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Dig Into University Researchers' Outside Income and Conflicts of Interest

Published Dec. 6, 2019

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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

Life Biosciences

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

This study proposes an integrated multidisciplinary approach to find, validate, and characterize an estimated 4000-5000 new peptide coding genes using a new technology platform which will provide a more complete roodmap for biology and medicine. Life Biosciences is focused on creating companies focused on extending human life span. Life Biosciences is the parent company of Spotlight. Dr. Sinclair owns equity in both Life Biosciences and Spotlight. His financial interests in both companies are being managed by the institution.

Listed Research Project
Uncovering the Human Secretome

PROJECT NARRATIVE There has been a rapid expansion in the use of peptide hormones as drugs over the last decade, yet new research indicates that more than 90% of all hormones in the body (encoded by an additional 5% of the human genome) remain to be discovered. As a result, terabytes of data are discarded each week and innumerable opportunities for biological discovery are missed because, according to our findings, the majority of genes below ~300 base pairs are missing from the annotated human genome. We propose an integrated, multi- disciplinary approach to find, validate and characterize an estimated 4000-5000 new peptide-coding genes using a pioneering technology platform that combines breakthroughs in math, custom-built computer hardware and software, and wet-lab approaches, providing a far more complete roadmap for biology and medicine in the 21st century.

Filed on January 30, 2018.

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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 Senolytic Therapeutics $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 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 GlaxoSmithKline $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 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 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
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
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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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