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...
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...
Academic Entrepreneur of the Year 2011 Ralph Tripp, professor and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar, founded Argent Diagnostics, a company that develops diagnostic products and services based on Surface-enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS), a proprietary nanotechnology platform. The platform facilitates the direct, rapid detection of pathogens and...
Academic Entrepreneur of the Year 2010 Ron Orlando, professor of biochemistry, molecular biology, and chemistry, Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, founded chemistry, Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, founded BioInquire, LLC, a bioinformatics software development company, along with cofounders Rick Tarleton, James Atwood, and Brent Weatherly. Established in 2007,...