Dollars for Profs
Dig Into University Researchers' Outside Income and Conflicts of Interest
Published Dec. 6, 2019
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Conflict of Interest
Institutions must file significant disclosures to the National Institutes of Health if they determine financial relationships could affect the design, conduct or reporting of the NIH-funded research. The NIH provided us with their entire financial conflict of interest database, with filings from 2012 through 2019.
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Karen Christman
University of California, San Diego, Department: Engineering (All Types)
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Ventrix
Equity Interest - Non-publicly traded entity ( e.g., stock, stock option, or other ownership interest)
Ventrix, Inc. The PI is a co-founder, member of the Scientific Advisory Board, and has approximately (b)(4) equity interest in the company. The company may benefit from the results of this research.
Extracellular matrix hydrogels for treating ischemia
The development of alternatives therapies for myocardial infarction and peripheral artery disease is a necessity because of the large patient populations. This application seeks to development new tissue- engineered minimally invasive therapies for treating myocardial and critical limb ischemia.
Filed on February 24, 2015.
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Karen Christman filed other conflict of interest disclosures with the NIH:
| Name | Institution | Type | Company | Disclosed Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Karen Christman | Emory University | Conflict of Interest | Ventrix, Inc. | >$600,000 |
| Karen Christman | Emory University | Conflict of Interest | Ventrix, Inc. | $40,000 - $59,999 |
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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