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.

Filing Type

Conflict of Interest

Institutions must file significant disclosures to the National Institutes of Health if they determine financial relationships could affect the design, conduct or reporting of the NIH-funded research. The NIH provided us with their entire financial conflict of interest database, with filings from 2012 through 2019.

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Eric Johnson

University of Wisconsin Madison, Department: Microbiology/immun/virology

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Disclosed Conflict of Interest with

CellSNAP LLC

Disclosed Value

Value cannot be readily determined

Listed Reason

Investment vehicles, such as mutual funds and retirement accounts, controlled by the Investigator

An outside activity has a nexus with an individual's research activities if the outside activity arises from, relies upon or is related to the academic expertise that qualifies that individual to participate in federally funded research or human subjects research. The Institution has reasonably determined that the significant financial interest could directly and significantly affect the design, conduct, or reporting of the PHS-funded research and so requires management.

Listed Research Project

Characteristics of Botulinum Neurotoxins that determine potency

Project Narrative This project examines the mechanisms underlying the unique pathologic and pharmacologic properties of botulinum neurotoxin type A variants. These studies will yield novel insight into the structural elements associated with specific functions of these toxins, including cell entry, potency, and duration of action. The resulting data are of great significance to both, development of countermeasures to botulism, and advancement of pharmacologic uses of these toxins.

Filed on January 18, 2019.

Name	Institution	Type	Company	Disclosed Value
Eric A. Johnson	University of Wisconsin Madison	Conflict of Interest	CellSNAP LLC	$300,000 - $349,999
Eric Johnson	University of Wisconsin Madison	Conflict of Interest	CellSNAP LLC	$300,000 - $349,999
Eric Johnson	University of Wisconsin Madison	Conflict of Interest	Botulinum Toxin Research Associates	$60,000 - $79,999
Eric A. Johnson	Medical College of Wisconsin	Conflict of Interest	CellSNAP LLC	$60,000 - $79,999
Eric Johnson	University of Wisconsin Madison	Conflict of Interest	CellSNAP LLC	$60,000 - $79,999
Eric Johnson	University of Wisconsin Madison	Conflict of Interest	CellSNAP LLC	$60,000 - $79,999
Eric A. Johnson	University of Wisconsin Madison	Conflict of Interest	CellSNAP LLC	$5,000 - $9,999
Eric A. Johnson	Medical College of Wisconsin	Conflict of Interest	Botulinum Toxin Research Associates	$5,000 - $9,999
Eric A. Johnson	Medical College of Wisconsin	Conflict of Interest	Botulinum Toxin Research Associates	$5,000 - $9,999
Eric A. Johnson	Medical College of Wisconsin	Conflict of Interest	CellSNAP LLC	$5,000 - $9,999
Eric A. Johnson	Medical College of Wisconsin	Conflict of Interest	CellSNAP LLC	$5,000 - $9,999
Eric Johnson	University of Wisconsin Madison	Conflict of Interest	CellSNAP LLC	$5,000 - $9,999
Eric A. Johnson	University of Wisconsin Madison	Conflict of Interest	Botulinum Toxin Research Assoc	$5,000 - $9,999
Eric Johnson	University of Wisconsin Madison	Conflict of Interest	CellSNAP LLC	$5,000 - $9,999
Eric Johnson	University of Wisconsin Madison	Conflict of Interest	Botulinum Toxin Research Assoc	$5,000 - $9,999
Eric Johnson	University of Wisconsin Madison	Conflict of Interest	CellSNAP LLC	$5,000 - $9,999
Eric A. Johnson	University of Wisconsin Madison	Conflict of Interest	Botulinum Toxin Research Assoc	$5,000 - $9,999
Eric Johnson	University of Wisconsin Madison	Conflict of Interest	Botulinum Toxin Research Assoc	$5,000 - $9,999
Eric A. Johnson	University of Wisconsin Madison	Conflict of Interest	Manex, Inc.	$0 - $4,999
Eric A. Johnson	University of Wisconsin Madison	Conflict of Interest	Ultra Safe Foods LLC	$0 - $4,999
Eric Johnson	University of Wisconsin Madison	Conflict of Interest	Botulinum Toxin Research Associates	$0 - $4,999
Eric Johnson	University of Wisconsin Madison	Conflict of Interest	Botulinum Toxin Research Associates	$0 - $4,999
Eric Johnson	University of Wisconsin Madison	Conflict of Interest	Ultra Safe Foods LLC	$0 - $4,999
Eric Johnson	University of Wisconsin Madison	Conflict of Interest	Manex, Inc.	$0 - $4,999
Eric A. Johnson	University of Wisconsin Madison	Conflict of Interest	Ultra Safe Foods LLC	Value cannot be readily determined
Eric A. Johnson	University of Wisconsin Madison	Conflict of Interest	Manex, Inc.	Value cannot be readily determined
Eric A. Johnson	Medical College of Wisconsin	Conflict of Interest	CellSNAP LLC	Value cannot be readily determined

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Sources: National Institutes of Health, public records requests filed at multiple public state universities

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.

Fewer than 10% of records from the University of Florida and fewer than 1% of records from the University of Texas system were removed because they did not contain enough information.

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