Community members toured the incubator and learned about the role of Innovation Gateway during a LEAD Athens health and life sciences session hosted by Innovation Gateway.
UGA startup BiotecEra received notice of two STTR Phase I awards from the NSF Division of Industrial Innovation & Partnerships for a total of $275,000.
UGA venture CyanVac was awarded a Georgia Research Alliance Phase IB award for over $41,000 to develop a vaccine for the prevention of circavirus in swine.
Innovation Gateway signed an exclusive license agreement for the commercialization of Clevudine, a treatment for Hepatitis B, in China.
BiotecEra and Innovation Gateway entered into a license agreement for the manufacture and sale of 5-Hydroxytryptophan, a chemical and nutritional supplement that treats a variety of conditions related to low serotonin levels.
Innovation Gateway hosted an executive from Star Roses and Plants to campus and to the UGA Horticulture Farm to meet with UGA ornamental plant breeders John Ruter and Donglin Zhang, along with emeritus professor Michael Dirr.
Innovation Gateway completed a license for technology invented by Ralph Tripp, department of infectious disease, intended to enable more efficient vaccine production.
Innovation Gateway and UGA faculty members met with an animal health company to discuss canine gene therapeutics.
Sixty-three new research materials were non-exclusively licensed to Kerafast from the labs of Stanley Kleven, department of population health, Richard Hussey (ret.) and John Sherwood, department of plant pathology, Branson Ritchie, department of small animal medicine, Ruth Davis, department of biochemistry and molecular biology and Monoclonal Antibody Facility, Royal McGraw (ret.), department of physiology and pharmacology, and Donald Harn and Roberto DoCampo from The Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases. To date, 320 unique research materials originating from UGA have been licensed to Kerafast.
Innovation Gateway Director Derek Eberhart presented to the Georgia Department of Economic Development’s Board of Directors about moving university technology and research to the marketplace.
Innovation Gateway completed a license agreement with Whiff, LLC pertaining to several micro- and nanofiber spinning technologies developed in the lab of Sergiy Minko, department of textiles, merchandising and interiors.
Innovation Gateway Director Derek Eberhart presented to the University System of Georgia Board of Regents Subcommittee on Economic Development about how UGA research and Innovation Gateway are fueling the innovation economy.
Innovation Gateway met with researchers from UGA’s Tifton Campus to discuss technology transfer and startup company opportunities. Researchers Glen Rains, Tim Brenneman, Peng Chee, Wayne Hanna, Patrick Conner, Joe West, and Sha Tao – all in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences – joined Gateway staff at the luncheon.
