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Dig Into University Researchers' Outside Income and Conflicts of Interest

Published Dec. 6, 2019

This database was last updated in December 2019 and should only be used as a historical snapshot. There may be new or amended records not reflected here.

Financial doc
Filing Type

Conflict of Interest

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Maurice Swanson

University of California, San Diego, Department: Other Basic Sciences

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Disclosed Conflict of Interest with

Locaca Bio

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

At the University of Florida, Dr. Maurice Swanson is a Professor and Associate Director of the Center for NeuroGenetics in the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology and a Principal Investigator on research studies. Dr. Swanson serves as a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for Locana Bio. At times, Dr. Swanson engages in research that relates to Locana Bio’s interests. Locana Bio is interested in the use of CRISPR/Cas technology to develop treatments for neurological diseases, including myotonic dystrophy. Locana Bio can be affected by the research funded by NIH because of the use of similar technology and involves myotonic dystrophy, and Locana may use the same mutant mouse lines that are being developed in the NIH funded research.

Listed Research Project
Therapeutic strategies for microsatellite expansion diseases using RNA-targeting CRISPR/Cas

Project Narrative We seek to develop AAV-based therapeutic strategies for microsatellite expansion diseases using RNA- targeting CRISPR/Cas (Rcas9), perform in vivo safety studies and develop alternative RNA processing biomarkers reliable for measuring RCas9 treatment efficacy in myotonic dystrophy.

Filed on November 15, 2017.

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Name Institution Type Company Disclosed Value
Maurice Swanson University of Florida Financial Disclosure Lion Therapeutics
Maurice Swanson University of Florida Financial Disclosure The Robert Packard Center for ALS Research at John Hopkins
Maurice Swanson University of Florida Financial Disclosure Audentes Therapeutics, Inc.
Maurice Swanson University of Florida Financial Disclosure Locana, Inc
Maurice Swanson University of Florida Financial Disclosure NIGMS - National Institute of General Medical Sciences
Maurice Swanson University of Florida Financial Disclosure Fulcrum Therapeutics
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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.

Fewer than 10% of records from the University of Florida and fewer than 1% of records from the University of Texas system were removed because they did not contain enough information.

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