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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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David Sinclair

Harvard Medical School, Department: Genetics

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Disclosed Conflict of Interest with

GlaxoSmithKline

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

GSK is developing related SIRT1 activating compounds for diseases of aging. As such, understanding how SIRT1 is activated could be important to GSK.

Listed Research Project
Elucidating mechanisms of SIRT1 activation

Project Narrative The sirtuins are some of the most mechanistically complicated enzymes known, playing important roles in the body's physiological responses to energy intake and exercise. But whether they can be directly activated by small molecules is hotly debated. This study will make use of a novel SIRT1 mutant we have discovered (hE230K/mE222K), which inhibits SIRT1 activation by small molecules. By assessing the effect of this mutation on SIRT1 structure and the effects of small molecule activators in primary cells and mice carrying this mutation, these studies will elucidate fundamental mechanisms of allosteric enzyme activation and resolve the debate as to whether sirtuins can be targeted directly for the treatment of type 2 diabetes and other metabolic diseases.

Filed on August 03, 2016.

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Name Institution Type Company Disclosed Value
David Sinclair Harvard Medical School Conflict of Interest Cohbar, Inc. >$600,000
David Sinclair Harvard Medical School Conflict of Interest OvaScience >$600,000
David Sinclair Harvard Medical School Conflict of Interest Life Biosciences $250,000 - $299,999
David Sinclair Harvard Medical School Conflict of Interest Ovscience $40,000 - $59,999
David Sinclair Harvard Medical School Conflict of Interest GlaxoSmithKline $40,000 - $59,999
David Sinclair Harvard Medical School Conflict of Interest Ovscience $40,000 - $59,999
David Sinclair Harvard Medical School Conflict of Interest Senolytic Therapeutics $40,000 - $59,999
David Sinclair Harvard Medical School Conflict of Interest OvaScience $10,000 - $19,999
David Sinclair Harvard Medical School Conflict of Interest OvaScience $5,000 - $9,999
David Sinclair Harvard Medical School Conflict of Interest Life Biosciences (parent company) and Jumpstart Fertility (wholly owned subsidiary operated by Life) $0 - $4,999
David Sinclair Harvard Medical School Conflict of Interest EdenRoc Sciences (parent company of Metro International Biotech and Liberty Biosecurity) Value cannot be readily determined
David Sinclair Harvard Medical School Conflict of Interest Iduna Therapeutics Value cannot be readily determined
David Sinclair Harvard Medical School Conflict of Interest Jupiter Orphan Therapeutics Value cannot be readily determined
David Sinclair Harvard Medical School Conflict of Interest Liberty Biosecurity (wholly owned and operated subsidiary of EdenRoc Sciences) and EdenRoc Sciences Value cannot be readily determined
David Sinclair Harvard Medical School Conflict of Interest Metrobiotech East, LLC Value cannot be readily determined
David Sinclair Harvard Medical School Conflict of Interest EdenRoc Science Value cannot be readily determined
David Sinclair Harvard Medical School Conflict of Interest Life Biosciences (parent company) and Jumpstart Fertility (wholly owned subsidiary operated by Life) Value cannot be readily determined
David Sinclair Harvard Medical School Conflict of Interest Life Biosciences Value cannot be readily determined
David Sinclair Harvard Medical School Conflict of Interest Spotlight Biosciences Inc. Value cannot be readily determined
David Sinclair Harvard Medical School Conflict of Interest Jumpstart Fertility (a subsidiary of Life Biosciences) Value cannot be readily determined
David Sinclair Harvard Medical School Conflict of Interest Liberty Biosecurity (wholly owned and operated subsidiary of EdenRoc Sciences) and EdenRoc Sciences Value cannot be readily determined
David Sinclair Harvard Medical School Conflict of Interest Senolytic Therapeutics Value cannot be readily determined
David Sinclair Harvard Medical School Conflict of Interest MetroBiotech Midatlantic, LLC Value cannot be readily determined
David Sinclair Harvard Medical School Conflict of Interest Life Biosciences (parent company) and Jupiter Orphan (wholly owned subsidiary operated by Life) 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.

Fewer than 10% of records from the University of Florida and fewer than 1% of records from the University of Texas system were removed because they did not contain enough information.

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