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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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Hua Xu
University of Texas Hlth Sci Ctr Houston, Department: Biology
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Melax Technologies, Inc.
Equity Interest - Non-publicly traded entity ( e.g., stock, stock option, or other ownership interest)
Dr. Xu is the founder, shareholder, and consultant to 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 Health Science Center Houston. 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 research will use novel ontology and NLP-based tools for modeling informed consent, thus to improve Biorepository data sharing. The project may utilize the CLAMP tool for the research.
Metadata applications on informed content to facilitate biorepository data regulation and sharing
PROJECT NARRATIVE The application of suitable metadata in support of the complex set of regulatory, legal, privacy and security requirement processes and information flows involved in regulated research is a field in an early phases of development. The complicated legal and technical requirements involved in the processes challenge our ability to effectively build information systems that support sharing of research data, specimens and other research artifacts at scale. In response to RFA-CA-15-017, this proposed project will develop suitable machine-based metadata representation and automatic annotation of regulatory processes focusing on informed consents and the associated documents. The proposed approach will presumably enhance the ability of regulatory bodies such as Institutional Review Boards to (a) review proposals in a more streamlined fashion, (b) have the potential to provide a more comprehensive understanding of risk along multiple axes, and (c) provide a formal and computable basis for data sharing and information release policies.
Filed on June 08, 2018.
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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 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 |
| Hua Xu | University of Texas Hlth Sci Ctr Houston | Conflict of Interest | Melax Technologies, Inc. | $40,000 - $59,999 |
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.
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