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July 2016 Innovation Gateway Highlights

Innovation Gateway and Kerafast entered into a new license agreement involving 20 monoclonal antibodies for use as plant science research tools. To date, nearly 400 UGA research tools have been licensed to partners with global distribution capabilities.

  • Innovation Gateway and Kerafast entered into a new license agreement involving 20 monoclonal antibodies for use as plant science research tools. To date, nearly 400 UGA research tools have been licensed to partners with global distribution capabilities.
  • Innovation Gateway staff gave a short presentation to UGA’s department of microbiology highlighting its services.
  • Innovation Gateway executed multiple non-exclusive license agreements for peanut varieties developed by Bill Branch, department of crop and soil sciences.
  • Innovation Gateway staff members attended the annual Molecular Parasitology/Vector Biology Symposium hosted by the Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases.
  • Innovation Gateway staff attended the 2016 BIO International Convention held in San Francisco, representing the University of Georgia in the Georgia Pavilion. Staff met with over a dozen biotech and pharma companies.
  • An Innovation Gateway staff member attended the annual retreat hosted by the Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics, and Genomics.
  • UGA startup PhytoSynthetix was selected to present at the 2016 Ag Innovation Showcase.
  • Viamune, a UGA startup company located in Innovation Gateway’s incubator, was one of six GRA Ventures companies featured in the second annual GRA Venture Fund showcase.
  • Innovation Gateway helped sponsor the inaugural Academy of Crop Production hosted by UGA Extension and the Georgia Green Industry Association.
  • In honor of the UGA Plant Center’s 30th anniversary, Innovation Gateway staff attended the Joe L. Key Symposium, a two-day symposium honoring Joe Key, a former UGA vice president for research who was instrumental in establishing the Plant Center.
  • Innovation Gateway executed a non-exclusive license agreement to a company for ‘Suziblue’ blueberry cultivar, developed by Scott NeSmith, department of horticulture.
  • Jenna Jambeck, associate professor, College of Engineering and co-founder of UGA startup WeRecycle LLC, testified before Congress about water pollution and recycling efforts.
  • A UGA delegation, including an Innovation Gateway team member, visited five research institutions in Brazil to highlight UGA’s research capabilities in order to facilitate greater collaboration between Brazilian institutions and UGA. During the visit, an MOU between UGA and funding agency FAPEMIG was approved to provide seed funding for collaborative programs.
  • Innovation Gateway staff and Zenglu Li, department of crop and soil sciences, presented on UGA’s plant cultivar licensing program at a high oleic soybean research partnership meeting at the University of Missouri.
  • Innovation Gateway provided funding through the Cultivar Development Research Program (CDRP) to Clinton Steketee and Benjamin Stewart-Brown, graduate students in the Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics and Genomics. Their research projects are aimed at improving plant breeding efficiencies.
  • Innovation Gateway staff and Ali Missaoui, department of crop and soil sciences, met with an Argentinian company, as well as a New Zealand-based company, to discuss research and licensing opportunities.