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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Leonardo Morsut
University of Southern California, Department: Internal Medicine/medicine
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University of California at San Francisco
Intellectual property rights (e.g., royalties, patents, copyrights) not from the awardee Institution
UCSF receives royalty income from a company called Cell Design Labs. As an inventor of the related IP, Leonardo receives a share of this royalty income and is performing research on this IP at the University of Southern California.
Engineering Synthetic Receptor Systems That Can Detect Specific Cell-Cell Contact
One of the goals of synthetic biology is to be able to engineer cells that can sense and report on new signals. We have recently developed a new modular synthetic receptor construct, based on the Notch receptor, in which we can swap the extracellular ligands that are sensed by the receptor, and link receptor activation by contact with a cell expressing the cognate ligand to a transcriptional response. This synthetic cell-cell contac receptor platform represents the first way to flexibly control cells in response to user-specified cell contact signals, and will be developed to map cell connectivity networks and to control stem cell differentiation for tissue repair or regeneration.
Filed on January 31, 2018.
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