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By CHRISTINE VIDAL
Contributing Editor
The university and its Office of Science, Technology Transfer and
Economic Outreach (STOR) recognized the research and commercialization
achievements of faculty members at the annual Inventors and
Entrepreneurs Reception held on Monday. The reception honored
faculty members in the categories of U.S. Patents, Visionary Innovators,
Entrepreneurial Spirit and Incubator Awards. In addition, a Lifetime
Achievement Award was presented to Robert J. Genco, SUNY Distinguished Professor, vice provost and director of STOR, in recognition of
his service to students in and out of the classroom and his
extraordinary achievement and leadership in his field. Incubator
Awards honored a company that joined the UB Technology Incubator program
in 2007 and a company that graduated from the program last year. The new
company is Sprung-brett RDI Inc., a mechatronics and advance systems
company currently developing a new class of actuator for aerospace
application, motion control and traction applications. The graduate is
Teeter Marketing Services LLC, which provides highly responsive,
integrated technical and marketing services for companies in the field
of high performance materials. Entrepreneurial Spirit awards,
recognizing UB faculty and staff members who founded a start-up company
based on UB technology during 2007, were presented to Frank V. Bright,
Department of Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences, and Jerome
Schentag, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy and
Pharmaceutical Sciences, for the creation of TheraSyn Sensors Inc., and
Donald Jacobs, Center for Applied Technologies in Education, Graduate
School of Education, for 3rdL Corporation. The following faculty
members were recognized for being named on U.S. patents during 2007:
Chunming Qiao, Department of Computer
Science and Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and
Vishal Anand, Yizhi Xiong and Xiaojun Cao, all formerly of the
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, patent 7,162,632,
Efficient Optical Network Design Using Multi-Granular Optical
Cross-Connects with Wavelength Band Switching.
Paras N. Prasad, Department of Chemistry, and David J. McRae, Derrick W.
Lucey and Orville T. Beachley, all formerly of the Department of
Chemistry, patent 7,193,098, Process for Producing Semiconductor
Nanocrystal Cores, Core-Shell, Core-Buffer-Shell and Multiple Layer
Systems in a Non-Coordinating Solvent Utilizing In-situ Surfactant
Generation. Michael R. Detty and Frank V. Bright of
the Department of Chemistry, and Michael D. Drake and Ying Tang,
formerly of the Department of Chemistry, patent 7,244,295, Hybrid
Anti-Fouling Coating Compositions and Methods for Preventing the Fouling
of Surfaces Subjected to a Marine Environment. Eli
Ruckenstein, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, School
of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Yun Hang Hu, formerly of the
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, patent 7,250,146,
Method for Producing a Reversible Hydrogen Storage Medium with High
Storage Capacity and Ultrafast Kinetics. Oleh
Pankewycz, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine and Biomedical
Sciences, patent 7,253,148, Novel Human Gene with Immunoregulatory and
Antiproliferative Properties. Frederick Sachs,
Thomas Suchyna and Phillip Gottlieb of the Department of Physiology and
Biophysics, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, patent
7,259,145, Mechanically Activated Channel Blocker.
Libuse A. Bobek, Department of Oral Biology, School of Dental Medicine,
patent 7,271,239, D-Isomers of Antimicrobial Peptide. Thomas Guttuso, Department of Neurology, School of Medicine
and Biomedical Sciences, patent 7,288,525, Method of Lowering Serum
Homocysteine. Brydon J.B. Grant, formerly from the
Department of Medicine, and Jacek Dmochowski, formerly from the
Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, School of Medicine and
Biomedical Sciences, patent 7,309,314, Prediction of AHI from Overnight
Pulse Oximetry. The following faculty members were
recognized as Visionary Innovators for developing technologies that were
licensed to outside companies during 2007:
Huw M.L. Davies, Department of Chemistry; James Manning,
Department of Chemistry; and Ravisekhara Reddy, Xing Dai, Abbas Walji,
Tadamichi Nagashima and Timothy Gregg, all formerly of the Department of
Chemistry, Rhodium-based Catalysts and Methods for Making and Using Same
to Dirhodium Technologies. Rhodium-based Catalysts and Methods for
Making and Using Same also was licensed to Strem Chemicals Inc. Huw M.L. Davies, Department of Chemistry, and Ravisekhara
Reddy, formerly of the Department of Chemistry, New Chiral Catalysts for
Use in Enantioselective Synthesis to Strem Chemicals Inc. Edward G. Niles, Department of Microbiology and Immunology,
School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Plasmid Encoding an
Expressible Gene for Vaccinia 2'-O-Methyltransferase to Epicentre
Technologies Corp. James Leahy, Jonathan Leahy and
James L. Peron, Center for Assistive Technology, School of Public Health
and Health Professions, and Robyn Washousky, formerly of the Center for
Assistive Technology, Automated Pill Crusher to Pill Crusher
Ventures. Sargur N. Srihari, Chen Huang, Gregory
Ball and Harish Srinivasan, all of the Center of Excellence for Document
Analysis and Recognition (CEDAR), CEDARABIC Transcript Mapping Tool to
CedarTech. Rossman Giese, Department of Geology,
College of Arts and Sciences; Paul Kostyniak and Joseph Syracuse,
Department of Biotechnical and Clinical Laboratory Sciences, School of
Medicine and Biomedical Sciences; and Patricia A. Costanzo, formerly of
the Department of Geology, Antimicrobial Compositions to BioClay
Corporation. Donald J. Jacobs, Center for Applied
Technologies in Education, and Paulette J. Freyer, formerly of Center
for Applied Technologies in Education, NYLearns and Web-based Tools for
Teachers to 3rdL Corporation. Vipin Chaudhary,
Mohammed Alam, Christopher Gammage, Suryaprakash Kompalli and Mohammed
Yaqub, all of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, A
Versatile 3-D Image Viewer for Diagnosis and Interventions to Medcotek
Inc. Frank V. Bright and Joseph Gardella,
Department of Chemistry; Alexander N. Cartwright and Albert H. Titus,
Department of Electrical Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied
Sciences; Robert Hard, Department of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences,
School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences; Wesley Hicks Jr., Department
of Otolaryngology, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences; Venugopal
Govindaraju, Department of Computer Science and Engineering; Jeffrey D.
Jordan, A. Neal Watkins, Brett R. Wenner, Eun Jeong Cho, William G.
Holthoff, Elizabeth C. Cornell, Gary A. Baker and Meagan A. Hughes,
formerly of the Department of Chemistry, Sensor Array Platforms to
Senz-It Inc. Sensor Array Platforms also was licensed to TheraSyn
Sensors Inc. Robert M. Straubinger and Sathy
Balu-Iyer, both of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Eric
Mayhew and Amarnath Sharma, both formerly of the Department of
Pharmaceutical Sciences, Liposomal Taxane Formulations to Tempo
Pharmaceuticals Inc. Tarunraj Singh, Department of
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied
Sciences, Jerk Limited Time Delay Filter to Gilead Science
Institute. Chunming Qiao, Department of Computer
Science and Engineering, and Dahai Xu, Yizhi Xiong, Xiaojun Cao and
Vishal Anand, all formerly of the Department of Computer Science and
Engineering, Optical Networks and Survivable Networks to Gilead Science
Institute. Jonathon Hull and Tao Hong, both
formerly of CEDAR, OCR Method and Apparatus Using Image Equivalents to
Gilead Science Institute. Hiroaki Suga, Neil
Bonzagni, Dimitrios Kourouklis, Nick Lee, Hiroshi Murakami and Hirohide
Saito, all formerly of the Department of Chemistry, Aminoacylation of
Transfer RNA by Ribozymes to Peptidream Inc. A.
Joshua Wand, formerly from the Department Chemistry; Jeffrey L. Urbauer,
fomerly from the Department of Biochemistry; and Mark R. Ehrhardt,
formerly from Department of Chemistry, High Resolution NMR Spectroscopy
to Daedalus Innovations LLC.
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