Dollars for Profs

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.

Filing Type

Conflict of Interest

Institutions must file significant disclosures to the National Institutes of Health if they determine financial relationships could affect the design, conduct or reporting of the NIH-funded research. The NIH provided us with their entire financial conflict of interest database, with filings from 2012 through 2019.

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Eric A. Johnson

Medical College of Wisconsin, Department: Microbiology/immun/virology

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Disclosed Conflict of Interest with

CellSNAP LLC

Disclosed Value

$5,000 - $9,999

Listed Reason

Equity Interest - Non-publicly traded entity ( e.g., stock, stock option, or other ownership interest)

This outside activity has a nexus with the investigator's research activities because the outside activity arises from and relies upon the academic expertise that qualifies this individual to participate in this PHS funded research activity. The combination of the investigator's significant financial interest in the outside activity and the nexus between the investigator's research corresponds to the definition of a FCOI and so requires management.

Listed Research Project

Vaccines Against Botulism

The botulinum neurotoxins (BoNT) are the most toxic proteins known for humans and a potential bioterrorism weapon. Currently, there is no licensed vaccine against botulism. A BoNT vaccine would protect at-risk humans from exposure, including first responders, the military, and researchers. The proposed studies will produce the next generation vaccine against foodborne and inhalation botulism to protect against native BoNT as well as engineered BoNT variants.

Filed on October 18, 2016.

Name	Institution	Type	Company	Disclosed Value
Eric A. Johnson	University of Wisconsin Madison	Conflict of Interest	CellSNAP LLC	$300,000 - $349,999
Eric Johnson	University of Wisconsin Madison	Conflict of Interest	CellSNAP LLC	$300,000 - $349,999
Eric Johnson	University of Wisconsin Madison	Conflict of Interest	Botulinum Toxin Research Associates	$60,000 - $79,999
Eric A. Johnson	Medical College of Wisconsin	Conflict of Interest	CellSNAP LLC	$60,000 - $79,999
Eric Johnson	University of Wisconsin Madison	Conflict of Interest	CellSNAP LLC	$60,000 - $79,999
Eric Johnson	University of Wisconsin Madison	Conflict of Interest	CellSNAP LLC	$60,000 - $79,999
Eric A. Johnson	Medical College of Wisconsin	Conflict of Interest	Botulinum Toxin Research Associates	$5,000 - $9,999
Eric A. Johnson	Medical College of Wisconsin	Conflict of Interest	Botulinum Toxin Research Associates	$5,000 - $9,999
Eric A. Johnson	Medical College of Wisconsin	Conflict of Interest	CellSNAP LLC	$5,000 - $9,999
Eric Johnson	University of Wisconsin Madison	Conflict of Interest	CellSNAP LLC	$5,000 - $9,999
Eric A. Johnson	University of Wisconsin Madison	Conflict of Interest	Botulinum Toxin Research Assoc	$5,000 - $9,999
Eric A. Johnson	University of Wisconsin Madison	Conflict of Interest	CellSNAP LLC	$5,000 - $9,999
Eric Johnson	University of Wisconsin Madison	Conflict of Interest	CellSNAP LLC	$5,000 - $9,999
Eric Johnson	University of Wisconsin Madison	Conflict of Interest	Botulinum Toxin Research Assoc	$5,000 - $9,999
Eric Johnson	University of Wisconsin Madison	Conflict of Interest	CellSNAP LLC	$5,000 - $9,999
Eric A. Johnson	University of Wisconsin Madison	Conflict of Interest	Botulinum Toxin Research Assoc	$5,000 - $9,999
Eric Johnson	University of Wisconsin Madison	Conflict of Interest	Botulinum Toxin Research Assoc	$5,000 - $9,999
Eric A. Johnson	University of Wisconsin Madison	Conflict of Interest	Ultra Safe Foods LLC	$0 - $4,999
Eric A. Johnson	University of Wisconsin Madison	Conflict of Interest	Manex, Inc.	$0 - $4,999
Eric Johnson	University of Wisconsin Madison	Conflict of Interest	Botulinum Toxin Research Associates	$0 - $4,999
Eric Johnson	University of Wisconsin Madison	Conflict of Interest	Botulinum Toxin Research Associates	$0 - $4,999
Eric Johnson	University of Wisconsin Madison	Conflict of Interest	Ultra Safe Foods LLC	$0 - $4,999
Eric Johnson	University of Wisconsin Madison	Conflict of Interest	Manex, Inc.	$0 - $4,999
Eric A. Johnson	University of Wisconsin Madison	Conflict of Interest	Ultra Safe Foods LLC	Value cannot be readily determined
Eric Johnson	University of Wisconsin Madison	Conflict of Interest	CellSNAP LLC	Value cannot be readily determined
Eric A. Johnson	University of Wisconsin Madison	Conflict of Interest	Manex, Inc.	Value cannot be readily determined
Eric A. Johnson	Medical College of Wisconsin	Conflict of Interest	CellSNAP LLC	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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