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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Jacob Robinson
Rice University, Department: Engineering (All Types)
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SouthCoast Neurotechnologies
Equity Interest - Non-publicly traded entity ( e.g., stock, stock option, or other ownership interest)
Academic work supported by this research is potentially relevant to future work at SouthCoast Neurotechnologies (the "Company") in that technology resulting from the funded research may be commercialized by the Company in the future. However, no work at Rice will be owned by or otherwise directly support the Company. Regardless, Rice University determined that this relationship may constitute a conflict of interest because it may be perceived that Drs. Jacob Robinson and Caleb Kemere’s relationship with the Company could affect the design, conduct, or reporting of this research.
Fluidic microdrives for minimally invasive actuation of flexible electrodes
Public Health Relevance Statement Implantable microelectrodes are a valuable tool for applications that require decoding the activity of individual neurons at high spatial and temporal resolution, such as brain-machine interfaces and neuroprosthetic devices. Early work using large and stiff electrodes showed that these devices trigger a foreign body reaction in the host tissue that can reduce the quality and longevity of the recordings. Smaller, flexible electrodes reduce the foreign body response; yet there are currently no technologies to insert and reposition these electrodes without stiffeners that increase the size of the electrode and produce acute damage. The fluidic microdrive technology proposed here will enable implantation and actuation of bare state-of-the-art flexible electrodes without using stiffeners or shuttles and thereby dramatically reduce acute neural damage during electrode implantation.
Filed on October 02, 2017.
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