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 Texas Hlth Sci Ctr Houston
Houston, Texas
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: 68
| Name | Type | Company | Disclosed Value | Year Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lenard Lichtenberger | Conflict of Interest | PLx Pharma Inc. | $40,000 - $59,999 | 2014 |
| John Rasmussen | Conflict of Interest | NIRF Imaging, Inc. | $40,000 - $59,999 | 2015 |
| Hua Xu | Conflict of Interest | Melax Technologies, inc. | $40,000 - $59,999 | 2019 |
| Hua Xu | Conflict of Interest | Melax Technologies, Inc. | $40,000 - $59,999 | 2019 |
| Claudio Soto | Conflict of Interest | Amprion, Inc. | $20,000 - $39,999 | 2018 |
| Claudio Soto | Conflict of Interest | Amprion, Inc. | $20,000 - $39,999 | 2018 |
| Charles Cox | Conflict of Interest | Cellvation | $20,000 - $39,999 | 2016 |
| Claudio Soto | Conflict of Interest | Amprion, Inc. | $20,000 - $39,999 | 2019 |
| Charles Cox | Conflict of Interest | Cellvation, Inc. | $20,000 - $39,999 | 2019 |
| Claudio Soto | Conflict of Interest | Amprion, Inc. | $20,000 - $39,999 | 2019 |
| Claudio Soto Jara | Conflict of Interest | Amprion Inc. | $10,000 - $19,999 | 2016 |
| Hua Xu | Conflict of Interest | Melax Technologies, Inc. | $5,000 - $9,999 | 2019 |
| Charles Cox | Conflict of Interest | Cellvation | $5,000 - $9,999 | 2016 |
| Hua Xu | Conflict of Interest | Melax Technologies, inc. | $5,000 - $9,999 | 2019 |
| Joshua Hare | Conflict of Interest | Vestion, Inc. | $5,000 - $9,999 | 2015 |
| Charles Cox | Conflict of Interest | Cellvation, Inc. | $0 - $4,999 | 2019 |
| Charles Cox | Conflict of Interest | Cellvation, Inc. | $0 - $4,999 | 2019 |
| John Rasmussen | Conflict of Interest | NIRF Imaging Inc. | $0 - $4,999 | 2016 |
| Frank McKeon | Conflict of Interest | Tract Pharmaceuticals | $0 - $4,999 | 2018 |
| John Rasmussen | Conflict of Interest | NIRF Imaging, Inc. | $0 - $4,999 | 2017 |
| Charles Cox | Conflict of Interest | Cellvation | $0 - $4,999 | 2016 |
| Claudio Soto | Conflict of Interest | Amprion, Inc. | $0 - $4,999 | 2018 |
| Claudio Soto | Conflict of Interest | Amprion, Inc. | $0 - $4,999 | 2018 |
| Claudio Soto | Conflict of Interest | Amprion, Inc. | $0 - $4,999 | 2019 |
| Claudio Soto | Conflict of Interest | Amprion, Inc. | $0 - $4,999 | 2019 |
| Frank McKeon | Conflict of Interest | Tract Pharmaceuticals | $0 - $4,999 | 2018 |
| Claudio Soto Jara | Conflict of Interest | Amprion Inc. | $0 - $4,999 | 2016 |
| Frank McKeon | Conflict of Interest | MultiClonal Therapeutics, Inc. | $0 - $4,999 | 2018 |
| Frank McKeon | Conflict of Interest | MultiClonal Therapeutics, Inc. | $0 - $4,999 | 2018 |
| Wa Xian | Conflict of Interest | Tract Pharmaceuticals | $0 - $4,999 | 2019 |
| Shaoling Huang | Conflict of Interest | Zymo Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 2017 | |
| Melvin Klegerman | Conflict of Interest | Zymo Pharmaceuticals, LLC. | 2017 | |
| Lenard Lichtenberger | Conflict of Interest | PLx Pharma Inc. | 2014 | |
| Qingyun Liu | Conflict of Interest | Wntrix, Inc. | 2015 | |
| Claudio Soto | Conflict of Interest | Amprion, Inc. | 2019 | |
| Claudio Soto Jara | Conflict of Interest | Amprion Inc. | 2016 | |
| Hua Xu | Conflict of Interest | Melax Technologies, Inc. | 2019 | |
| Hua Xu | Conflict of Interest | Melax Technologies, inc. | 2019 | |
| Hua Xu | Conflict of Interest | Melax Technologies, Inc. | 2018 | |
| John Rasmussen | Conflict of Interest | NIRF Imaging Inc. | 2016 | |
| Stephanie Planque | Conflict of Interest | Covalent BioScience, Inc. | 2016 | |
| David Gorenstein | Conflict of Interest | AM Biotechnologies, LLC | 2014 | |
| Joshua Hare | Conflict of Interest | Vestion, Inc. | 2015 | |
| Hyunggun Kim | Conflict of Interest | Zymo Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 2017 | |
| Lenard Lichtenberger | Conflict of Interest | PLx Pharma, Inc. | 2017 | |
| David McPherson | Conflict of Interest | Zymo Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 2017 | |
| John Rasmussen | Conflict of Interest | NIRF Imaging, Inc. | 2017 | |
| John Rasmussen | Conflict of Interest | NIRF Imaging, Inc. | 2015 | |
| Eva Sevick | Conflict of Interest | NIRF Imaging | 2016 | |
| Claudio Soto | Conflict of Interest | Amprion, Inc. | 2018 |
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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