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April 2018 Innovation Gateway Highlights

The Office of Research Industry Engagement team, led by Innovation Gateway, launched the Industry Express program to streamline the processes for companies licensing and sponsoring research at UGA.

  • The Office of Research Industry Engagement team, led by Innovation Gateway, launched the Industry Express program to streamline the processes for companies licensing and sponsoring research at UGA.
  • UGA and Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health co-hosted the first-ever Georgia Animal Health Hackathon to explore new ideas and technologies for improving the care of pets and livestock.
  • Innovation Gateway executed multiple testing and option agreements for various experimental plant selections including pecan trees, developed by Patrick Conner, department of horticulture; and ornamental plants, developed by John Ruter, Donglin Zhang and Matthew Dirr, department of horticulture.
  • Innovation Gateway and UGA startup Lectenz® Bio are excited to announce the issuance of their jointly owned U.S. Patent 9,926,612 for the Lectenz® platform technology, which will pave the way for more R&D for both Lectenz® and GlycoSense™ products.
  • Innovation Gateway and Ximbio, a division of Cancer Research Technologies, Ltd (UK)., entered into a non-exclusive license agreement for the production and worldwide sales of Anti- C. elegans Cyclin E (CYE-1) monoclonal antibodies developed by Edward T. Kipreos, department of cellular biology.
  • Reservoir, a UGA startup company engineering wireless irrigation technologies, closed a round of private seed funding with Macon, Ga.-based Central Piedmont Investment Group.
  • The National Institutes of Health awarded a $10 million grant to UGA and George Washington University to build a glycoscience informatics portal that will advance basic and translational glycobiology research.
  • Innovation Gateway hosted a delegation of visiting research scholars from South Korea who learned about entrepreneurship and innovation at UGA.
  • UGA startup ArunA Biomedical became the first company to demonstrate proof-of-concept of the therapeutic potential of extracellular vesicles in two divergent animal species and two stroke types.
  • UGA plant science faculty hosted a representative from Monsanto who met with an Innovation Gateway staff member.
  • Innovation Gateway student worker Grant Dawson was selected as one of the top UGA Student Employees of the Year.
  • For Entrepreneurs! Emory’s Office of Technology Transfer, along with the Georgia Clinical & Translational Science Alliance, are offering the Kauffman FastTrac TechVenture entrepreneur training course.
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