Dollars for Profs

Dig Into University Researchers' Outside Income and Conflicts of Interest

Published Dec. 6, 2019

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Financial Disclosure

The University of Texas System provided all data on outside professional activity of faculty and staff from all campuses from 2016 to 2019. All university employees are required to disclose outside work or activities, which are reviewed for potential conflicts of interest and conflicts of commitment.

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Stanley Watowich

University of Texas Med Br Galveston, Department: Biochemistry & Molecular Bio

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Ridgeline Therapeutics, LLC

Additional Comments

Company was established in January 2013. It has been mostly inactive since that time. However, beginning in Summer 2018 it has begun to apply for non-dilutive funding. none Founder and sole owner of Ridgeline Therapeutics LLC, a startup company (established in 2013). In September 2018, the company distributed profits of $ that were the result of a recently awarded NIH STTR grant. We created Ridgeline Therapeutics to commercialize discoveries made in our laboratory at UTMB. These discoveries have been patented by UTMB. Ridgeline is in the process of negotiating a License for IP that was filed with US Patent Office (and PCT) on Mar 30, 2018. In addition, the company has submitted two NIH STTR Phase 1 grants; these have been recently funded. UTMB is listed as the non-profit Sub-Awardee on both STTR proposals. Dr. Jonathan Hommel and Dr. Christopher Fry each serve as PI for one for the STTR grant Sub-Awards. Drs. Hommel and Fry have no ownership or role e.g., they are not consultants/employees/etc) in the company and receive no compensation from Ridgeline. This arrangement has been made with the support, close collaboration, and cooperation of the UTMB Office of Technology Transfer. The company's recent efforts to commercialize our laboratory's discoveries has not affected fully performing my institutional responsibilities.

Filed on November 12, 2018.

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Name Institution Type Company Disclosed Value
Stanley Watowich University of Texas Med Br Galveston Financial Disclosure Oak Ridge Associated Universities
Stanley Watowich University of Texas Med Br Galveston Financial Disclosure Southwest Electronic Energy Medical Research Institute
Stanley Watowich University of Texas Med Br Galveston Financial Disclosure Ridgeline Therapeutics, LLC
Stanley Watowich University of Texas Med Br Galveston Financial Disclosure Southwest Electronic Energy Medical Research Institute
Stanley Watowich University of Texas Med Br Galveston Financial Disclosure Ridgeline Therapeutics, LLC
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