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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Dean Li
University of Utah, Department: Internal Medicine/medicine
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University of Utah
Payment for services (e.g., consulting fees, honoraria, paid authorship)
The investigator's intellectual properties (licensed to Recursion Pharmaceuticals and Navigen) are being used in the study. The investigator reports significant equity interest as Chief Advisor in Recursion (a non-publicly traded company), and significant consulting remuneration as co-founder in Navigen (a non-publicly traded company). Per investigator, "Navigen provides chemical probes free of charge" in this research.
Identifying a nodal point for G alpha q signaling in eye disease
Uveal melanoma is a cancer that begins in the eye but often spreads to other vital organs of the body where it invariably causes death. We have identified a protein that may control several signaling pathways that are thought to play essential roles in uveal melanoma formation. If our study shows that this protein indeed controls uveal melanoma formation, we will have identified a molecular target that could be used to develop effective drugs for the treatment of this often-deadly cancer.
Filed on November 21, 2016.
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Dean Li filed other conflict of interest disclosures with the NIH:
| Name | Institution | Type | Company | Disclosed Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dean Li | University of Utah | Conflict of Interest | University of Utah | Value cannot be readily determined |
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