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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James Kent
University of California Santa Cruz, Department: Engineering (All Types)
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Kent Informatics
Salary not from the awardee Institution
This ¡s a renewal funding of a previously approved financial conflict of interest disclosure for James Kent on the NlHfunded project, "The UCSC
Genome Browser". The project aims to provide genome annotation, web browser, and b¡oinformatics tools for ana¡yzing
the human genome.
Kent reports (b)(4) in ¡ncome from Kent lnformatics, a company that creates and sells sequence search software that is
used ¡n this project. The software is free to academics and Kent lnformat¡cs receìves no d¡rect income as a result of its use, but
the ent¡ty benefits from free advertising.
The UCSC Genome Browser
The UCSC Genome Browser is a web-based tool that helps biomedical scientists understand the human genome and the genomes of many other species. It integrates the research work of scientific labs worldwide into a series of annotation tracks aligned to the DNA sequence from the Human Genome Project and related genome-sequencing efforts. Through the use of the browser, scientists and doctors can better understand the functions of genomic regions and the consequences of DNA variations observed in individuals.
Filed on July 27, 2018.
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James Kent filed other conflict of interest disclosures with the NIH:
| Name | Institution | Type | Company | Disclosed Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| James Kent | University of California Santa Cruz | Conflict of Interest | Kent Informatics | $100,000 - $149,999 |
| James Kent | University of California Santa Cruz | Conflict of Interest | Kent Informatics | $100,000 - $149,999 |
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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