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.

Filing Type

Conflict of Interest

Institutions must file significant disclosures to the National Institutes of Health if they determine financial relationships could affect the design, conduct or reporting of the NIH-funded research. The NIH provided us with their entire financial conflict of interest database, with filings from 2012 through 2019.

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Yangbing Zhao

University of Pennsylvania, Department: Internal Medicine/medicine

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Disclosed Conflict of Interest with

Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp

Disclosed Value

Value cannot be readily determined

Listed Reason

Other : IP assigned to Penn

Listed Research Project

Immuno/Immuno-Gene Therapies for Thoracic Malignancies

RELEVANCE: Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma is a highly lethal cancer caused by asbestos exposure. Since current treatments are relatively ineffective, new approaches are needed. This project will to use immuno- and immuno-gene therapy to activate the immune system of the patient or to modify the patient's own lymphocytes to treat this disease. Both animal studies and clinical trials are proposed.

Filed on May 15, 2013.

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Sources: National Institutes of Health, public records requests filed at multiple public state universities

Notes: When a more specific filing date is not available for an individual financial disclosure or conflict of interest form, we use the year the form was filed. If the year was not disclosed, we report the range of years covered by our public records requests. In a few cases, a start date was provided instead of a filing date. In those cases, we use the start date instead.

Fewer than 10% of records from the University of Florida and fewer than 1% of records from the University of Texas system were removed because they did not contain enough information.

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