Dollars for Profs

Dig Into University Researchers' Outside Income and Conflicts of Interest

Published Dec. 6, 2019

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Financial doc
Filing Type

Conflict of Interest

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Jessica Sieren

University of Iowa, Department: Radiation Diagnostic/oncology

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Disclosed Conflict of Interest with

VIDA Diagnostics

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

The purpose of this research is to develop new imaging protocols which provide valuable insight to the cause of pulmonary diseases such as Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), emphysema and asthma, and which may be translated into multi-center, large population trials. Images will be used to see what the lowest radiation dose is that can be used to make measurements of the lung for diagnosis of disease.The IRB application states that image analysis will be done using the Vida Diagnostic software by the research team. Based on this analysis, we have determined that the interest could directly and significantly affect the design, conduct, or reporting of the PHS-funded research, or have the appearance of doing so.

Listed Research Project
Multi-center Structural & Functional Quantitative CT Pulmonary Phenotyping

Quantitative x-ray CT of lung structure has been successful in providing objective methods for detecting early lung disease and dividing subjects into sub-groups to aid in seeking new therapies for COPD and asthma. We now seek to: 1) add CT-based measures of function which we believe will provide greater insight into the actual cause of the lung abnormality; 2) lower x-ray dose needed for the measures; 3) develop new methods to make use of these large amounts of information; and 4) provide ways whereby cross institutional studies can accommodate multiple manufacturer's equipment as well as accommodate changes in equipment over time.

Filed on April 13, 2016.

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Name Institution Type Company Disclosed Value
Jessica Sieren Vida Diagnostics, Inc. Conflict of Interest VIDA Diagnostics, Inc. $5,000 - $9,999
Jessica Sieren University of Iowa Conflict of Interest VIDA Diagnostics Value cannot be readily determined
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