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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Jason Bielas

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Department: Na

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Disclosed Conflict of Interest with

Grail, Inc.

Disclosed Value

$80,000 - $99,999

Listed Reason

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

Dr. Bielas is an inventor of certain deep sequencing technology that has been licensed by the Institution to Grail. This project might identify the utility of specific mutational signatures for use in cancer screening. As a result, the value of the licensed technology could be impacted. This in turn could impact his ownership and intellectual property interests in Grail.

Listed Research Project

Ultrasensitive measure of human mutagenesis: Connecting the exposome to disease

NARRATIVE Successful completion of the proposed Aims would provide new insights into human genetic variation, and highlight the potential utility of monitoring mutation induction as a biomarker of mutagenic environmental exposure in humans. This would allow for the early identification of individuals at risk of developing cancer, and would provide a basis for direct medical intervention, lifestyle changes, and/or application of chemopreventive measures, which will ultimately save lives.

Filed on October 20, 2016.

Name	Institution	Type	Company	Disclosed Value
Jason Bielas	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center	Conflict of Interest	Grail, Inc	$80,000 - $99,999
Jason Bielas	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center	Conflict of Interest	Grail, Inc.	$80,000 - $99,999
Jason Bielas	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center	Conflict of Interest	Grail, Inc.	$80,000 - $99,999
Jason Bielas	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center	Conflict of Interest	Grail, Inc.	$80,000 - $99,999
Jason Bielas	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center	Conflict of Interest	Grail, Inc	Value cannot be readily determined
Jason Bielas	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center	Conflict of Interest	Grail, Inc.	Value cannot be readily determined
Jason Bielas	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center	Conflict of Interest	Grail, Inc.	Value cannot be readily determined
Jason Bielas	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center	Conflict of Interest	Grail, Inc.	Value cannot be readily determined
Jason Bielas	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center	Conflict of Interest	Grail, Inc.	Value cannot be readily determined
Jason Bielas	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center	Conflict of Interest	Grail, Inc	Value cannot be readily determined
Jason Bielas	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center	Conflict of Interest	Grail, Inc.	Value cannot be readily determined
Jason Bielas	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center	Conflict of Interest	Grail, Inc.	Value cannot be readily determined
Jason Bielas	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center	Conflict of Interest	Grail, Inc.	Value cannot be readily determined
Jason Bielas	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center	Conflict of Interest	Grail, Inc.	Value cannot be readily determined

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

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.

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