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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Kirk Thomas
University of Utah, Department: Internal Medicine/medicine
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Navigen
Equity Interest - Non-publicly traded entity ( e.g., stock, stock option, or other ownership interest)
The study will evaluate the investigator's intellectual property, Novel Recombinant Peptide Agonists for Robo4 (U-4560), which is licensed to Navigen, a company in which he holds an equity interest in Navigen.
Targeting ARF6, A Convergence Point For Multiple Pathways of Diabetic Retinopathy
Diabetic retinopathy (DR), the most prevalent cause of blindness in the United States, is a common complication of diabetes that is caused by inflammation and new blood vessel growth. We think we have identified a common denominator that helps control most inflammatory and blood vessel growth that cause DR. We will do experiments to test this hypothesis and to determine whether by inhibiting the function of this common denominator, we can reduce DR pathology in experimental animals that have DR and thus provide a method for the possible future treatment of this debilitating disease.
Filed on July 31, 2015.
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