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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Leigh Hochberg
Massachusetts General Hospital, Department: Na
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Synchron Med, Inc.
Equity Interest - Non-publicly traded entity ( e.g., stock, stock option, or other ownership interest)
Dr. Hochberg serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of Synchron Med, Inc. and has equity in the privately held company. Synchron Med, Inc. is developing a minimally invasive implantable brain device that could help paralyzed patients achieve direct brain control of assisted technologies. The research project involves the investigation of the BrainGate neural interface system, which uses a brain-implantable sensor to detect neural signals that are then decoded to provide control signals for assistive technologies for paralysis. If both the grant-funded research and Synchron's activities are separately successful in developing FDA-cleared/approved medical devices, physicians and patients in the future may be in the position of selecting one or the other technology. The company could therefore have an interest in the results of this research.
High-Bandwidth Wireless Interfaces for Continuous Human Intracortical Recording
Implanted brain-computer interfaces have the potential to restore communication and independence to people with paralysis. This project will complete the regulatory testing and conduct the early clinical testing of a new, fully implanted neural interface system that can record from up to 100 brain cells (neurons) and transmit that neural activity to a nearby receiver. An important goal of the system is to allow people with neurologic injury to control cursors on a computer screen simply by thinking about the movement of their own hand.
Filed on October 03, 2017.
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Leigh Hochberg filed other conflict of interest disclosures with the NIH:
| Name | Institution | Type | Company | Disclosed Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leigh Hochberg | Massachusetts General Hospital | Conflict of Interest | Synchron Med, Inc. | Value cannot be readily determined |
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