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Dig Into University Researchers' Outside Income and Conflicts of Interest

Published Dec. 6, 2019

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Financial doc
Filing Type

Conflict of Interest

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Brian Cupps

Washington University, Department: Surgery

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Disclosed Conflict of Interest with

CardioWise,LLC

Disclosed Value
Listed Reason
Equity Interest - Non-publicly traded entity ( e.g., stock, stock option, or other ownership interest)

Based on Washington University’s Research COI Policy and the Procedures for Determining and Managing Research Financial Conflicts of Interests, Washington University determined Dr. Cupps’ personal financial relationship with CardioWise, LLC., related to the above referenced research creates a financial conflict of interest due to the following reasons:

(1) CardioWise licenses the intellectual property being utilized and evaluated in the research;

(2) Because Dr. Cupps own equity in CardioWise and will earn royalties from the sale and distribution of the licensed technology, he could directly benefit, should the company’s equity value increase as a result of the study;

(3) Dr. Cupps’ role as a member of the research team in designing the study, collecting/analyzing/reviewing the data, reporting the results, and supervising individuals

Listed Research Project
REGIONAL VENTRICULAR STRAIN METRICS TO PREDICT NEW-ONSET HEART FAILURE COURSE

In the clinical management of critically ill new-onset heart failure patients, the inability to immediately differentiate those who will respond to medical therapy from those who will not results in the inappropriate application of high-risk heart failure surgery in patients who do not need it, while simultaneously denying surgery to those who have the most to benefit from it. We have identified 'sentinel' left ventricular regions that serve as harbingers of irreversible contractile injury in new-onset heart failure patients. We hypothesize that the surveillance of these regions by advanced strain-based metrics of contractile function (MRI-based multi- parametric strain analysis) will better direct the application of high-risk heart failure surgical therapy by allowing the risk stratification of new onset heart failure patients in regard to response to medical therapy and the subsequent occurrence of heart failure adverse events.

Filed on April 15, 2013.

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Name Institution Type Company Disclosed Value
Brian Cupps Washington University Conflict of Interest CardioWise,LLC Value cannot be readily determined
Brian Cupps Washington University Conflict of Interest CardioWise,LLC $0 - $4,999
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