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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Wei Sun

Georgia Institute of Technology, Department: Engineering (All Types)

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Disclosed Conflict of Interest with

Dura Biotech

Disclosed Value
Listed Reason
Intellectual property rights (e.g., royalties, patents, copyrights) not from the awardee Institution

Dr. Sun founded and holds equity in Dura Biotech. The company is commercializing technology that it licensed from the University of Connecticut. Dr. Sun is studying related technologies at GA Tech. The GA Tech COI Committee determined that that Dr. Sun has a Financial Conflict of Interest (FCOI) on this project because he holds equity in a company that is commercializing technologies related to those being studied and Dura could benefit from the technologies being developed in the GA Tech work. Dr. Sun's financial interest in Dura could bias or appear to bias the design, conduct, or reporting of his research.

Listed Research Project
A novel computing framework to automatically process cardiac valve image data and predict treatment outcomes

PROJECT NARRATIVE Current clinical image modalities can be utilized to develop patient-specific computational models to pre-operatively plan transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedures. However, the computational modeling and simulation processes are time-consuming, which limits clinical translatability. Thus, the objective of this proposal is to develop algorithms using machine learning techniques to rapidly process and predict TAVR computational simulation outcomes directly from clinical image data.

Filed on November 06, 2018.

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Name Institution Type Company Disclosed Value
Wei Sun Georgia Institute of Technology Conflict of Interest Dura Biotech Value cannot be readily determined
Wei Sun Georgia Institute of Technology Conflict of Interest Dura Biotech Value cannot be readily determined
Wei Sun Georgia Institute of Technology Conflict of Interest Dura Biotech Value cannot be readily determined
Name Institution Type Company Disclosed Value
Wei Sun Georgia Institute of Technology Conflict of Interest Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Biomedical Engineering
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