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http://www.lymediseaseassociation.or...lictReport.pdf


Alan G. Barbour, MD, Univ. of TX Health Sciences Center, San Antonio, TX. Among factors that may contribute to the appearance of conflict of interest, according to Federal guidelines:
1. Rights to multiple patents related to Lyme vaccines and tests (see patent table, above.)cxi[111]
2. Inventor of the vaccine technology used by Aventis Pasteur to manufacture its second (and third and beyond) generation vaccines. cxii[112]
Allen C. Steere, MD, Professor of Medicine/Chief of Rheumatology, Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston, MA.
Among factors that may contribute to the appearance of conflict of interest, according to federal guidelines:
1. 1. Lead researcher for the SmithKline Beecham Lyme disease vaccine, Lymerix.cxiii[113]
2. 2. On the consulting staff on Imugen, a biotechnology company whose product lines hinge, in large part, on success of the OspA vaccine.cxiv[114]
Other facts of interest:
3. 3. Steere published articles on the genetic marker theoretically associated with extreme vaccine adverse events for OspA vaccine, yet still worked to have the vaccine approved at the 1998 FDA hearing. cxv[115]
4. 4. Former employee of both the CDC and Yale University.