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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Benjamin Larimer
Massachusetts General Hospital, Department: Na
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CytoSite BioPharma, Inc.
Payment for services (e.g., consulting fees, honoraria, paid authorship)
Dr. Benjamin M. Larimer is a co-founder of the private start-up company CytoSite BioPharma, Inc. He holds equity in the company and will receive income from the company for consulting services. CytoSite BioPharma, Inc. seeks to predict and monitor response to immuno-oncology therapy, as well other indications in which immune cell activity modulates or directly reflects disease activity, and is developing a platform technology centered on imaging and utilizing granzyme B enzyme activity. The research project involves the use of granzyme B PET imaging to effectively measure response to immunotherapy for the treatment of cancer. The results of this study could therefore be of interest to the company.
Quantitative PET Imaging for Oncologic Immunotherapy Response Prediction
Project Narrative Immune checkpoint inhibitors activate the immune system to recognize and attack cancer cells, and have markedly advanced treatment options for patients with a broad variety of cancers. However, standard imaging methods are often not useful in response assessment of immune modulators due to a lack of change in tumor size or metabolic activity with an immune cell infiltrate. To address this unmet clinical and research need, a novel PET imaging approach will be utilized to measure T cell activation within a tumor as a new imaging paradigm for tumoral response evaluation to immune modulators.
Filed on October 02, 2017.
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Benjamin Larimer filed other conflict of interest disclosures with the NIH:
| Name | Institution | Type | Company | Disclosed Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benjamin M. Larimer | University of Alabama at Birmingham | Conflict of Interest | Cytosite Biopharma Inc. | >$600,000 |
| Benjamin M. Larimer | University of Alabama at Birmingham | Conflict of Interest | Cytosite Biopharma Inc. | $60,000 - $79,999 |
| Benjamin Larimer | Massachusetts General Hospital | Conflict of Interest | CytoSite BioPharma, Inc. | Value cannot be readily determined |
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