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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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Richard Young

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department: Miscellaneous

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Disclosed Conflict of Interest with

Syros Pharmaceuticals

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

Dr. Young is a founder, Director and consultant to Syros, a company founded partly on the basis of technology developed in the Young laboratory and licensed to the company. The interests of the company overlap

with the research subject matter of the NIH funded award referenced above. A management plan is required to assure that Dr. Young's relationship with Syros will not influence the integrity of the research, and because the results of the research may fall under the rights granted in the License Agreement to the company.

Listed Research Project
Cancer Center Support (Core) Grant

Overall Component: Project Narrative The Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT is a highly inter-disciplinary Cancer Center that brings together the great strengths at MIT in cancer science and cancer-oriented engineering to address long- standing problems in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. The Koch Institute is focused on basic discovery and technology development; however, advancing projects toward the clinic and to the benefit of patients as rapidly as possible is a high priority. This occurs through extensive interactions with clinical centers as well as industry partners.

Filed on December 30, 2015.

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Name Institution Type Company Disclosed Value
Richard Young Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Res Conflict of Interest Syros Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $100,000 - $149,999
Richard Young Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Res Conflict of Interest Syros Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $100,000 - $149,999
Richard Young Massachusetts Institute of Technology Conflict of Interest Syros Pharmaceuticals Value cannot be readily determined
Richard Young Dana Farber Cancer Inst Conflict of Interest Syros Pharmaceuticals >$600,000
Richard Young Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Res Conflict of Interest Omega Therapeutics $20,000 - $39,999
Richard Young Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Res Conflict of Interest Syros Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $100,000 - $149,999
Richard Young Dana Farber Cancer Inst Conflict of Interest Syros Pharmaceuticals >$600,000
Richard Young Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Res Conflict of Interest Syros Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Value cannot be readily determined
Richard Young Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Res Conflict of Interest Marauder Therapeutics, Inc. $100,000 - $149,999
Richard Young Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Res Conflict of Interest Syros Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Value cannot be readily determined
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Sources: National Institutes of Health, public records requests filed at multiple public state universities

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.

Fewer than 10% of records from the University of Florida and fewer than 1% of records from the University of Texas system were removed because they did not contain enough information.

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