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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Neil Kelleher
Northwestern University, Department: Biochemistry
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Microbial Pharmaceutical
Equity Interest - Non-publicly traded entity ( e.g., stock, stock option, or other ownership interest)
Professor Kelleher is a founder of and has equity interests in Microbial Pharmaceutical. Microbial Pharmaceutical aims to create a pipeline to feed compounds from the natural world into pharmaceutical research. Microbial Pharmaceuticals has developed a platform, metabologenomics, that allows the study of the compounds that a class of bacteria produces rather than focusing on a single compound at a time.
This NIH research involves a genome-enabled metabolomics approach (a.k.a., ~metabologenomics~) to correctly identify natural products and correlate them with their biosynthetic gene clusters.
Because Microbial Pharmaceutical’s commercial pursuits relate to metabologenomics, Professor Kelleher’s relationship with the company and his involvement in this Northwestern research presents a potential conflict of interest that should be managed.
Mass Spectrometric Studies of Thiotemplate Biosynthesis
The proposed research will significantly advance public health because it provides a new path for the large- scale discovery and development of new drugs for human disease. This goal will be achieved by using a multidisciplinary approach that combines contemporary methods of genomics, metabolomics and synthetic chemistry to elucidate and investigate natural molecules from bacteria, a proven source of medicines used in hospitals today.
Filed on April 15, 2016.
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Neil Kelleher filed other conflict of interest disclosures with the NIH:
| Name | Institution | Type | Company | Disclosed Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Neil Kelleher | Northwestern University | Conflict of Interest | ThermoFisher | $10,000 - $19,999 |
| Neil Kelleher | Northwestern University | Conflict of Interest | Proteinaceous | Value cannot be readily determined |
| Neil Kelleher | Northwestern University | Conflict of Interest | Integrated Protein Technologies | Value cannot be readily determined |
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