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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Mark Lovell

University of Kentucky, Department: Neurosciences

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Disclosed Conflict of Interest with

Fawkes Biotechnology, LLC

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

Drs. Mark Lovell and colleagues developed an antibody-based test, similar in appearance to a pregnancy test, which provides an indication of the presence of and, by virtue of intensity, the severity of brain damage. The three investigators started Fawkes Biotechnology, LLC. Fawkes Biotechnology licensed from UK the “methods and systems for prognosis and diagnosis of brain damage”. The current study is a clinical study evaluating the technology in student-athletes.

Listed Research Project
Validation of a Point of Care Diagnostic Test for Sports Related Concussion

Narrative Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) resulting from sports related concussion (SRC) is a substantial public health concern with ~ 1.6 ? 3.8 million injuries per year in the United States. Despite considerable research there remains a critical need for a point of care test that can rapidly measure a maker of injury in blood on the playing field during a clinically useful time frame. Preliminary and future studies described in this proposal aim to test the usefulness of a lateral flow device (LFD) that quantifies a specific post-translational modification of visinin like protein 1 (VILIP-1), a neuron specific Ca2+-sensor protein released into blood following mTBI as an objective marker of SRC. �

Filed on April 15, 2019.

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Name Institution Type Company Disclosed Value
Mark Lovell University of Kentucky Conflict of Interest Fawkes Biotechnology, LLC Value cannot be readily determined
Name Institution Type Company Disclosed Value
Mark Lovell University of Kentucky Financial Disclosure
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