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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Chao-Ting Wu

Harvard Medical School, Department: Genetics

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Disclosed Conflict of Interest with

Twist Bioscience

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

This research project includes in situ genome profiling through Oligopaints, FISSEQ, ExSeq and related methods. Dr. Wu's spouse holds private equity in Twist Biosciences. Twist Bioscience’s products include Oligo pools, high diversity collections of oligonucleotides, which can be utilized in many applications, including generation of CRISPR guide RNA (sgRNA) libraries and high-throughput reporter assays.

Listed Research Project
Center for Genomically Engineered Organs

The Center for Genomically Engineered Organs will develop methods for making tissues in laboratories that closely match normal or diseased tissues in humans and animals. Such model tissues will accelerate biomedical research by providing easy ways to conduct preliminary tests of theories of normal tissue function, or that explore the effects of diseases and treatments, before moving to potentially invasive experiments or costly clinical trials. The Center will use cutting edge methods that allow vast number of individual molecules of DNA, RNA, and protein to be visualized in the individual cells of tissues, enable stem cells to be genetically edited and reprogrammed into other cell types, and that permit cells of different types to be assembled into complex vascularized tissues.

Filed on August 17, 2018.

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Name Institution Type Company Disclosed Value
Chao-Ting Wu Harvard Medical School Conflict of Interest ReadCoor, Inc. Value cannot be readily determined
Chao-Ting Wu Harvard Medical School Conflict of Interest Twist Bioscience Value cannot be readily determined
Chao-Ting Wu Harvard Medical School Conflict of Interest GC Therapeutics Value cannot be readily determined
Chao-Ting Wu Harvard Medical School Conflict of Interest ReadCoor Value cannot be readily determined
Chao-Ting Wu Harvard Medical School Conflict of Interest GC Therapeutics $0 - $4,999
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