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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Jeffrey F. Miller

University of California Los Angeles, Department: Microbiology/immun/virology

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Disclosed Conflict of Interest with

AvidBiotics Corp

Disclosed Value
Listed Reason
Equity Interest - Non-publicly traded entity ( e.g., stock, stock option, or other ownership interest)

Professor Miller is the PI has disclosed that he is a co-founder of AvidBiotics, Corp, is a voting member of the Board of Directors, and is chair of the Scientific Advisory Board. He holds equity. AvidBiotics also supported his travel to three Scientific Advisory Boards during the past year. Additionally, he is the inventor of Intellectual Property owned by The Regents and licensed on an exclusive basis to AvidBiotics. The licensed IP is not being used in this study. However, per Professor Miller this IP involves the use of Diversity-Generating Retroelements (DGRs) for the directed evolution of proteins with desired ligand-binding specificities. DGRs were discovered in his UCLA laboratory and have potential applications that include therapeutics and diagnostics. The focus of the grant is understanding DRGs to reveal new mechanisms for accelerated evolution by bacteria and phage and to provide new paradigms for understanding adaptations of importance to human health and disease. Professor Miller and a colleague at UC San Diego share responsible for the direction of this study. Professor Miller is the contact Principal Investigator.

Listed Research Project
Diversity-Generation and Variable Protein Displays in Pathogens and Phage

Our studies will contribute to an understanding of a newly discovered mechanism that is widely used by bacteria and bacteriophage to generate massive amounts of protein diversity to accelerate the evolution of adaptive traits. Our proposed experiments involve important pathogens belonging to the Bordetella and Legionella genera.

Filed on April 18, 2013.

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Name Institution Type Company Disclosed Value
Jeffrey F. Miller University of California Los Angeles Conflict of Interest AvidBiotics Corp Value cannot be readily determined
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