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May 2016 Innovation Gateway Highlights

Mark Jackwood, recipient of the Inventor of the Year Award, and Valentine Nzengung, recipient of the Academic Entrepreneur of the Year Award, were each recognized at the 37th Annual Research Awards Banquet sponsored by the University of Georgia Research Foundation.

  • Mark Jackwood, recipient of the Inventor of the Year Award, and Valentine Nzengung, recipient of the Academic Entrepreneur of the Year Award, were each recognized at the 37th Annual Research Awards Banquet sponsored by the University of Georgia Research Foundation.
  • UGA faculty or staff interested in starting a company are encouraged to apply to the Kauffman FastTrac® TechVenture™ entrepreneur training course that begins June 30. This six-day course, held over seven weeks, trains faculty entrepreneurs who plan to create a start-up company to commercialize their inventions.
  • Innovation Gateway licensed a turfgrass cultivar to a company located in Spain.
  • UGA’s Department of Animal and Dairy Science invited Innovation Gateway to discuss the services it provides to investigators and researchers.
  • The April Innovation Gateway Lunch and Learn featured Frank McDaniel, founding partner of McDaniel Law Group, PC, who discussed corporate entities and the consequences of different incorporation choices.
  • Innovation Gateway, Georgia Bio, and the Athens-Clarke County Department of Economic Development hosted a panel discussion, “Cloning Technologies to Regenerative Medicine: Science Fiction to Reality,” which explored the history of cloning technology and the possibilities of regenerative medicine.
  • Two testing agreements for turfgrass material developed by Paul Raymer, department of crop and soil sciences, were completed.
  • Valentine Nzengung, CEO and CTO of MuniRem Environmental, discussed his company’s remediation technology at the monthly Innovation Gateway Startup Stories seminar series. Nzengung was also recently featured in the Spring 2016 UGA Research Magazine highlighting his “(non) explosive success.”
  • UGA horticulture innovators John Ruter and Donglin Zhang participated in a meeting with Innovation Gateway staff and representatives from ornamental plant nurseries regarding the licensing of new plant cultivars.
  • Innovation Gateway, along with Peggy Ozias-Akins, Joann Conner, and Maricel Podio, department of horticulture, attended the second annual project meeting of Capturing Heterosis, an agricultural humanitarian research collaboration funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
  • The Association of University Technology Managers Communication Technologies Partnering Forum was held in Atlanta, where Innovation Gateway staff participated in a panel discussing best practices in industry/university collaborations.
  • UGA graduate students enrolled in a plant breeding course heard about Innovation Gateway processes, IP protection, and plant licensing.
  • Brian Schwartz, department of crop and soil sciences, organized and led the 70th Annual Southeastern Turfgrass Conference in Tifton, where the Innovation Gateway and the UGA Tifton Turfgrass Breeding Program awarded Patten Seed Company/Super-Sod with the “Friend of UGA Research” award for their long-standing contributions.