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Inventors, entrepreneurs recognized
STOR reception honors faculty research and commercialization
By CHRISTINE VIDAL
Contributing Editor
The university and its Office of Science, Technology Transfer and Economic Outreach (STOR) recognized the research and commercialization achievements of faculty members at the annual Inventors and Entrepreneurs Reception held on Monday.
The reception honored faculty members in the categories of U.S. Patents, Visionary Innovators, Entrepreneurial Spirit and Incubator Awards. In addition, a Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to Robert J. Genco, SUNY Distinguished Professor, vice provost and director of STOR, in recognition of his service to students in and out of the classroom and his extraordinary achievement and leadership in his field.
Incubator Awards honored a company that joined the UB Technology Incubator program in 2007 and a company that graduated from the program last year. The new company is Sprung-brett RDI Inc., a mechatronics and advance systems company currently developing a new class of actuator for aerospace application, motion control and traction applications. The graduate is Teeter Marketing Services LLC, which provides highly responsive, integrated technical and marketing services for companies in the field of high performance materials.
Entrepreneurial Spirit awards, recognizing UB faculty and staff members who founded a start-up company based on UB technology during 2007, were presented to Frank V. Bright, Department of Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences, and Jerome Schentag, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, for the creation of TheraSyn Sensors Inc., and Donald Jacobs, Center for Applied Technologies in Education, Graduate School of Education, for 3rdL Corporation.
The following faculty members were recognized for being named on U.S. patents during 2007:
Chunming Qiao, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Vishal Anand, Yizhi Xiong and Xiaojun Cao, all formerly of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, patent 7,162,632, Efficient Optical Network Design Using Multi-Granular Optical Cross-Connects with Wavelength Band Switching.
Paras N. Prasad, Department of Chemistry, and David J. McRae, Derrick W. Lucey and Orville T. Beachley, all formerly of the Department of Chemistry, patent 7,193,098, Process for Producing Semiconductor Nanocrystal Cores, Core-Shell, Core-Buffer-Shell and Multiple Layer Systems in a Non-Coordinating Solvent Utilizing In-situ Surfactant Generation.
Michael R. Detty and Frank V. Bright of the Department of Chemistry, and Michael D. Drake and Ying Tang, formerly of the Department of Chemistry, patent 7,244,295, Hybrid Anti-Fouling Coating Compositions and Methods for Preventing the Fouling of Surfaces Subjected to a Marine Environment.
Eli Ruckenstein, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Yun Hang Hu, formerly of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, patent 7,250,146, Method for Producing a Reversible Hydrogen Storage Medium with High Storage Capacity and Ultrafast Kinetics.
Oleh Pankewycz, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, patent 7,253,148, Novel Human Gene with Immunoregulatory and Antiproliferative Properties.
Frederick Sachs, Thomas Suchyna and Phillip Gottlieb of the Department of Physiology and Biophysics, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, patent 7,259,145, Mechanically Activated Channel Blocker.
Libuse A. Bobek, Department of Oral Biology, School of Dental Medicine, patent 7,271,239, D-Isomers of Antimicrobial Peptide.
Thomas Guttuso, Department of Neurology, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, patent 7,288,525, Method of Lowering Serum Homocysteine.
Brydon J.B. Grant, formerly from the Department of Medicine, and Jacek Dmochowski, formerly from the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, patent 7,309,314, Prediction of AHI from Overnight Pulse Oximetry.
The following faculty members were recognized as Visionary Innovators for developing technologies that were licensed to outside companies during 2007:
Huw M.L. Davies, Department of Chemistry; James Manning, Department of Chemistry; and Ravisekhara Reddy, Xing Dai, Abbas Walji, Tadamichi Nagashima and Timothy Gregg, all formerly of the Department of Chemistry, Rhodium-based Catalysts and Methods for Making and Using Same to Dirhodium Technologies. Rhodium-based Catalysts and Methods for Making and Using Same also was licensed to Strem Chemicals Inc.
Huw M.L. Davies, Department of Chemistry, and Ravisekhara Reddy, formerly of the Department of Chemistry, New Chiral Catalysts for Use in Enantioselective Synthesis to Strem Chemicals Inc.
Edward G. Niles, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Plasmid Encoding an Expressible Gene for Vaccinia 2'-O-Methyltransferase to Epicentre Technologies Corp.
James Leahy, Jonathan Leahy and James L. Peron, Center for Assistive Technology, School of Public Health and Health Professions, and Robyn Washousky, formerly of the Center for Assistive Technology, Automated Pill Crusher to Pill Crusher Ventures.
Sargur N. Srihari, Chen Huang, Gregory Ball and Harish Srinivasan, all of the Center of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition (CEDAR), CEDARABIC Transcript Mapping Tool to CedarTech.
Rossman Giese, Department of Geology, College of Arts and Sciences; Paul Kostyniak and Joseph Syracuse, Department of Biotechnical and Clinical Laboratory Sciences, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences; and Patricia A. Costanzo, formerly of the Department of Geology, Antimicrobial Compositions to BioClay Corporation.
Donald J. Jacobs, Center for Applied Technologies in Education, and Paulette J. Freyer, formerly of Center for Applied Technologies in Education, NYLearns and Web-based Tools for Teachers to 3rdL Corporation.
Vipin Chaudhary, Mohammed Alam, Christopher Gammage, Suryaprakash Kompalli and Mohammed Yaqub, all of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, A Versatile 3-D Image Viewer for Diagnosis and Interventions to Medcotek Inc.
Frank V. Bright and Joseph Gardella, Department of Chemistry; Alexander N. Cartwright and Albert H. Titus, Department of Electrical Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; Robert Hard, Department of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences; Wesley Hicks Jr., Department of Otolaryngology, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences; Venugopal Govindaraju, Department of Computer Science and Engineering; Jeffrey D. Jordan, A. Neal Watkins, Brett R. Wenner, Eun Jeong Cho, William G. Holthoff, Elizabeth C. Cornell, Gary A. Baker and Meagan A. Hughes, formerly of the Department of Chemistry, Sensor Array Platforms to Senz-It Inc. Sensor Array Platforms also was licensed to TheraSyn Sensors Inc.
Robert M. Straubinger and Sathy Balu-Iyer, both of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Eric Mayhew and Amarnath Sharma, both formerly of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Liposomal Taxane Formulations to Tempo Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Tarunraj Singh, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Jerk Limited Time Delay Filter to Gilead Science Institute.
Chunming Qiao, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and Dahai Xu, Yizhi Xiong, Xiaojun Cao and Vishal Anand, all formerly of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Optical Networks and Survivable Networks to Gilead Science Institute.
Jonathon Hull and Tao Hong, both formerly of CEDAR, OCR Method and Apparatus Using Image Equivalents to Gilead Science Institute.
Hiroaki Suga, Neil Bonzagni, Dimitrios Kourouklis, Nick Lee, Hiroshi Murakami and Hirohide Saito, all formerly of the Department of Chemistry, Aminoacylation of Transfer RNA by Ribozymes to Peptidream Inc.
A. Joshua Wand, formerly from the Department Chemistry; Jeffrey L. Urbauer, fomerly from the Department of Biochemistry; and Mark R. Ehrhardt, formerly from Department of Chemistry, High Resolution NMR Spectroscopy to Daedalus Innovations LLC.