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UB inventors named on patents
The following UB inventors were named on patents in 2008:
• John Lordi, James Felske and Joseph Mollendorf, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and James Garvey, Chemistry, patent 7,335,333 Method of Altering a Fluid-Borne Contaminant.
• Mattheos Koffas, Chemical and Biological Engineering, and collaborators Effendi Leonard, Yajun Yan and Joseph Chemler, formerly of Chemical and Biological Engineering, patent 7,338,791 Production of Flavonoids by Recombinant Microorganisms.
• Sathy Balu-Iyer and Robert Straubinger, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and collaborators Karthik Ramani and Vivek Purohit, formerly of Pharmaceutical Sciences, patent 7,351,688 Compositions and Methods for Less Immunogenic Protein Formulations.
• Bradley P. Fuhrman and Mark S. Dowhy, Pediatrics, patent 7,367,335 Therapeutic Agent Delivery Device and Method.
• Mark Swihart, Chemical and Biological Engineering, and collaborators Yuanqing He and Xuegeng Li, formerly of Chemical and Biological Engineering, patent 7,371,666 Process for Preparing Luminescent Silicon Particles.
• Kate Rittenhouse-Olson, Biotechnical and Clinical Laboratory Sciences, patent 7,374,755 Therapeutic Use of Anti-TF-Antigen Antibody.
• Chunming Qiao, Computer Science and Engineering, and collaborators Yizhi Xiong and Dahai Xu, formerly of Computer Science and Engineering, patent 7,398,321 Segment Protection Scheme for a Network.
• Kenneth Hoffmann, Neurosurgery, and collaborator Satoru Ohishi, a non-UB inventor, patent 7,412,023 X-Ray Diagnostic Apparatus.
• Wesley L. Hicks Jr., Otolaryngology; Frank V. Bright and Joseph Gardella, Chemistry; Alexander N. Cartwright, Electrical Engineering; Robert Hard, Pathology and Anatomical Sciences; Bahattin Koc, Industrial and Systems Engineering; and Jamson S. Lwebuga-Mukasa, Medicine, and collaborator Rena Bizios, a non-UB inventor, patent 7,417,174 Resorbable Laminated Repair Film and Method of Using Same.
• Harsh Deep Chopra and Zonglu Hua, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and collaborators Matthew R. Sullivan and Jason N. Armstrong, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, patent 7,425,826 Selectively Conductive Structure Wherein a Magnetic Conductor is Sized to Have a Cross-section Diameter Similar to a Fermi Wavelength of Electrons.
• Timothy F. Murphy and Sanjay Sethi, Medicine, and collaborator Thomas Hiltke, formerly of Medicine, patent 7,429,388 Vaccine for Non-Typeable Haemophilus Influenzae Infection.
• Terry D. Connell and Michael W. Russell, Microbiology and Immunology, and collaborators Sergio Arce and Hesham Nawar, Microbiology and Immunology, patent 7,455,843 Adjuvant Activities of Mutants of LT-IIa and LT-IIb Enterotoxin Lacking Binding to Ganglioside.
• Anthony Campagnari and Nicole Luke, Microbiology and Immunology, and collaborators Amy Howlett and Katie Edwards, Microbiology and Immunology, and Kristin Furano formerly of Microbiology and Immunology, patent 7,468,256 Tools for Detecting Moraxella Catarrhalis.
• Paras N. Prasad, Chemistry, and collaborators Guang S. He, Chemistry, and Qingdong Zheng formerly of Chemistry, patent 7,449,578 Two-Photon Absorbing Materials with Quenched Emission.
• Paras N. Prasad and Aliaksandr Kachynski, Chemistry, and collaborators Andrey Kuzmin, Chemistry; and Haridas Pudavar, formerly of Chemistry, patent 7,413,341 Imaging Methods.
• Paras Prasad, Indrajit Roy, Earl J. Bergey, Tymish Y. Ohulchanskyy, Chemistry, and collaborators Haridas Pudavar, formerly of Chemistry, and Janet Morgan and Allan Oseroff, of Roswell Park Cancer Institute, patent 7,364,754 Ceramic Based Nanoparticles for Entrapping Therapeutic Agents for Photodynamic Therapy and Method of Using Same.
• Thomas A. Szyperski, Chemistry, and collaborators Hanudatta S. Atreya and Seho Kim, formerly of Chemistry, patent 7,365,539 Method of Using G-Matrix Fourier Transformation Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (GFT NMR) Spectroscopy for Rapid Chemical Shift Assignment and Secondary Structure Determination of Proteins.
• Thomas A. Szyperski, Chemistry, and collaborator: Seho Kim formerly of Chemistry, patent 7,396,685 Phase-Sensitively Detected Reduced Dimensionality Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy for Rapid Chemical Shift Assignment and Secondary Structure Determination of Proteins.
• Thomas A. Szyperski, Chemistry, and collaborator David Parish, Chemistry, patent 7,408,346 Simultaneous Phase Cycling for Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy.
• Huw M. L. Davies and Ravisekhara P. Reddy, formerly of Chemistry, patent 7,385,064 Catalysts for Use in Enantioselective Synthesis.
• Huw M. L. Davies and Timothy Gregg, formerly of Chemistry, patent 7,443,376 Tropane Prodrugs with Central Nervous System Activity.
The following “Visionary Innovators” invented technologies that were licensed to an industrial partner in 2008:
• Anthony A. Campagnari, Microbiology and Immunology, Steven Gill, Oral Biology, and Thomas Russo, Medicine, developed Microorganisms as Controls for Assay Specificity and Detection, which was licensed to ZeptoMetrix Corp.
• Ali El-Solh, Medicine, developed CPAP Titration Using Artificial Neural Network, which was licensed to Universal Diagnostics Testing LLC.
• Timothy F. Murphy, Medicine, developed Haemophilus influenzae Strain 11P6H, which was licensed to a large pharmaceutical firm.
• David Pendergast, Physiology and Biophysics, and collaborators Albert C. Termin II formerly of Athletics, and John C. Zaharkin and Michael Zaharkin formerly of Physiology and Biophysics, developed System and Method for Training a Swimmer, which was licensed to Astrum SSL Solutions Inc.
• Ingvald M. Tyssebotn and Clas E. Lundgren, Physiology and Biophysics, and collaborators Hugh VanLiew and Mark Burkard, formerly of Physiology and Biophysics, developed Method of Enhancing Transport of Gases, which was licensed to NuvOx Pharma LLC.
• Venugopal Govindaraju, Computer Science and Engineering, and collaborators Ramanaprasad Vemulapati, Srirangaraj Setlur and Zhixin Shi, CEDAR, developed FieldXtract—A Software Toolkit for Extraction and Automated Reading of Machine Printed and Handwritten Form Fields, which was licensed to KYOS Systems Inc.
• Bradley P. Fuhrman and Mark S. Dowhy, Pediatrics, developed Universal Isolator, which was licensed to Medical Conservation Devices LLC.
• Mattheos Koffas, Chemical and Biological Engineering, and collaborators Joseph Chemler, Chemical and Biological Engineering; Effendi Leonard and Yajun Yan, formerly of Chemical and Biological Engineering; and Ralph Bernacki, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, developed Production of Flavonoids by Recombinant Microorganisms, which was licensed to ChromaDex Inc.
• Aiming Yu, Pharmaceutical Sciences, developed CYP2D6 and CYP3A4 Double Transgenic Mice, which was licensed to a large pharmaceutical firm.
• Thomas A. Szyperski, Chemistry, and collaborators Alexandre Eletski, Chemistry; Seho Kim and Hanudatta S. Atreya, formerly of Chemistry, developed Reduced Dimensionality and G-Matrix Fourier Transformation Techniques for NMR, which was licensed to a large pharmaceutical firm.
• Laurie K. Read, Microbiology and Immunology, and collaborator John C. Fisk, Microbiology and Immunology, developed Type III Trypanosoma brucei Arginine Methyltransferase, which was licensed to CH3 BioSystems LLC.
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