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Can an industrial adviser influence the appointment of an independent reviewer?
C-POLAR does not appoint the reviewers of a paper.
The peer-reviewed paper behind the technology is Gong, Or, Sze et al., Microbiology Spectrum 12(9), e0409723, American Society for Microbiology, September 2024, doi 10.1128/spectrum.04097-23. The paper tested live SARS-CoV-2 and bovine coronavirus on treated textile and filter media, and bacterial viability on treated textiles, in laboratory conditions. The published paper states that the work was supported by unrestricted grants from C-POLAR Technologies, Inc., and in part by the Hong Kong Research Grants Council, the Czech Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS), the KGH Foundation and the University of British Columbia Okanagan, and that its authors declare no conflict of interest; it also states: “A.R. receives consulting fees from C-POLAR Technologies, Inc.” Three of its 31 authors list C-POLAR Technologies as their affiliation. The work was also supported in part by the US National Institutes of Health, grant AI132638, to M.K.M., which NIH RePORTER lists as Prof. Mansour's grant at Massachusetts General Hospital; the grant is printed in the paper's manuscript rather than in the published acknowledgments.
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Source: C-POLAR — Validation, https://cpolar.tech/validation/; Gong, Or, Sze et al., Microbiology Spectrum 12(9), e0409723, American Society for Microbiology, https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/spectrum.04097-23; NIH RePORTER, project R01AI132638, read 20 September 2026; C-POLAR — Terms of Use, https://cpolar.tech/terms/.
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- C-POLAR — Validation
- Gong, Or, Sze et al., Microbiology Spectrum 12(9), e0409723, American Society for Microbiology
- C-POLAR — Terms of Use
- NIH RePORTER, project R01AI132638, read 20 September 2026