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May 2015 Innovation Gateway Highlights

  • Exclusive license was completed with UGA startup WeRecycle for technology developed by Jenna Jambeck, Kyle Johnson, Eliana Mozo Reyes and Colby Sweet, all of the College of Engineering.
  • Partikula, a UGA startup company formed around the research of Shanta Dhar, department of chemistry, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, announced its $5 million Series A funding.
  • The Innovation Gateway sponsored a presentation by a supervisory patent examiner in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Chemical and Material Arts Technology Center to the College of Engineering.
  • The Georgia-13M peanut variety developed by William D. Branch, department of crop and soil sciences, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, was licensed to multiple companies.
  • One of the Innovation Gateway members participated in the First Year Odyssey Seminar hosted by John Mativo from the department of career and information studies, College of Education.
  • The Innovation Gateway incubator hosted an open house during Thinc. Week providing tours of tenant startup companies.
  • UGARF and a U.S.-India company entered into a license agreement pertaining to a technology developed by James Stringham, department of psychology, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, that uses lutein, a naturally occurring carotenoid, for improvement of mental health.
  • A wheat variety developed by Jerry Johnson, department of crop and soil sciences, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, was licensed.
  • A collaborative development agreement was established between Kyle Johnsen, College of Engineering, and UGA startup Cogent Education for the creation of educational software.
  • Multiple blueberry varieties developed by Scott NeSmith, department of horticulture, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, were optioned or licensed to multiple companies in the U.S.