Six UK Startups Receive SBIR/STTR Matching Funds!

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FEBRUARY 2019

UK STARTUPS RECEIVE SBIR/STTR MATCHING FUNDS!

The University of Kentucky (UK) Office of Technology Commercialization (OTC) is pleased to announce that six of the ten high-tech Kentucky companies receiving $2.18 million in SBIR/STTR match funding are University of Kentucky startups.

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PATENT PALOOZA! CELEBRATING INNOVATION

We are excited to be hosting our 3rd annual Patent Palooza! where we will be recognizing and celebrating UK innovators, entrepreneurs, and startups for their breakthrough discoveries and commercialization successes during FY 2018.

Make plans to celebrate the UK innovation community with us.

Tuesday, March 26, 2019

4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Ballroom 212BC

Gatton Student Center

COCA-COLA CIO AND UK ALUM ANN CARVER SPEAKING AT UK

Ann Carver, CIO of Coca-Cola North America and UK alumna will deliver a keynote address titled “Digital Transformation" hosted by the UK Alumni Association, the Office of the Executive Vice President for Finance & Administration, and the Office of the Provost.

Ann will provide an in-depth story concerning digital transformation within large multicultural, multilingual, multifaceted organizations, such as the University of Kentucky.

Friday, March 29, 2019

8:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.

Worsham Cinema

Gatton Student Center

OTC STAFF UPDATES

Several members of the staff participated in the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) conference bringing back great ideas and making wonderful connections.

During the closing session of AUTM, Ian McClure, director, was installed as a member of the the Board of Directors for a three-year term.

Gabby Keb started working in January 2019 as an OTC Fellow. She is working on her Ph.D. in microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics at the University of Kentucky. She has a bachelor's degree in biomedical science from Grand Valley State University.

Dr. Stephanie Davis started working in January 2019 as a OTC Fellow. She is a postdoctoral scholar in Neurology at the University of Kentucky and completed her doctorate in integrated biomedical sciences at Florida Southern College.

Mariam Gorjian, New Ventures manager, was selected as a finalist in Omicron Delta Kappa's 6th Annual Leadership Awards. She participated in their awards presentation on President's Day.

OTC IN ACTION!

Taunya Phillips, senior associate director of New Ventures & Alliances, presented to a class of students in Pharmacy, and Ian McClure, director, presented to Pharmacy faculty and postdocs this month educating both groups on OTC's services and programs.

OTC staff participated in the Lexington RISE #GiveFirst team meeting. This meeting provided the opportunity for community builders to connect with one another.

Over the past few months, OTC has developed a new college-specific dashboard, for access by each college’s leadership, that will keep and make available in “real time” all updated information related to each College’s inventions.

This dashboard is updated automatically as we track in our system all activity related to invention disclosures, patent filings, patent issuances, licenses and royalty income.

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DID YOU KNOW?

BY THE NUMBERS

January 2019

Team building with startups has begun through Co.Create with placement of the first intern with UK startup, Bluegrass Advanced Materials.

There are many services that startups can take advantage of through Co.Create.

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UK IP LICENSING DEALS

Circle the Globe Productions, Inc.

Seth Parker, James Griffioen

(Engineering)

Kerafast, Inc

Gregory Graf

(Pharmacy)

ISSUED PATENTS

10,173,968

Sylvie Garneau-Tsodikova (Pharmacy), David S. Watt (Molecular & Cellular Biochemistry)

10,184,118 and 10,184,119

Joseph Chappell

(Pharmacy)

10,188,743

Chunming Liu (Molecular & Cellular Biochemistry), David S. Watt (Molecular & Cellular Biochemistry), Vitaliy M. Sviripa (Pharmacy), Wen Zhang (Medicine)