Dollars for Profs

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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Brandon Cox

University of Washington, Department: Otolaryngology

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Disclosed Conflict of Interest with

Otonomy, Inc.

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

Dr. Cox's consulting role with the Biotech company Otonomy, Inc. would occur during her personal time (nights and weekends). It will not affect her time/effort on the grant. The consulting is considered a FCOI since she will be offering the company advice on similar topics to what her grant is focused on. See attached for the management plan created to address this concern.

Listed Research Project
Fate acquisition and function of type I and II vestibular hair cells in mammals

Project Narrative Vestibular hair cells are required for our balance and equilibrium, yet little is known about the specific functions of type I and II hair cells in mammals or how each hair cell type acquires its unique features. This project seeks to understand a newly discovered function of the transcription factor Sox2 in regulating the unique properties of each hair cell type in adult mice and will test how altering proportions of type I and II hair cells affects vestibular neural activity and animal behaviors. The knowledge gained will provide novel insights into mammalian vestibular hair cells that may help investigators develop therapies to restore balance function to human patients.

Filed on April 16, 2019.

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Name Institution Type Company Disclosed Value
Brandon Cox Southern Illinois University Sch of Med Conflict of Interest Otonomy, Inc. Value cannot be readily determined
Brandon Cox University of Washington Conflict of Interest Otonomy, Inc. Value cannot be readily determined
Brandon Cox Southern Illinois University Sch of Med Financial Disclosure St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Brandon Cox Southern Illinois University Sch of Med Financial Disclosure Turner Scientific, LLC
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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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