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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Michael Brenner
Georgetown University, Department: Internal Medicine/medicine
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Synovex
Payment for services (e.g., consulting fees, honoraria, paid authorship)
The Co-Chairs of the Partners HealthCare Committee on Conflict of Interest (CCOI), by delegation, evaluated Dr. Brenner’s financial interest in Synovex, a private biotech company that has developed highly specific cadherin-11 antagonists for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and fibrotic diseases. The research under this R01 grant is aimed at determining the molecular mechanism by which cadherin-11 stimulates cell signaling and proliferation. The research will use cadherin-11 fusion proteins, RNAi and mAb. Synovex is developing an anti-cadherin-11 mAb biotherapeutic, which could be considered a “similar compound” to some of the stimulating or blocking reagents against cadherin-11 used in this R01 research. Upon review, the Co-Chairs determined that Synovex could be affected by the research in that new discoveries about cadherin-11 could affect the company’s research program. That is, this SFI was determined to be a related SFI. The Co-Chairs further determined that, given the magnitude and nature of the SFI, the interest creates an FCOI with this R01 grant; that is, the interest could directly and significantly affect the design, conduct, or reporting of the research.
Cadherin11 in cancer & rheumatoid arthritis: Common target, common therapies? (5)
Basal-like breast cancers and brain tumors of the glioblastoma type are among the poorest prognosis cancers with no effective treatments. This proposal links a molecular pathway elevated in these tumors to a similar pathway important in the inflammatory disease rheumatoid arthritis. We propose that drugs currently in use for arthritis as well as drugs repurposed to inhibit the common pathway will be useful as novel cancer therapies.
Filed on April 17, 2014.
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| Name | Institution | Type | Company | Disclosed Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Brenner | Georgetown University | Conflict of Interest | Synovex | Value cannot be readily determined |
| Michael Brenner | Brigham and Women's Hospital | Conflict of Interest | Adheron Therapeutics | Value cannot be readily determined |
| Michael Brenner | Brigham and Women's Hospital | Conflict of Interest | Adheron Therapeutics | $40,000 - $59,999 |
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