$80,000 - $99,999
James Olson	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center	Conflict of Interest	Presage Biosciences	$40,000 - $59,999
James Olson	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center	Conflict of Interest	Blaze Biosciences	$40,000 - $59,999
James Olson	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center	Conflict of Interest	Presage Biosciences	Value cannot be readily determined
James Olson	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center	Conflict of Interest	Presage Biosciences	Value cannot be readily determined
James Olson	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center	Conflict of Interest	Presage Biosciences	Value cannot be readily determined
James Olson	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center	Conflict of Interest	Presage Biosciences	Value cannot be readily determined
James Olson	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center	Conflict of Interest	Presage Biosciences	Value cannot be readily determined
James Olson	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center	Conflict of Interest	Presage Biosciences	Value cannot be readily determined
James Olson	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center	Conflict of Interest	Presage Biosciences	Value cannot be readily determined
James Olson	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center	Conflict of Interest	Presage Biosciences	Value cannot be readily determined
James Olson	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center	Conflict of Interest	Presage Biosciences	Value cannot be readily determined
James Olson	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center	Conflict of Interest	Presage Biosciences	Value cannot be readily determined
James Olson	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center	Conflict of Interest	Presage Biosciences	Value cannot be readily determined
James Olson	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center	Conflict of Interest	Blaze Biosciences	Value cannot be readily determined
James Olson	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center	Conflict of Interest	Blaze Biosciences	Value cannot be readily determined
James Olson	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center	Conflict of Interest	Blaze Biosciences	Value cannot be readily determined
James Olson	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center	Conflict of Interest	Blaze Biosciences	Value cannot be readily determined
James Olson	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center	Conflict of Interest	Presage Biosciences	Value cannot be readily determined

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Sources: National Institutes of Health, public records requests filed at multiple public state universities

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