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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Porur Somasundaram
University of Rochester, Department: Internal Medicine/medicine
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Gilead
Equity Interest - Publicly traded entity (e.g., stock, stock option, or other ownership interest)
Investigator holds stock in the company which markets the drug, ranolazine, being used in this NIH sponsored study.
Late Sodium Current Blockade in High-Risk ICD Patients - CCC - Lead Application
The trial with late sodium channel blockade ranolazine in high-risk ICD patients is very much needed since there is no safe and effective treatment for a large number of patients with high risk of ventricular tachyarrhythmias. It is of interest to clinicians, NHLBI, and patients to improve the very low survival of patients at increased risk of ventricular tachyarrhythmias. It is worth stressing that late sodium current blockade represents a new scientifically attractive concept of anti-arrhythmic therapy after two decades of no significant developments in pharmacologic treatment of ventricular arrhythmias. Conducting such a trial might open the door to the development of an entire line of compounds targeting the late sodium current as their main mode of anti-arrhythmic action.
Filed on December 18, 2014.
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