The third of four events in Innovation Gateway’s annual Technology Transfer Educational Series featured Ian Biggs, who discussed startup programs and resources at UGA. Please join us April 11 at Ciné for our fourth and final event in the series, which will feature a panel of UGA researchers and entrepreneurs sharing their licensing and startup success stories and experiences.

Patrick Conner, professor of horticulture at the UGA Tifton campus, oversees the university’s pecan and muscadine grape breeding programs.

The Innovation Gateway licensing team is moving to Tucker Hall the week of March 4, 2019.

A leader in the development of exosomes for the treatment of the central nervous system and neurodegenerative disorders, UGA startup Aruna Bio appointed Mark Sirgo as chief executive officer.

Stephen Dalton, professor and GRA Eminent Scholar of Molecular Cell Biology and director of the Center for Molecular Medicine at UGA, researches pluripotent stem cells and tissue regeneration and development.

Innovation Gateway executed an exclusive worldwide license agreement with Very Good Puzzle for microscopy images produced by the following: Stefan Eberhard, Complex Carbohydrate Research Center; Erico Formo, Georgia Electron Microsopy; Muthugapatti Kandasamy, Biomedical Microscopy Core; and Darrah Johnson-McDaniel, UGA chemistry. The Athens-based company will produce puzzles based on these images from UGA’s research program.

ECO Animal Health, a drug-development company based in London, has signed a deal for just over $1 million to license research-related innovations from the lab of Naola Ferguson-Noel, associate professor in the College of Veterinary Medicine and a researcher in the Poultry Diagnostic & Research Center. 

The first of four events in Innovation Gateway’s annual Technology Transfer Educational Series, Bridging the Gap Between Academia and Industry, kicked off last month. The second event will be held Nov. 7 from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. in Pharmacy South room 201.

Kelley Moremen, Distinguished Research Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, is a member of the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center (CCRC) at UGA.

In an ongoing effort to provide excellent customer service to the UGA researchers, Innovation Gateway recently negotiated a Master Biological Reception Agreement with Addgene, Inc.

Andrew Grier is our new Contract Specialist and will help address the increased number of material transfer agreement and non-disclosure agreement requests stemming from UGA’s research enterprise.

UGA startup company Lectenz® Bio was awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Fast-Track grant from NIH to develop further its affinity reagents and tools for glycoscience, the field studying complex carbohydrates. 

Blueberry cultivars have been developed at UGA since the 1940s

The University of Georgia is proud to partner with the 13 other Southeastern Conference (SEC) universities to launch the Southeast Executives-on-Roster (XOR) platform, a collaboration to broaden access to experienced entrepreneurial talent and to match that talent to university-affiliated startups needing executive management.

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At the annual conference of the Association of Leadership Educators held July 8-11 in Chicago, faculty from the J.W. Fanning Institute for Leadership Development and the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication presented an innovative practice paper on Q-Perspectives®, a proprietary tool licensed by Innovation Gateway for teaching key leadership theories.

Kevin McCully, professor of kinesiology and director of the Exercise Muscle Physiology Laboratory at the University of Georgia, received his Ph.D. in Physiology from the University of Michigan in 1985 and has spent more than 20 years exploring non-invasive approaches to understanding skeletal muscle metabolism, blood flow and oxygen utilization.

Would you like to generate additional income for your lab or research program while also enhancing the visibility of your publications?

Holly Sellers is a UGA alumnae who received both her Master’s and Ph.D. in Medical Microbiology from the College of Veterinary Medicine. She is currently a professor in the Department of Pathology at UGA where she studies clinical and molecular virology … Continued

13 UGA I-Corps Accelerator teams from the May 2018 cohort presented on their work in transitioning their innovations into the marketplace

Do you have any materials in your labs that fit the bill? Would you like to generate additional income for your lab or research program while also enhancing the visibility of your publications?

MuniRem Environmental, LLC is delighted to announce that Explosive Manufacturing Industries (1997) Ltd (EMI) has signed an agreement to be the exclusive distributor of MuniRem Reagents in the State of Israel.

Innovation Gateway and the State Botanical Garden of Georgia, a unit of the UGA Office of the Vice President for Public Service and Outreach, entered into a copyright and trademark license for the “Connect to Protect Coloring Book,” an educational tool aimed at teaching young children about plants and pollinators.

Marc van Iersel, Dooley Professor of Horticulture within the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, received his Ph.D. in Agronomy from the University of Arkansas and joined the UGA horticulture department in 1995.

“As an inventor, you should have no secrets,” according to Wayne Hanna, inventor of numerous citrus and grass cultivars including TifTuf® bermudagrass.

More than 55 UGA innovators were recognized at the ninth annual Innovator’s Luncheon, a celebratory event held by Innovation Gateway each spring to commemorate the researchers participating in UGA’s mission to move new discoveries into the marketplace.

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.

Darrell Sparks, professor in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, is widely known as “Mr. Pecan” for his research in the physiology, management and development of new cultivars that contributed in large part to making Georgia No. 1 in pecan … Continued

The University of Georgia’s Vice President for Public Service and Outreach, Dr. Jennifer Frum, and Vice President for Research, Dr. David Lee, are seeking a more active role in the University Economic Development Association (UEDA) Awards of Excellence by their respective units. Playing a more active role in UEDA includes increasing UGA’s submissions to UEDA’s annual “Awards of Excellence” program, which recognizes outstanding, leading-edge, higher education projects and initiatives promoting economic development and engagement.

It starts with an idea. Jesse Lafian’s idea promotes more efficient soil irrigation. Caleb Adams and Graham Grable’s idea translates high-performance computation into everyday uses. And UGA’s Entrepreneurship Program helped these ideas go from hasty math—on a napkin in Adams’ case—to viable prototypes.