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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George Church
Harvard Medical School, Department: Genetics
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ReadCoor, Inc.
Equity Interest - Non-publicly traded entity ( e.g., stock, stock option, or other ownership interest)
Readcoor was recently formed to commercialize FISSEQ, a new generation sequencing platform that enables researchers to perform high throughput RNA-Seq while preserving sample morphology and simultaneously providing cellular location and spatial image data. The grant is using FISSEQ technology to learn more about psychological disorders. Specifically, Dr. Church’s lab will advance FISSEQ technology for application to the human and mouse brain as well as evaluate FISSEQ sequence data from identified neuronal populations in the brains of patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder and mouse models. As such, there is a potential for the financial interest in the company to affect the design, conduct, or reporting of the research.
Exploring a Novel Paradigm of Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder
Narrative We propose a new paradigm for understanding schizophrenia and bipolar disorder based on dysregulation of the stress response network of the brain by the transcriptional regulator REST. To explore this idea, we will capitalize on genetically engineered mouse models and induced progenitor stem cell lines, and will advance new technology to sequence the transcriptome in single brain cells in situ, enabling the convergence of multiple data streams at single cell resolution. This new technology may lead to the discovery of novel disease pathways and therapeutic targets for psychiatric disorders.
Filed on October 25, 2016.
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George Church filed other conflict of interest disclosures with the NIH:
| Name | Institution | Type | Company | Disclosed Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| George Church | Harvard Medical School | Conflict of Interest | Editas Medicine | $20,000 - $39,999 |
| George Church | Harvard Medical School | Conflict of Interest | GC Therapeutics | $0 - $4,999 |
| George Church | Harvard Medical School | Conflict of Interest | GC Therapeutics | Value cannot be readily determined |
| George Church | Harvard University | Conflict of Interest | ReadCoor, Inc. | Value cannot be readily determined |
| George Church | Harvard Medical School | Conflict of Interest | Editas Medicine | Value cannot be readily determined |
| George Church | Harvard Medical School | Conflict of Interest | ReadCoor, Inc. | Value cannot be readily determined |
| George Church | Harvard Medical School | Conflict of Interest | Twist Bioscience | Value cannot be readily determined |
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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