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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William W. Busse

University of Wisconsin Madison, Department: Pediatrics

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Disclosed Conflict of Interest with

Boston Scientific.

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

How the interest relates to the PHS-funded research: This outside activity has a nexus with the investigator's research activities because the outside activity arises from and relies upon the academic expertise that qualifies this individual to participate in this PHS funded research activity.

Basis for determination of conflict: The combination of the investigator's significant financial interest in the outside activity and the nexus between the investigator's research corresponds to the definition of a FCOI and so requires management.

Listed Research Project
Wisconsin Center for the Neuroscience and Psychophysiology of Meditation

Meditation is widely used throughout the United States to improve well-being and to help relieve suffering associated with many diseases, yet there is preciously little understanding of how meditation works. In this CERC, we propose to extend the research we began during the previous grant period that seeks to understand the neural bases and biological and behavioral correlates of two different forms of meditation. This research will shed on the mechanisms by which meditation exerts its effects.

Filed on September 27, 2013.

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Name Institution Type Company Disclosed Value
William W. Busse University of Wisconsin Madison Conflict of Interest Hoffmann - La Roche, Inc. Value cannot be readily determined
William W. Busse Pennsylvania State Univ Hershey Med Ctr Conflict of Interest Novartis $20,000 - $39,999
William W. Busse University of Wisconsin Madison Conflict of Interest Takeda Pharmaceuticals International, Inc. $0 - $4,999
William W. Busse University of Wisconsin Madison Conflict of Interest AstraZeneca $0 - $4,999
William W. Busse University of Wisconsin Madison Conflict of Interest Novartis Value cannot be readily determined
William W. Busse University of Wisconsin Madison Conflict of Interest Genentech $5,000 - $9,999
William W. Busse Pennsylvania State Univ Hershey Med Ctr Conflict of Interest Merck $10,000 - $19,999
William W. Busse University of Wisconsin Madison Conflict of Interest Merck $5,000 - $9,999
William W. Busse Pennsylvania State Univ Hershey Med Ctr Conflict of Interest Genentech $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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