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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Robert van Dam
University of California Los Angeles, Department: Biochemistry
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SOFIE BIOSCIENCES, INC
Payment for services (e.g., consulting fees, honoraria, paid authorship)
Dr. Van Dam is the PI and a consultant for the company.
High-throughput radiochemistry platform for accelerated discovery and development of novel PET imaging agents for cancer
RELEVANCE TO PUBLIC HEALTH There is currently a delay of many years between the time biologists discover a novel cancer biomarker or potential therapeutic target, and the time when this target can be observed in living subjects via whole-body imaging. The goal of this proposal is to address this issue by creating a new high-throughput technology to accelerate the discovery/development of the novel ?tracers? that are needed to enable positron emission tomography (PET) imaging of the biological target. By offering practical, simultaneous production of many candidate tracers, the proposed platform will enable high-throughput in vitro and in vivo screening to rapidly find a molecule with suitable in vivo qualities for pre-clinical or clinical imaging.
Filed on May 10, 2017.
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Robert van Dam filed other conflict of interest disclosures with the NIH:
| Name | Institution | Type | Company | Disclosed Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robert van Dam | University of California Los Angeles | Conflict of Interest | SOFIE BIOSCIENCES, INC | $350,000 - $399,999 |
| Robert van Dam | University of California Los Angeles | Conflict of Interest | Sofie Biosciences | $350,000 - $399,999 |
| Robert Michael van Dam | University of California Los Angeles | Conflict of Interest | SOFIE BIOSCIENCES, INC. | $200,000 - $249,999 |
| Robert Michael van Dam | University of California Los Angeles | Conflict of Interest | SOFIE BIOSCIENCES, INC. | $40,000 - $59,999 |
| Robert Michael van Dam | University of California Los Angeles | Conflict of Interest | SOFIE BIOSCIENCES, INC. | Value cannot be readily determined |
| Robert van Dam | University of California Los Angeles | Conflict of Interest | SOFIE BIOSCIENCES, INC | Value cannot be readily determined |
Notes: When a more specific filing date is not available for an individual financial disclosure or conflict of interest form, we use the year the form was filed. If the year was not disclosed, we report the range of years covered by our public records requests. In a few cases, a start date was provided instead of a filing date. In those cases, we use the start date instead.
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