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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Donald Kufe

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department: Chemistry

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Disclosed Conflict of Interest with

Genus Oncology

Disclosed Value
Listed Reason
Payment for services (e.g., consulting fees, honoraria, paid authorship)

Genus Oncology is private clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and developing first-in-class agents against the MUC1-C oncoprotein for the treatment of patients with refractory cancers. This R01 grant proposes to utilize a novel synthetic strategy to make safe nanoparticle (NP)-drug conjugates and enable magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)- guided therapeutic selection. The project’s objectives are to construct NPs from combinations of drugs that are synergistic for ovarian cancer, and to determine if the therapy is working by using responsive organic MRI tags built into the NPs. NP delivery to solid tumor malignancies will be augmented using a novel humanized antibody that binds MUC1-C, MAb 3D1. This antibody is licensed to Genus Oncology.

The DFCI Conflict of Interest Committee concluded that the results of this research could be of scientific and financial interest to genus Oncology and, accordingly, represented a financial conflict of interest under the regulations.

Listed Research Project
Organic nanoparticles for dual MRI-guided therapeutic selection and ovarian cancer drug delivery

This proposal describes a new way to make safe nanoparticles that can carry multiple drugs and enable MRI- guided therapeutic selection. Our key objectives are to construct these nanoparticles from combinations of drugs that are synergistic for ovarian cancer, and to determine if the therapy is working by using responsive organic MRI imaging tags built into the nanoparticles. Our hypothesis is that these new nanoparticles will provide a clinically translatable theranostics platform for ovarian cancer imaging and therapy.

Filed on December 27, 2017.

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Name Institution Type Company Disclosed Value
Donald Kufe Dana Farber Cancer Inst Conflict of Interest Genus Oncology $150,000 - $199,999
Donald Kufe Dana Farber Cancer Inst Conflict of Interest Genus Oncology $150,000 - $199,999
Donald Kufe Dana Farber Cancer Inst Conflict of Interest Genus Oncology $150,000 - $199,999
Donald Kufe Dana Farber Cancer Inst Conflict of Interest Genus Oncology Value cannot be readily determined
Donald Kufe Massachusetts Institute of Technology Conflict of Interest Genus Oncology Value cannot be readily determined
Donald Kufe Dana Farber Cancer Inst Conflict of Interest Genus Oncology $0 - $4,999
Donald Kufe Massachusetts Institute of Technology Conflict of Interest Genus Oncology Value cannot be readily determined
Donald Kufe Dana Farber Cancer Inst Conflict of Interest Genus Oncology $100,000 - $149,999
Donald Kufe Dana Farber Cancer Inst Conflict of Interest Genus Oncology Value cannot be readily determined
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