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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Brian Volkman
Medical College of Wisconsin, Department: Biochemistry
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Protein Foundry, LLC
Equity Interest - Non-publicly traded entity ( e.g., stock, stock option, or other ownership interest)
See uploaded document in Section 3.
Structural Basis for Chemokine Function
Five-year survival rates for pancreatic cancer are below 15%, and only 1 in 6 patients are surgical candidates. CXCL12 is a pro-metastatic protein, called a chemokine that uses the CXCR4 receptor to draw pancreatic cancer cells away from the primary tumor. Chemokines and their cell- surface receptors form a network of signaling proteins that orchestrates the homing and migration of white blood cells, stem cells and metastatic cancer cells to specific organs and tissues throughout the human body. To develop new therapeutic molecules that block cancer progression, enhance wound healing, or prevent chronic inflammation, the molecular details of chemokine specificity and receptor signaling must be understood. In the last funding period, we discovered that linking two CXCL12 molecules together (to create a CXCL12 'locked dimer') converts this chemokine into a potent inhibitor of metastasis. In this project, we propose to define the molecular basis for chemokine selectivity and translate our patented inhibitor molecule into a new therapeutic strategy for pancreatic cancer.
Filed on November 02, 2016.
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Brian Volkman filed other conflict of interest disclosures with the NIH:
| Name | Institution | Type | Company | Disclosed Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brian Volkman | Medical College of Wisconsin | Conflict of Interest | Protein Foundry, LLC | $10,000 - $19,999 |
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