Research Awards | Entrepreneur of the Year

Puliyur MohanKumar

Posted on Apr 6, 2023 in Entrepreneur of the Year

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Kevin McCully

Posted on Apr 11, 2022 in Entrepreneur of the Year

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Yajun Yan

Posted on Apr 2, 2018 in Entrepreneur of the Year

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Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2018 Yajun Yan, associate professor in the College of Engineering, leads UGA’s research in microbial production of biofuels and high-value chemicals. His work has led to six issued U.S. patents and several pending patent applications. In 2014, he and his colleague,...

Biao He

Posted on Apr 14, 2017 in Entrepreneur of the Year, Inventor of the Year Award

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Valentine Nzengung

Posted on Mar 22, 2016 in Entrepreneur of the Year

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Academic Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2016 Valentine Nzengung, professor of environmental geochemistry and founder of MuniRem Environmental, LLC has been working for over 15 years to move innovative environmental remediation technologies from the academic laboratory to the field. His research interests include the development and...

Richard B. Meagher

Posted on Feb 23, 2016 in Distinguished Research Professor, Entrepreneur of the Year, Inventor of the Year Award, Lamar Dodd Award

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Entrepreneur of the Year Award Richard Meagher, Distinguished Research Professor of Genetics, is a plant molecular geneticist whose research has sparked worldwide interest and media attention. Widely noted for his creativity, innovation and perseverance, Meagher was the first scientist to engineer plants to take up toxins...

Steven Stice

Posted on Feb 18, 2016 in Entrepreneur of the Year, Inventor of the Year Award

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Academic Entrepreneur of the Year 2015 Steven Stice, D.W. Brooks Distinguished Professor, Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar, and Director of the Regenerative Bioscience Center, has led industry and academic research teams in the area of pluripotent stem cells for over 20 years. Prior to joining the...

Robert Woods

Posted on Feb 18, 2016 in Entrepreneur of the Year

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Academic Entrepreneur of the Year 2014 Robert Woods, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, and chemistry, and researcher in the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, is a leading expert in the fields of glycomics and computational chemistry. He has worked as consultant for numerous companies interested in...

Lionel Carreira

Posted on Feb 18, 2016 in Entrepreneur of the Year

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Academic Entrepreneur of the Year 2013 Lionel Carreira, professor emeritus of chemistry, is recognized for his successes as a spirited entrepreneur and for his longstanding commitment to education and research. He is the founder and chief executive officer of ARChem, an Athens-based company that provides a...

Tom Robertson

Posted on Feb 18, 2016 in Entrepreneur of the Year

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Academic Entrepreneur of the Year 2012 Tom Robertson, associate professor of physiology and pharmacology, is CEO and co-founder of IS3D LLC, which creates revolutionary educational software that shows great promise as a more effective teaching tool in science education. Robertson and his partners began by developing...