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.
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
The records below are financial disclosure and conflict of interest records obtained by ProPublica from the National Institutes of Health and dozens of large public universities across the country. The NIH only has records for researchers who seek or receive its funding.
Total Disclosures: 28
| Name | Type | Company | Disclosed Value | Year Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Kahn | Conflict of Interest | PRISM Pharma Co., Ltd. | >$600,000 | 2014 |
| Pinchas Cohen | Conflict of Interest | CohBar | >$600,000 | 2019 |
| Dana Goldman | Conflict of Interest | ACADIA PHARMACEUTICALS, Amgen and Precision Health Economics | $150,000 - $199,999 | 2019 |
| Darius Lakdawalla | Conflict of Interest | Otsuka Pharmaceuticals and Novartis | $100,000 - $149,999 | 2019 |
| Berislav Zlokovic | Conflict of Interest | ZZ Biotech | $60,000 - $79,999 | 2017 |
| Pinchas Cohen | Conflict of Interest | CohBar | $60,000 - $79,999 | 2019 |
| Mark Humayun | Conflict of Interest | Second Sight Medical Products (SSMP) | $20,000 - $39,999 | 2015 |
| Leonardo Morsut | Conflict of Interest | University of California at San Francisco | $20,000 - $39,999 | 2018 |
| Michael Kahn | Conflict of Interest | PRISM Pharma Co., Ltd. | $20,000 - $39,999 | 2014 |
| Changhan Lee | Conflict of Interest | CohBar, Inc. | $20,000 - $39,999 | 2018 |
| Danny Wang | Conflict of Interest | Translational MRI, LLC | $10,000 - $19,999 | 2017 |
| Justin Ichida | Conflict of Interest | Acurastem | $10,000 - $19,999 | 2017 |
| Danny Wang | Conflict of Interest | Translational MRI, LLC | $10,000 - $19,999 | 2017 |
| Akil Merchant | Conflict of Interest | Pfizer | $5,000 - $9,999 | 2019 |
| Amir Kashani | Conflict of Interest | Carl Zeiss, Inc. | $5,000 - $9,999 | 2017 |
| Homayoun Zadeh | Conflict of Interest | Personal IP rights | $0 - $4,999 | 2016 |
| Danny Wang | Conflict of Interest | Translational MRI, LLC | 2017 | |
| Michael Selsted | Conflict of Interest | Resolve Therapeutics, LLC | 2013 | |
| Brian Luna | Conflict of Interest | ExBaq | 2019 | |
| Brian Luna | Conflict of Interest | ExBaq | 2019 | |
| Bradley Spellberg | Conflict of Interest | ExBaq | 2019 | |
| Danny Wang | Conflict of Interest | Translational MRI, LLC | 2017 | |
| Berislav Zlokovic | Conflict of Interest | ZZ Biotech | 2017 | |
| Bradley Spellberg | Conflict of Interest | BioAIM, LLC | 2017 | |
| Travis Nielsen | Conflict of Interest | BioAIM, LLC | 2017 | |
| Michael Selsted | Conflict of Interest | Oryn Therapeutics, LLC | 2019 | |
| Bradley Spellberg | Conflict of Interest | ExBaq | 2019 | |
| Mark Humayun | Conflict of Interest | Second Sight Medical Products (SSMP) | 2015 |
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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