Dollars for Profs

Dig Into University Researchers' Outside Income and Conflicts of Interest

Published Dec. 6, 2019

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Financial doc
Filing Type

Conflict of Interest

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James Thomson

Morgridge Institute for Research, Inc., Department: Na

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Disclosed Conflict of Interest with

Opsis Therapeutics

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

This outside activity has a nexus with the investigator’s research activities because the outside activity arises from, relies upon, or is related to the expertise that qualifies this individual to participate in this federally funded research. The disclosed significant financial interest is related to the area of expertise of the investigator. The entity, Opsis Therapeutics, fabricates retinal cell grafts from induced-pluripotent stem cells and bio-compatible materials for delivery via standard surgical techniques.

Listed Research Project
Human iPS/ES Cell-Based Models for Predictive Neural Toxicity and Teratogenicity

This project will develop three-dimensional constructs of human neural tissue to better predict the neural toxicity of drugs prior to clinical trials. To accomplish this, experts in human pluripotent stem cell biology will grow the required neural components in the laboratory, experts in tissue engineers will assemble those cells into multicellular constructs, and experts in machine learning will use changes in gene expression after drug exposure to predict whether a test compound is toxic.

Filed on April 06, 2018.

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Name Institution Type Company Disclosed Value
James Thomson Morgridge Institute for Research, Inc. Conflict of Interest Cellular Dynamics International >$600,000
James Thomson Morgridge Institute for Research, Inc. Conflict of Interest Cellular Dynamics International >$600,000
James Thomson Morgridge Institute for Research, Inc. Conflict of Interest Cellular Dynamics International $150,000 - $199,999
James Thomson Morgridge Institute for Research, Inc. Conflict of Interest Cellular Dynamics International $150,000 - $199,999
James Thomson Morgridge Institute for Research, Inc. Conflict of Interest Opsis Therapeutics $150,000 - $199,999
James Thomson Morgridge Institute for Research, Inc. Conflict of Interest Cellular Dynamics International $0 - $4,999
James Thomson Morgridge Institute for Research, Inc. Conflict of Interest Cellular Dynamics International $0 - $4,999
James Thomson Morgridge Institute for Research, Inc. Conflict of Interest Cellular Dynamics International Value cannot be readily determined
James Thomson Morgridge Institute for Research, Inc. Conflict of Interest Cellular Dynamics International 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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