Dollars for Profs

Dig Into University Researchers' Outside Income and Conflicts of Interest

Published Dec. 6, 2019

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Financial doc
Filing Type

Conflict of Interest

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Richard Finnell

Univ of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Department: Biostatistics & Other Math Sci

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Disclosed Conflict of Interest with

TeratOmic Consulting, LLC

Disclosed Value
Listed Reason
Payment for services (e.g., consulting fees, honoraria, paid authorship)

The financial interests of the investigator are related to the research as the business interests of TeratOmic Consulting, LLC overlap with the responsibilities on this grant. His role on the grant is the investigator of a subcontract. His responsibilities on the grant include assisting with the overall design, conducting research experiments and analysis and participating in the reporting of the results.

Listed Research Project
Bayesian Methods for High-Dimensional Epidemiologic Data

This project addresses a critical need of finding clues to the etiology and pathogenesis of congenital mal- formations, using data from the largest population-based study ever conducted on the causes of birth defects. While birth defects are the leading cause of infant mortality, the leading cause of death among children aged 1-4, and the fifth-ranked cause of premature mortality in the United States, many individual defects are too rare to be studied comprehensively, even in studies that are very large. Our new statistical methods for sparse shrinkage incorporate current knowledge of embryonic development and allow some borrowing of information across differ- ent birth defects while keeping each defect as a separate entity of interest in the statistical model. These novel methods will allow investigators to investigate the simultaneous influence of multiple exposures and combinations of exposures on multiple outcomes.

Filed on September 26, 2014.

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Name Institution Type Company Disclosed Value
Richard Finnell University of Texas, Austin Financial Disclosure TeratOmic Consulting
Richard Finnell Arkansas Children's Hospital Res Inst Conflict of Interest TeratOmic Consulting LLC $80,000 - $99,999
Richard Finnell Weill Medical Coll of Cornell Univ Conflict of Interest TeratOmic Consulting, LLC $80,000 - $99,999
Richard Finnell Weill Medical Coll of Cornell Univ Conflict of Interest TeratOmic Consulting, LLC $80,000 - $99,999
Richard Finnell University of Texas, Austin Conflict of Interest TeratOmic Consulting, LLC $80,000 - $99,999
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