Innovation Insider

MAY 2023

KENTUCKY, TENNESSEE GAME CHANGE TEAM WINS NSF ENGINES DEVELOPMENT AWARD

The University of Kentucky, as lead organization, together with partners across Kentucky and Tennessee, has been awarded $1 million from the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Regional Innovation Engines, or NSF Engines, program. This team’s proposal, “Advancing carbon centric circular economy technologies for advanced manufacturing solutions (KY, TN),” is led by a coalition named Generate Advanced Manufacturing Excellence for Change (GAME Change). 

“I am incredibly proud of our institution’s leadership and support and grateful for our Mid-South coalition collaborators evidencing broad partnership between Kentucky and Tennessee to compete and win this prestigious Development Award,” said Ian McClure, principal investigator on the award, associate vice president for research, innovation and economic impact, and executive director of UK Innovate.

UK INNOVATION CONNECT MANAGER

(COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE, FOOD

AND ENVIRONMENT)

UK Innovate is seeking a UK Innovation Connect Manager, to lead its innovation-based industry partnering and economic development initiatives dedicated specifically to the College of Agriculture, Food and Environment (CAFE).

Deadline to Apply: 06/11/2023

SOCIAL INNOVATION

PROJECT COORDINATOR

The Social Innovation Project Coordinator will report to the Associate Director of Social Innovation and work collaboratively with other team members to support the advancement of innovations for sustained social impact. The manager will identify commercialization partnership targets, assess and pursue market feedback, and commercialization opportunities.

Deadline to Apply: 05/31/2023

Thursday, May 23, 2023

12:00 - 1:00 pm ET

Zoom

Join us to learn about license and option agreements, why we require licensees to submit development and royalty reports, the types of information required for these reports and more!

Presenters:

• Eric Castlen, Senior Associate Director, Contracts
• Natalie Damron McCormick, Senior Contracts Coordinator
• Ali Bocook Yankey, Senior Contracts Coordinator

U.S. PATENTS ISSUED

APRIL 2023

11,623,316 Testbed device for use in predictive modelling of manufacturing processes

Julius Schoop

LICENSES/OPTIONS EXECUTED

APRIL 2023

Arisu Therapeutics, Inc.

Kyung Bo Kim

AVA Surgical Technologies, LLC

Kyle Murphy

Cytek Biosciences

Stephen Brown

John S. Thompson

OGB5, Inc.

Kim Seroogy

David M. Yurek

Assen Galal Ziady

LAUNCH BLUE'S REGIONAL I-CORPS PROGRAM SUMMER APPLICATION OPENS MAY 22

The UK I-Corps Program provides experiential entrepreneurial training to academic researchers across all fields of science and engineering. It expands programming offered to innovators through Launch Blue as a part of UK Innovate.

LAUNCH BLUE'S REGIONAL I-CORPS PROGRAM INFO SESSION

IS MAY 23

Learn more about the I-Corps program and ask questions to the Launch Blue I-Corps team in this information session via Zoom.

THE 2023 NANO + ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING SUMMIT HAS A CALL FOR ABSTRACTS OPEN UNTIL MAY 26

This annual event brings together researchers and industry in advanced manufacturing.

Oral presentation abstracts are due May 26, 2023.