Dollars for Profs

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 Barbie

Massachusetts General Hospital, Department: None

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Disclosed Conflict of Interest with

Xsphera Biosciences

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

The research aims to develop novel strategies to overcome resistance to PD-1 blockade. The research will use organotypic tumor spheroids, cultured in a 3D microfluidic system, to develop strategies to overcome resistance to the PD-1 blockade. The Company is licensing the technology that is used in the research. The results of the research could affect the financial interest of the Company. Due to the nature of the financial interest it is determined that the interest could directly and significantly affect the design, conduct and reporting of the research.

Listed Research Project
Ex Vivo Profiling of Immunotherapy Combinations Using Organotypic Tumor Spheroids

PROJECT NARRATIVE While immune checkpoint inhibitors targeting the PD-1/PD-L1 axis have show unprecedented and durable clinical responses in melanoma and other cancers, resistance remains a challenge for the majority of patients and robust biomarkers to guide treatment are lacking. This project seeks to use murine- and patient- derived organotypic tumor spheroids (MDOTS/PDOTS) cultured in a 3-dimensional microfluidic system to develop novel strategies to overcome resistance to PD-1 blockade. Thus, the MDOTS/PDOTS platform represents a potential functional precision medicine platform for the development of novel combinations and ultimately personalized immunotherapy to tailor immunotherapy treatment to individual patients.

Filed on June 18, 2019.

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