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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James Suen
Univ of Arkansas for Med Scis, Department: Otolaryngology
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CytoAstra, LLC
Equity Interest - Non-publicly traded entity ( e.g., stock, stock option, or other ownership interest)
The Investigator has an equity interest in CytoAstra, LLC and serves as the company's CEO. The Investigator performs research that has the potential to affect the value of CytoAstra, LLC.
In vivo real time detection of circulating melanoma cells
The capability of a painless, noninvasive, labeling-free, photoacoustic flow cytometry for selective, time-resolved detection of photoacoustic signals from different vessels will be assessed in (1) white and black healthy volunteers and (2) melanoma patients at different stages of disease, in whom circulating metastatic melanoma cells will be quantitatively determined. In the course of this study, we will obtain statistically significant data that will demonstrate this innovative technique's unprecedented capability for quantitatively monitoring circulating melanoma cells in vivo without the need for labeling. The benefits to the public health of achieving this goal extend to the routine monitoring of circulatin cells as early markers of micrometastatic development and cancer recurrence in vivo in melanoma patients, as well as to evaluating the efficacy of therapy.
Filed on November 20, 2018.
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