Dollars for Profs

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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William Roberts

University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Department: Biomedical Engineering

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Disclosed Conflict of Interest with

HistoSonics

Disclosed Value
Listed Reason
Intellectual property rights (e.g., royalties, patents, copyrights) not from the awardee Institution

See attached

Listed Research Project
Enhanced lithotripsy through coalescence and dispersion of cavitation bubbles

Narrative Urinary stones afflict an estimated 10% of Americans at some point in their lifetime. The preferred non- invasive treatment (shockwave lithotripsy) is only successful for 60-80% of patients. We seek to greatly improve the efficacy of shockwave lithotripsy with the addition of a specially designed low amplitude ultrasound field produced by a supplemental transducer.

Filed on September 25, 2017.

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Name Institution Type Company Disclosed Value
William Roberts University of Michigan Conflict of Interest HistoSonics, Inc. $40,000 - $59,999
William Robertson University of Texas at El Paso Financial Disclosure The Tom Lea Institute
William Roberts University of Michigan at Ann Arbor Conflict of Interest HistoSonics $0 - $4,999
William Roberts University of Michigan at Ann Arbor Conflict of Interest HistoSonics $0 - $4,999
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