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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Bernhard Hering
University of Minnesota, Department: Surgery
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Diabetes-Free
Equity Interest - Non-publicly traded entity ( e.g., stock, stock option, or other ownership interest)
Dr. Hering owns (b)(4) equity interest in Diabetes-Free, a company founded in 2013 to fund research in the diabetes field. Diabetes-Free developed pig constructs via a sponsored project to the University. Developing the same pig constructs was originally contemplated in the NIH budget for this project. Dr. Hering hopes to now use the Diabetes-Free pig constructs and re-allocate the money to other aims of the NIH project.
Pig-to-Monkey Islet Xenotransplantation
For porcine islet transplantation to become a viable treatment option for many patients with type 1 diabetes, prolonged diabetes reversal must be achieved consistently and with a safe and effective immunosuppressive protocol. Therefore, to meet these requirements, the long-term goal of the proposed preclinical studies is to develop a consistently effective, safe, and preferably maintenance drug-free, and clinically applicable protocol for preventing pig islet xenograft rejection. We hypothesize that drug-free islet xenograft survival can be prolonged with a multi-faceted rejection prophylaxis that targets the B cells and T cells that cause graft rejection.
Filed on April 24, 2017.
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