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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Samantha Pattenden
Univ of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Department: None
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Triangle Biotechnology, Inc.
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.
The Institution has determined that since the technology could be further validated as a result of the research, these financial interests could conflict with project.
The application of Enhanced Cavitation to enable DNA and Chromatin Extraction from Archived Tissues
PROJECT NARRATIVE Formalin-fixed paraffin embedded (FFPE) patient biopsy samples are an important source of tumor tissue for cancer research and diagnostics. There is considerable interest in expanding the use of FFPE tissue to include epigenetic cancer signatures, which are heritable changes not associated with alteration in DNA sequence. We have invented a chemically inert reagent based on a metastable perfluorocarbon nanodroplet that our preliminary data indicate can be used to enhance and simplify processing of FFPE tissue for epigenetic analyses, including cancer diagnostics. We will explore and optimize aspects of this novel approach, with a goal towards commercial translation.
Filed on May 25, 2018.
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Samantha Pattenden filed other conflict of interest disclosures with the NIH:
| Name | Institution | Type | Company | Disclosed Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Samantha Pattenden | Univ of North Carolina Chapel Hill | Conflict of Interest | Triangle Biotechnology, Inc. | Value cannot be readily determined |
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