Innovation Gateway executed the following agreements: Multiple license agreements for peanut varieties developed by Bill Branch, UGA crop and soil sciences.

Carol Robacker, associate professor of horticulture on the UGA Griffin campus, breeds heat- and drought-tolerant ornamental landscape plants that can thrive in urban conditions.

Innovation Gateway is hiring an assistant director of the Startup Program to support and develop the expanding pipeline of startup projects at UGA.

More than 400 unique and beautiful images emerging from university research are now available for public benefit!

Donald Harn, professor of infectious diseases and Georgia Research Alliance Distinguished Investigator, studies inflammation-based diseases as well as developing new vaccines and reagents.

The Office of Research is now accepting applications for the university’s new Innovation Fellows Program. This program is designed to support faculty who want to engage in commercialization and product development, with an eye toward fine-tuning their research programs to align with industry and market needs.

Innovation Gateway staff members sponsored and attended the 73rd annual Southeastern Turfgrass Conference on April 25 in Tifton.

ArunA Bio, an UGA startup revolutionizing neurotherapeutic development, appointed Al Medwar as Executive Vice President, Corporate and Commercial Development.

Xiaozhong “John” Yu, associate professor in the College of Public Health, received his Ph.D. in occupational and environmental toxicology from Nagoya University in Japan.

At the 10th annual Innovators’ Luncheon, held March 6 at the Georgia Center, Innovation Gateway recognized the enterprising UGA researchers who are moving their technologies and discoveries into the marketplace.

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.

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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