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On behalf of the UNMC leadership and UNeMed staff, we welcome you to the
2014 UNeMed Innovation Awards, which recognize the significant and ongoing innovations of the UNMC faculty, staff, and students.
UNeMeds mission is simple to articulate: We are here to help improve healthcare
by fostering innovation, advancing biomedical research and engaging entrepreneurs and industry to commercialize novel technologies.
Innovations all have the same humble beginningan idea or hypothesis. The path
for an idea to become a product that improves the lives of millions is a daunting and
perilous journey fraught with many obstacles. That is why UNeMed exists. We are
here to help provide the advice, pathways and connections for your idea to grow and
make the world a better place.
The Innovation Awards represent the culmination of Innovation Week as we celebrate the creators of novel technology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.
Today, we will recognize the inventors who have submitted new inventions, received
issued U.S. patents, and successfully licensed technology. In addition, we will look to
the future by recognizing new technology with strong potential, and honor Dr. Marius
Florescu with the 2014 UNeMed Emerging Inventor award.
The UNeMed staff is committed to helping you develop your new inventions and
make vital connections with industry. Please draw upon our expertise, and visit us
at 4460 Farnam Street (Annex 14 on the Campus map) or in our satellite office at
1007 Durham Research Center I. Our goal is to help you create relationships that will
enable your work to positively impact the lives of people throughout Nebraska and
around the world.
Sincerely,
Welcome
Opening Remarks
Innovation Rewind:
The Year in Review
Presentation of Awards:
New Inventions
Issued Patents
Licensed Technology
Special Awards:
Most Promising New Invention
Emerging Inventor
Closing Remarks
Reception
DRC I Atrium
KM Monirul Islam*
Peter Iwen
Jiang Jiang
Jason Johanning
Katherine Jones
Alexander Kabanov*
Alexey Kamenskiy*
Tammy Kielian
Lynell Klassen*
Jill Knoell
Maximillian Kurz*
Rongshi Li*
Xinming Liu*
Oksana Lockridge
Jason MacTaggart*
Amy Mantz
Eyal Margalit
Eric Markvicka
Joseph John McBride*
Yarden Medeiros
Ted Mikuls
Vincent Morris
Mukul Mukherjee
Florian Nachan
Prabagaran Narayanasamy*
Amarnath Natarajan
Carl Nelson*
Thang Nguyen*
Trong Nguyen*
Gregory Oakley
Dmitry Oleynikov
David Oupicky*
Babu Padanilam
Amol Patil
Nicholas Phillips*
Iraklis Pipinos*
Ablofazl Pourghodrat
Prakash Radhakrishnan
Pierre-Yves Renard
Stephen Rennard
Ali Rezaeian
June Ryan*
Sam Sanderson*
Joseph Vetro
Saraswathi Viswanathan*
Michael Wadman*
Richard Walker
Dong Wang*
Guangshun (Gus) Wang*
Zhulian Wang
Tony Wilson*
Jingwei Xie
Jennifer Yentes
Jialin Zheng*
Amy Lehman
Xiang-De Liu
Jonathan Morse
R. Lee Mosley
Dmitry Oleynikov*
Hasan Otu
Stephen Platt
Stephen Rennard
Mark Rentschler
Ashley Reynolds
Khalid Sayood
Lawton Verner
Serguei Vinogradov
Guangshun (Gus) Wang
Nathan Wood
*Multiple
Katherine Jones
Jill Knoell
Marilynn Larson
Oksana Lockridge
Daniel T. Monaghan
Prakash Radhakrishnan
Lawrence Schopfer
Stephen Smith
Dawn Venema
PATENTS ISSUED
1. Compositions and Methods for the Diagnosis and Treatment of
Inflammatory Disorders and Fibrotic Diseases
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PATENTS ISSUED
TECHNOLOGIES LICENSED
Tissue Handling Device
Gregory Gordon
NMDA Modulators
Daniel T. Monaghan
Steven Hinrichs
Oksana Lockridge
Lawrence Schopfer
Marilynn Larson
Elizabeth Beam
Instructional Health/Safety Videos
Shawn Gibbs
Jill Knoell
Stephen Smith
Secure Lab Results
Reporting Software
Targeting Glycoproteins
to Treat Cancer
Instructional Health/Safety Videos
Steven Hinrichs
Michael (Tony) Hollingsworth
Prakash Radhakrishnan
Dawn Venema
Kate Boulter
Katherine Jones
EMERGING INVENTOR
Dr. Linder
Today, Innovation Week is about far more than recognizing a handful of UNMC scientists who
secure patents. Its a celebration that recognizes, rewards and encourages innovative thoughts
and ideas, whether they come from the most seasoned and esteemed researcher or the leastknown first-year student who might know a better way.
Last year, the work of Keshore Bidasee, Ph.D., was featured as the most promising new invention,
and top honors went to Howard Gendelman, M.D., as the first-ever Innovator of the Year.
Dr. Gendelman, the chairman of the
Department of Pharmacology and
Experimental Neuroscience, was honored
for his work against neurodegenerative
and infectious diseases. In 2013
UNeMed helped him build an industrial
research partnership that will explore his
nanoformulated antiretroviral therapy,
called NanoART. If successful, NanoART
could reduce the current need of daily
medications for HIV management to a
single, monthly dose.
Dr. Gendelman
Dr. Bidasee
AWARD WINNERS
Special Awards
2014 Marius Florescu, M.D.......................Emerging Inventor
2013 Howard Gendelman, M.D................Innovator of the Year
2012 Tammy Kielian, Ph.D........................Emerging Inventor
2011 Jonathan Vennerstrom, Ph.D...........Lifetime Achievement
2010 Amarnath Natarajan, Ph.D...............Emerging Inventor
2009 Rodney Markin, M.D., Ph.D.............Lifetime Achievement
2008 Dong Wang, Ph.D.............................Emerging Inventor
2007 Robert LeVeen, M.D.........................Lifetime Achievement
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*In 2008 the Most Promising New Invention award was shared.