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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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Hua Xu

University of Texas Hlth Sci Ctr Houston, Department: Surgery

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Disclosed Conflict of Interest with

Melax Technologies, Inc.

Disclosed Value
Listed Reason
Payment for services (e.g., consulting fees, honoraria, paid authorship)

Dr. Xu is the founder, owner, shareholder, and consultant of Melax Technologies, Inc., a private, for-profit company which will provide natural language processing software (NLP) software and service for healthcare. Melax Technologies, Inc., has an exclusive license agreement with The University of Texas. The technology licensed to the company involves Clinical Language Annotation Modeling and Processing (CLAMP) toolkit and the license is exclusive to software and includes services. The Informatics Component of this research will use data, information, and knowledge to advance the science of clinical care. This project may utilize CLAMP to extract trial eligibility criteria from unstructured text found in EHRs and ClinicalTrials.gov.

Listed Research Project
Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences (CCTS)

Project Narrative

Filed on August 01, 2019.

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Name Institution Type Company Disclosed Value
Hua Xu University of Texas Hlth Sci Ctr Houston Conflict of Interest Melax Technologies, inc. $5,000 - $9,999
Hua Xu University of Texas Hlth Sci Ctr Houston Conflict of Interest Melax Technologies, Inc. Value cannot be readily determined
Hua Xu University of Texas Hlth Sci Ctr Houston Conflict of Interest Melax Technologies, Inc. Value cannot be readily determined
Hua Xu University of California, San Diego Conflict of Interest Melax Technologies, Inc. Value cannot be readily determined
Hua Xu University of Washington Conflict of Interest Melax Technologies, Inc. Value cannot be readily determined
Hua Xu University of Washington Conflict of Interest Melax Technologies, Inc. Value cannot be readily determined
Hua Xu University of Texas Hlth Sci Ctr Houston Conflict of Interest Melax Technologies, Inc. Value cannot be readily determined
Hua Xu Vanderbilt University Medical Center Conflict of Interest Melax Technologies, Inc. Value cannot be readily determined
Hua Xu Mayo Clinic Rochester Conflict of Interest Malex Technologies, Inc. Value cannot be readily determined
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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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