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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Stephen Miller
Northwestern University at Chicago, Department: Microbiology/immun/virology
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Cour Pharmaceutical Development Company, Inc.
Payment for services (e.g., consulting fees, honoraria, paid authorship)
This project will test whether two FDA-approved drugs, digoxin and miconazole, alone and in combination with PLGA nanoparticle tolerance-based immunoregulatory therapies, promote remyelination in mouse models of multiple sclerosis (MS). The underlying PLGA nanoparticle technology is licensed to and being commercialized by Cour Pharmaceuticals, a company that Miller has a financial interest in. Should this project be successful, it could be of benefit to Cour, thus creating a perceived conflict of interest that should be managed.
Combining Immune Tolerance and Myelin Repair Therapy in T cell-driven MS Models
The proposed studies will investigate effects of the FDA-approved drugs, digoxin and miconazole, that we recently demonstrated to promote endogenous myelin repair by stimulating oligodendrocyte progenitor cell (OPC) expansion and/or differentiation, alone and in combination with PLG nanoparticle tolerance-based immunoregulatory therapies in mouse models of MS: chronic and relapsing remitting CD4+ T cell-mediated EAE driven by autoreactive myelin-specific Th1/17 cells. Digoxin and miconazole are orally available and cross the blood-brain barrier. The proposed pre-clinical studies will hopefully lead to development of a robust screening procedure for validating the efficacy of potential myelin repair drugs in vivo under inflammatory (EAE model) conditions as well as demonstrate a novel and safe targeted combinatorial therapeutic approach translatable into an effective MS disease modifying therapy.
Filed on March 13, 2019.
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Stephen Miller filed other conflict of interest disclosures with the NIH:
| Name | Institution | Type | Company | Disclosed Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stephen Miller | Northwestern University at Chicago | Conflict of Interest | Cour Pharmaceutical Development Company, Inc. | Value cannot be readily determined |
| Stephen Miller | Northwestern University at Chicago | Conflict of Interest | Cour Pharmaceutical Development Company, Inc. | Value cannot be readily determined |
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