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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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Nathanael Gray

New York University School of Medicine, Department: Internal Medicine/medicine

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Disclosed Conflict of Interest with

Syros

Disclosed Value
Listed Reason
Equity Interest - Publicly traded entity (e.g., stock, stock option, or other ownership interest)

Syros licensed a cyclin- dependent kinase 7 (CDK7) inhibitor developed in Dr. Gray’s laboratory at DFCI. Syros aims to understand the non-coding region of the genome to advance new medicines that control expression of disease-driving genes. According to publicly available information, Syros has built a proprietary platform designed to systematically and efficiently analyze this unexploited region of DNA in human disease tissue to identify and drug novel targets linked to genomically defined patient populations, including CDK inhibitors. Syros is currently focused on cancer and immune-mediated diseases and is advancing the following lead drug candidates: (i) SY-1425, a selective RARα agonist; and (ii) SY-1365, a selective CDK7 inhibitor with potential in a range of solid tumors and blood cancers. The company also recently announced that it is advancing four preclinical programs, including the oral CDK7 inhibitor program and its cyclin-dependent kinase 12/13 (CDK12/13) inhibitor program. The proposed project aims to investigate the therapeutic potential of CDK inhibitors for broadly targeting transcriptional and epigenetic dependencies in chemo-refractory small cell lung cancer (SCLC). The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Conflict of Interest Committee concluded that the results of this research could be of scientific and financial interest to Syros and, accordingly, represented a financial conflict of interest under the regulations.

Listed Research Project
Targeting the transcriptional and epigenetic landscape in chemo-refractory Small-Cell Lung Cancer

Narrative Small Cell Lung Cancer (SCLC) rapidly develops resistance to first-line chemotherapy. There are currently no treatment options for patients with chemo-refractory disease leading to a very poor prognosis. Building on promising initial results in preclinical SCLC models, this proposal aims to investigate the therapeutic potential of CDK inhibitors for broadly targeting transcriptional and epigenetic dependencies in chemo-refractory SCLC.

Filed on September 18, 2017.

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Name Institution Type Company Disclosed Value
Nathanael Gray Dana Farber Cancer Inst Conflict of Interest C4 Therapeutics $80,000 - $99,999
Nathanael Gray Dana Farber Cancer Inst Conflict of Interest C4 Therapeutics $80,000 - $99,999
Nathanael Gray New York University School of Medicine Conflict of Interest Syros $60,000 - $79,999
Nathanael Gray Dana Farber Cancer Inst Conflict of Interest Petra Pharmaceuticals $60,000 - $79,999
Nathanael Gray Dana Farber Cancer Inst Conflict of Interest C4 Therapeutics Value cannot be readily determined
Nathanael Gray Dana Farber Cancer Inst Conflict of Interest Petra Pharmaceuticals Value cannot be readily determined
Nathanael Gray Dana Farber Cancer Inst Conflict of Interest C4 Therapeutics Value cannot be readily determined
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