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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Korkut Uygun
Massachusetts General Hospital, Department: Na
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Organ Solutions, LLC
Equity Interest - Non-publicly traded entity ( e.g., stock, stock option, or other ownership interest)
Dr. Uygun is a co-founder of Organ Solutions, LLC. The company is developing perfusion systems and services for organ preservation with the goal of improving organ viability and maximizing the time to transplant. This research grant will investigate the boundaries of organ injury that allows recovery by ex vivo donor liver perfusion (EVLP) and will delineate the ideal parameters of liver perfusion. New IP resulting from this grant may be of interest to Organ Solutions, LLC. The Partners Healthcare Committee on Outside Activities review panel evaluated the financial interest in connection with this research and determined that, based on the close connection between the company's interests and the research, the financial interest could directly and significantly affect the design, conduct, or reporting of the research.
Expanding the Liver Transplant Organ Pool through Ex Vivo Liver Perfusion
PROJECT NARRATIVE There is a crisis in donor organ availability: overall there are 123,000 patients on the UNOS organ waiting list, with the number increasing by about 5% annually. Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis causes about 30,000 deaths annually in the US, over 4,000 of which are attributable to lack of a transplantable liver graft. This translational proposal aims to improve public health by developing technologies for reengineering currently discarded donor livers and to make them transplantable with success.
Filed on July 25, 2016.
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Korkut Uygun filed other conflict of interest disclosures with the NIH:
| Name | Institution | Type | Company | Disclosed Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mustafa Korkut Uygun | Massachusetts General Hospital | Conflict of Interest | Organ Solutions, LLC | Value cannot be readily determined |
| Korkut Uygun | Massachusetts General Hospital | Conflict of Interest | Organ Solutions, LLC | Value cannot be readily determined |
| Korkut Mustafa Uygun | Massachusetts General Hospital | Conflict of Interest | Organ Solutions, LLC | Value cannot be readily determined |
| Mustafa Korkut Uygun | Massachusetts General Hospital | Conflict of Interest | Organ Solutions, LLC | Value cannot be readily determined |
| Mustafa Korkut Uygun | Massachusetts General Hospital | Conflict of Interest | Organ Solutions, LLC | 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.
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