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June 2015 Innovation Gateway Highlights
- Multiple peanut varieties developed by William D. Branch, department of crop and soil sciences, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, were non-exclusively licensed to multiple companies.
- The Krewer blueberry variety developed by Scott NeSmith, department of horticulture, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, was non-exclusively licensed.
- Heidi Riviere Kelley, a supervisory patent examiner at the U.S. Patent Office handling patent applications in the Chemical and Material Arts, spoke with faculty, staff, and students from the College of Engineering.
- Representatives from the Klarquist Sparkman law firm led patent strategy discussions in the department of infectious disease and College of Engineering.
- Testing agreements for multiple varieties of turfgrass developed by Brian Schwartz, Paul Raymer and Wayne Hanna, department of crop and soil sciences, were completed for the U.S., Spain and Japan.
- Gateway team members attended the Sixth Annual Academic & Industry Intersection Conference at Morehouse School of Medicine featuring public-private partnerships, startup creation and technology commercialization. Dr. Jonathan Murrow, professor of medicine, GRU/UGA Medical Partnership, and co-founder of Infrared Rx participated in the startup Shark Tank session. Infrared Rx is developing technology to benefit patients with peripheral artery disease.
- Roundup Ready 2 Yield soybean variety developed in part by Zenglu Li, department of crop and soil sciences, was exclusively licensed.
- Vaccines for influenza and mumps, developed by Biao He, department of infectious diseases, were licensed to an international start-up company.
- Innovation Gateway staff participated in an AUTM continuing education workshop, “Communicating value to stakeholders.”
- A wheat variety developed by Jerry Johnson, department of crop and soil sciences, was exclusively licensed.