Competing interests
Washington University and R.J.B. have equity ownership interest in C2N Diagnostics and receive royalty income based on technology (blood plasma assay) licensed by Washington University to C2N Diagnostics, and R.J.B. receives income from C2N Diagnostics for serving on the scientific advisory board. Washington University has submitted the US provisional patent application ‘Plasma Based Methods for Detecting CNS Amyloid Deposition’ (co-inventor, R.J.B.) and the US non-provisional patent application ‘Methods of Diagnosing and Treating Based on Site-Specific Tau Phosphorylation’ (co-inventors, R.J.B. and N.R.B.).