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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Mark Tommerdahl
Univ of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Department: Biomedical Engineering
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Cortical Metrics
Other : IP rights from awardee institution
The SFIs of the investigator are related to the funded research since the technology being used in the project has been licensed to the company with which the investigator has multiple relationships. At this stage of the project, the Institution has determined that the technology could be further applied to a different clinical area as a result of the research, and therefore decided these financial interests could conflict with project.
Neurosensory Assessments of Headache
RELEVANCE TO PUBLIC HEALTH The overall goal of the proposed work is to investigate the utility of novel sensory-based methodologies that are currently being used in both basic and clinical research to track recovery in headache patients post- treatment. Recently, utilizing state-of-the-art technology, we built a multi-site tactile stimulator that allows for investigation of central nervous system (CNS) health and advanced methods in sensory perceptual metrics. These metrics have been demonstrated to be sensitive to changes in centrally mediated mechanisms; and systemic alterations of cortical health (via neurodegenerational, neurodevelopmental, pharmacological or trauma induced changes) robustly change the measures. It is anticipated that clinicians will be able to utilize these measures to improve diagnostic performance and enable assessment of efficacy of treatment. The study itself will serve to validate the utility of a number of these measures in headache and eventually provide health workers with a means to detect when an individual is under-reporting or over-reporting pain symptoms, and to track the recovery of an individual from headache. Better methods for measuring the progression of headache and response to treatment could lead to better diagnostics and therapeutics. Additionally, the information from this study could aid in understanding centrally mediated mechanisms that undergo significant alterations with headache.
Filed on September 10, 2015.
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Mark Tommerdahl filed other conflict of interest disclosures with the NIH:
| Name | Institution | Type | Company | Disclosed Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mark Tommerdahl | Univ of North Carolina Chapel Hill | Conflict of Interest | Cortical Metrics | Value cannot be readily determined |
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