Organisation paid for research Program year 2025 Source: CMS Open Payments

Optimal Research

Neither a doctor nor a teaching hospital

Research payments

$1,619,017

103 payments

Through program year 2025, Optimal Research is reported as receiving $1,619,017 in research payments, across 103 payments.

By program year

6 rows
Year Kind Amount Payments
2025 Research $55,917 20
2024 Research $8,530 10
2023 Research $690,453 21
2022 Research $284,098 23
2021 Research $364,037 5
2020 Research $215,984 24

Breakdown

Who paid Research payments · program years 2020–2025
  1. Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $1,300,491 28 payments
  2. Bavarian Nordic A/S $236,156 18 payments
  3. Pfizer Inc. $75,102 32 payments
  4. Seqirus USA Inc $4,837 11 payments
  5. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $1,229 1 payment
  6. Moderna TX, Inc. $1,202 13 payments
Studies the money was for Research payments · program years 2020–2025
  1. A Phase 3 Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-Controlled Clinical Study to Evaluate the Safety, Tolerability, and Immunogenicity of V116 When Administered Concomitantly with Influenza Vaccine in Adults 50 Years of Age or Older $815,979 9 payments
  2. A Phase 1,Phase 2, Randomized, Double-blind Study to Evaluate the Safety, Tolerability, and Immunogenicity of a Polyvalent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine in Adults $300,138 5 payments
  3. POX-MVA-031: Freeze-Dried MVA-BN Lot Consistency Smallpox Trial $235,656 16 payments
  4. A Phase 3, Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled Study to Evaluate the Safety, Tolerability, and Immunogenicity of the Concomitant Administration of Either 23-Valent Pneumococcal Polysaccharide Vaccine or 15-Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine with a Booster Dose of SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccine in Healthy Adults 50 Years of Age or Older. $136,674 4 payments
  5. A Phase 3 Multicenter Parallelgroup Openlabel Study to Evaluate the Safety Tolerability and Immunogenicity of Respiratory Syncytial Virus Prefusion F Subunit Vaccine When Coadministered With Herpes Zoster Subunit Vaccine in Adults 50 Years of Age $28,447 6 payments
  6. A Phase 12 Randomized Doubleblind Trial of the Safety and Immunogenicity of A Multivalent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine in Adults 18 Years of Age and Older $22,960 6 payments
  7. A Phase 3, Multicenter, Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled Study to Evaluate the Safety and Tolerability, Efficacy, and Immunogenicity of V591 MV SARS-CoV-2, Live, Recombinant in Healthy Individuals 16 Years of Age or Older $21,000 2 payments
  8. A Phase 3, Multicenter, Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled Study to Evaluate the Safety and Tolerability, Efficacy, and Immunogenicity of V590 rVSV G-SARS-CoV-2-S, Live in Healthy Individuals 16 Years of Age or Older $21,000 2 payments
  9. A Study to Evaluate the Safety Tolerability and Immunogenicity of Combined Vaccine Candidates Against Infectious Respiratory Illnesses Including Covid19 and RSV in Healthy Individuals $7,130 2 payments
  10. A Study to Evaluate the Safety Tolerability and Immunogenicity of Combined Vaccine Candidates Against Infectious Respiratory Illnesses Including Covid19 and RSV in Healthy Individuals $6,047 6 payments

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A noncovered recipient is an organisation paid for research that is neither an individual clinician nor a teaching hospital — typically a contract research organisation, a foundation or a trial site network. They receive 81% of all reported research money, which is why they appear here at all.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

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