Dollars for Profs

Dig Into University Researchers' Outside Income and Conflicts of Interest

Published Dec. 6, 2019

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Filing Type

Conflict of Interest

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Robert Sebra

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Department: Psychiatry

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Disclosed Conflict of Interest with

Sema4

Disclosed Value
Listed Reason
Salary not from the awardee Institution

Dr. Robert Sebra (a Co-Investigator in this study) is the Director of Technology Development at the Icahn Institute of Genomics and Multiscale Biology and the VP of Technology Development for Sema4 (a Mount Sinai spin-off company, dedicated to improving patients' wellness through aggregating, analyzing, and deriving personalized insights from health information and data). Sema4 is currently wholly owned by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. As VP of Technology Development for Sema4, Dr. Sebra receives financial compensation and has option grants in this privately held company.

Sema4 is involved in other research projects relating to schizophrenia, however, they have no involvement in the current study.

Listed Research Project
Molecular Profiling of Schizophrenia

Narrative In the United States, over a million people have schizophrenia with considerable morbidity, mortality, and personal and societal cost. We propose to use advanced and novel technologies to generate a broad range of genomic, epi-(Greek for `over', `above') genetic, and proteomic data collected from hundreds of postmortem brain samples from controls and from subjects who were diagnosed with schizophrenia. A particular strength of this proposal is that we will do much of this work in specific cell types that are often implicated in the disease. These data will provide a much needed resource to explore the genetic risk architecture and neurobiology of the disorder.

Filed on April 18, 2019.

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Name Institution Type Company Disclosed Value
Robert Sebra Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Conflict of Interest Sema4 Value cannot be readily determined
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