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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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Stanley Hazen

Washington University, Department: Internal Medicine/medicine

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Disclosed Conflict of Interest with

Liposcience, Inc.

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

Dr. Hazen developed technology that relates to this grant and includes the use of assays for specific gut flora metabolites as potential diagnostic tests for the prediction of cardiovascular risks. The patent application for this technology is titled “Trimethylamine compounds as risk predictors of cardiovascular disease.” Cleveland Clinic and Liposcience, Inc. entered into a license agreement for this technology. The license agreement provides for the receipt of commercialization revenues by Cleveland Clinic. As an inventor, Dr. Hazen is entitled to a portion of the commercialization revenues Cleveland Clinic receives. Therefore, the Cleveland Clinic Innovation Management and Conflict of Interest Program determined that the significant financial interests in the company could directly and significantly affect the design, conduct or reporting of the research.

Listed Research Project
Lipid Biomarkers for Diabetic Heart Disease

Diabetes is associated with serious cardiovascular complications including heart failure that is unrelated to coronary artery disease. Scientific evidence suggests that blood fat levels play a major role in this complication. Our study will investigate the link between blood fat levels and heart function in adults with type 2 diabetes. Our goal is to develop new blood-based biomarkers of heart disease in diabetics and to provide insight into mechanisms underlying this disorder that will inform new therapeutic strategies.

Filed on May 15, 2013.

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Name Institution Type Company Disclosed Value
Stanley Hazen University of California Los Angeles Conflict of Interest Cleveland Heartlab, Inc. $550,000 - $599,999
Stanley Hazen Cleveland Clinic Lerner Com Cwru Conflict of Interest Cleveland HeartLab, Inc. $250,000 - $299,999
Stanley Hazen Cleveland Clinic Lerner Com Cwru Conflict of Interest Liposcience, Inc. $20,000 - $39,999
Stanley Hazen Cleveland Clinic Lerner Com Cwru Conflict of Interest Cleveland HeartLab, Inc. $10,000 - $19,999
Stanley Hazen Cleveland Clinic Lerner Com Cwru Conflict of Interest Cleveland HeartLab, Inc. $10,000 - $19,999
Stanley Hazen Washington University Conflict of Interest Liposcience, Inc. $20,000 - $39,999
Stanley Hazen University of California Los Angeles Conflict of Interest Cleveland Heartlab, Inc. $10,000 - $19,999
Stanley Hazen Cleveland Clinic Lerner Com Cwru Conflict of Interest Cleveland HeartLab, Inc. $250,000 - $299,999
Stanley Hazen Tufts University Boston Conflict of Interest Cleveland Clinic $10,000 - $19,999
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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.

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