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Dig Into University Researchers' Outside Income and Conflicts of Interest

Published Dec. 6, 2019

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Filing Type

Conflict of Interest

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Coy Heldermon

University of Florida, Department: Internal Medicine/medicine

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Disclosed Conflict of Interest with

Lacerta Therapeutics, Inc.

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. Coy Heldermon is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine and is a physician scientist who sees patients with cancer as well as lysosomal storage disease. Dr. Heldermon owns approximately (b)(4) of the stock in Lacerta Therapeutics, Inc. and serves as member of the Board of Directors for the company. At times, Dr. Heldermon engages in research that relates to Lacerta Therapeutics, Inc.’s AAV Vector interests. Lacerta Therapeutics, Inc. is interested in use of AAV vectors in the treatement to target AADC deficiency, SCA, MPS IIIB deficiency, and Alheimer’s disease. Lacerta Therapeutics, Inc. can be affected by the research funded by NIH because of using similar AAV vectors .

Listed Research Project
Optimizing AAV Vectors for Central Nervous System transduction

Project Narrative The goals of this research are to improve on current CNS-directed gene therapy approaches for Sanfilippo Syndrome and neurodegenerative diseases in general by comparing 40 promising vectors directly and confirming the cell type and expression levels of the best vectors in murine and primate models. The efficacy of the best vector will then be assessed in the murine model of Mucopolysaccharidosis type IIIB (MPS IIIB or Sanfilippo Syndrome type B). This disease has a devastating impact on the children and families affected and this proposal will identify an optimal therapy to relieve this disease burden.

Filed on November 15, 2017.

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Name Institution Type Company Disclosed Value
Coy Heldermon University of Florida Conflict of Interest Lacerta Therapeutics, Inc. $0 - $4,999
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Coy Heldermon University of Florida Financial Disclosure Guidepoint
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