Rutgers Office for Research proudly presents Rutgers Innovations, the Technology Transfer bulletin that provides updates on Rutgers technologies and highlights collaborative and partnership opportunities for intellectual property-based assets.

From our desk to yours—Happy Holidays!

It's been our pleasure to work with you this year, and we look forward to building our business relationship in the years to come.

Improving Object Detection and Instance Segmentation of Eukaryotic Cells Using Semantic Aware Data Augmentation

A novel method of generating AI-training images that improve existing machine learning algorithms, which enables AI imaging systems to accurately analyze a wider variety of cell types, such as CAR-modified immune cells, thereby enhancing object and cell detection.

Sterically-Defined Biaryl L-Shaped N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes and Methods

Rutger's new catalyst complex of unsymmetrical NHCs with group 11 metals (Cu, Au, Ag) via a unique method of preparation, demonstrates higher reactivity in various types of chemical reactions and shows excellent functional group tolerance (halides, nitro, cyano, polar heterocycles).

Finger-input Touch Authentication Using Physical Vibration

A low-cost innovative authentication system, 'VibWrite' can discriminate fine-grained finger inputs and support up to three independent passcode secrets including PIN, lock pattern, and simple gestures, and can thereby be useful in locks for buildings, devices, storage security, cybersecurity, and automobiles, among many others.

Rutgers High Carvacrol Producing Oregano Lines ‘Pierre’ and ‘Eli’

Use it in food or as an anti-repellant! Rutgers' new oregano lines 'Eli' and 'Pierre' are characterized by very high essential oil content, high carvacrol content, and higher biomass yields with early maturity for harvest.

Startups

Startups incorporated from technologies developed at Rutgers University

Actinobac Biomed Inc.

Actinobac is a Rutgers start-up, developing therapeutics with greater benefits and fewer side effects for leukemia/lymphoma, dry eye, and psoriasis among others, and is based upon Leukothera® (LtxA), a natural protein that targets and eliminates white blood cells involved in the mechanism of many diseases.

Derisked through Commercialization Grants

Available technologies that received Rutgers Bridge Funding awards

Ultra-high-resolution micro-thermometer

A new sensor called a Tunneling-Diffusion Edge Sensor (TDES), which improves the sensitivity and resolution of existing calorimeters and bolometers by 1-3 orders of magnitude. The sensor is compatible with commercially available microfabrication techniques and can be integrated on a microscale and nanoscale footprint.

Off-the-Shelf CAR-Macrophages for Solid Tumors

Novel proprietary, off-the-shelf allogenic CAR construct can be inserted into tumor-infiltrating macrophages that specifically binds to the membrane antigens exposed on the surface of certain solid tumor cells and induces direct cancer cell death as well as a robust tumoricidal immune response.

Learn more about Rutgers Innovations

Contact Eusebio Pires, PhD, MBA at marketingbd@research.rutgers.edu

for Business Development and Partnering Opportunities.

Rutgers Technology Transfer is part of the Office for Research.