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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Nina Kraus
Northwestern University, Department: Other Health Professions
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Synaural
Equity Interest - Non-publicly traded entity ( e.g., stock, stock option, or other ownership interest)
The research is related to the focus of an entity in which Professor Kraus has significant financial interests. Professor Kraus is a founder of Synaural and holds equity interests in this non-publicly-traded entity. This entity has an option to license technology related to auditory brainstem response (ABR), specifically, intellectual property related to patents filed by Nina Kraus around ABR methodology, system, and analysis.
The close intersection of this research and Professor Kraus’s interests and Synaural's interests, particularly relative to ABR, results in the perception of a conflict of interest that should be managed.
A preschool biomarker for literacy
As objective neurophysiological measures of literacy become available, a logical step is to apply what has been learned about subcortical and cortical physiology and their relationships with reading to young pre- readers. The outcome of the proposed work will be a deeper understanding of the biological underpinnings of literacy, particularly in pre-literate children, and a means to exploit objective biological responses as biomarkers of future literacy. This outcome will positively impact our understanding of the core deficits leading to poor reading, and has the potential to spur early intervention programs to head off the potential onset of developmental dyslexia.
Filed on July 15, 2015.
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