NanoViricides Inc. (NNVC)

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Anyone know if Moffat is one of the owners of N&N Pharmaceuticals Inc?

She's the first named inventor on a patent that she has assigned to N&N. The CEO of the company, Aquilur Rahman, is also named as a co-inventor.

https://www.google.com/patents/US20160324857

N&N Pharma has begun clinical trials on one of the compounds disclosed in this patent for shingles, which puts them quite a bit ahead of their competition, NNVC: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nn-pharmaceuticals-inc-commences-clinical-trials-on-its-novel-antiviral-drug-300254173.html

The NIH lists N&N as being "woman owned" which I assume means more than 50% of the shares are owned by women. (Aquilur Rahman, the CEO, is a man).

If Moffat has some interest in N&N, that might explain her lack of interest in progressing her academic career. It might also be predictive of how much interest she'd have in helping NNVC, whom she'd view has her competitor.

I wonder if Seymour was aware of this potential conflict of interest before he hired Moffat to screen his shingles candidate, assuming that's what he really did. Of course, if he only paid her a few peanuts to make things look good, he wouldn't really care.