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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Sean Palecek

University of Wisconsin Madison, Department: Genetics

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Disclosed Conflict of Interest with

Allen Institute for Cell Science

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

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
Molecular Genetics of Age-Dependent Retinal Degeneration

Project Narrative For age-dependent diseases to manifest themselves in an age-dependent manner, the process of aging and its associated cellular changes must play key roles. Using mouse models with accelerated retinal aging and age-related disease pathologies in the retina, we propose to determine the molecular mechanisms underlying theses conditions. This study may provide insights into how age-dependent retinal pathologies are caused and offer therapeutic strategies for prevention of retinal conditions associated with aging and age-dependent retinal disorders.

Filed on September 19, 2018.

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Name Institution Type Company Disclosed Value
Sean Palecek University of Wisconsin Madison Conflict of Interest Biolife 4D $5,000 - $9,999
Sean Palecek University of Wisconsin Madison Conflict of Interest Allen Institute for Cell Science $40,000 - $59,999
Sean Palecek University of Wisconsin Madison Conflict of Interest Allen Institute for Cell Science $20,000 - $39,999
Sean Palecek University of Wisconsin Madison Conflict of Interest Allen Institute for Cell Science $40,000 - $59,999
Sean Palecek University of Wisconsin Madison Conflict of Interest Biolife 4D $5,000 - $9,999
Sean Palecek University of Wisconsin Madison Conflict of Interest Biolife 4D $5,000 - $9,999
Sean Palecek University of Wisconsin Madison Conflict of Interest Allen Institute for Cell Science $20,000 - $39,999
Sean Palecek University of Wisconsin Madison Conflict of Interest Biolife 4D $5,000 - $9,999
Sean Palecek University of Wisconsin Madison Conflict of Interest Biolife 4D $5,000 - $9,999
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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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