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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Vadim Backman
Northwestern University, Department: Biomedical Engineering
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NanoCytomics
Payment for services (e.g., consulting fees, honoraria, paid authorship)
The research is related to the focus of an entity in which Professor Backman has significant financial interests, NanoCytomics. NanoCytomics has licensed intellectual property arising from Northwestern research related to a technology platform within the field of nanocytology that is intended to identify patients that are likely to benefit from gold-standard cancer diagnostic procedures. Partial wave spectroscopic (PWS) microscopy is a breakthrough technology platform that enables quantification of the nanoscale architecture of the cell with unprecedented accuracy.
This research aims to refine PWS to give faster results and help identify patients that require diagnostic testing This work relates to intellectual property owned by NanoCytomics and new intellectual property arising from this research will likely utilize NanoCytomics as a commercial vehicle. Therefore, a potential conflict of interest exists regarding Professor Backman’s NanoCytomics interests and this research that should be managed.
Risk-stratification of Prostate Cancers via Field Carcinogenesis Nanocytology
Prostate cancer is the leading cancer among U.S. men. The biggest limitation of current prostate cancer management that it is essentially impossible to accurately prognosticate which patients harbor aggressive cancers that progress into a metastatic disease and need treatment and which patients have non-aggressive indolent cancers that would not pose harm. Technology developed in the proposed project will address this issue by detecting alterations in nanoscale morphology of prostate epithelial cells that are highly predictive of the risk of progression.
Filed on August 31, 2015.
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Vadim Backman filed other conflict of interest disclosures with the NIH:
| Name | Institution | Type | Company | Disclosed Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vadim Backman | Northwestern University | Conflict of Interest | Nanocytomics, LLC | $150,000 - $199,999 |
| Vadim Backman | Northwestern University | Conflict of Interest | NanoCytomics, LLC | $150,000 - $199,999 |
| Vadim Backman | Northwestern University | Conflict of Interest | Nanocytomics | $80,000 - $99,999 |
| Vadim Backman | Northwestern University | Conflict of Interest | Nanocytomics | $20,000 - $39,999 |
| Vadim Backman | Northwestern University | Conflict of Interest | American BioOptics | $0 - $4,999 |
| Vadim Backman | Northwestern University | Conflict of Interest | NanoCytomics | Value cannot be readily determined |
| Vadim Backman | Northwestern University | Conflict of Interest | American BioOptics | Value cannot be readily determined |
| Vadim Backman | Northwestern University | Conflict of Interest | NanoCytomics, LLC | Value cannot be readily determined |
| Vadim Backman | Northwestern University | Conflict of Interest | Nanocytomics, LLC | Value cannot be readily determined |
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.
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