Innovation Insider

MARCH 2023

UK INNOVATE'S INNOVATION CONNECT

CELEBRATES ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY

University-Industry Engagement Advisor wrote a feature story on UK Innovate's UK Innovation Connect to check in on the progress made after marking its one-year anniversary.

Landon Borders, Executive Director of UK Innovation Connect, discussed the inaugural Kentucky Innovator Challenge on April 11, the work he and his team has done over the past year to connect faculty and industry partners and where UK Innovation Connect is heading.

UK Innovation Connect Team:

• Landon Borders, Executive Director
• Kim Sayre, Innovation Connect Manager for the College of Engineering
• Chelsea Ex-Lubeskie, Innovation Connect Manager for the College of Medicine
• Mason Hamilton, Fellow

KENTUCKY INNOVATOR CHALLENGE

April 11, 2023

9:00 am - 6:30 pm ET

Harris Ballroom

Gatton Student Center

The Kentucky Innovator Challenge brings together leaders from business, service organizations and higher education for a one-day summit to identify the most pressing challenges facing Kentucky and discuss collaborative solutions through research and innovation.

UK Innovate is hosting this in-person event, which aims to forge new relationships and lay the groundwork for innovative solutions addressing the problems of our business partners.

Click the button below to see our agenda, presenters and keynote speakers.

Apple Watch App System to Monitor Bone Marrow

Transplant Patients

Ming-Yuan Chih, Ph.D., Yongwook Song, and Gerhard Hildebrandt

Developed at the University of Kentucky, this mobile and wearable system supports bone marrow transplant patients in their recovery journey. This support system aims to promote patients' physical activity, improve their communication with providers and boost their motivation for recovery. This app offers several services that meet the most important needs of patients and fills the void in the market.

MING-YUAN CHIH, PH.D.

College of Health Sciences

Dr. Chih joined the faculty of Human Health Sciences after receiving his doctoral degree in Industrial Engineering with a focus on Health Systems Engineering from University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has studied how information and communication technology may help patients and their family caregivers. He is interested in developing and implementing interventions that enable patients and their families to play a central role in the management and improvement of the patient’s health.

Dr. Chih developed the Apple watch app system to monitor bone marrow transplant patients with Yongwook Song and Gerhard Hildebrandt.

Shout out to UK Innovation Connect Fellow Mason Hamilton, who did a fantastic job presenting on "Reclaiming Your Competitive Advantage" during the 4th annual James B. Beam Institute Industry Conference held March 13-15 at the University of Kentucky.

Thursday, April 20, 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 so much more!

Presenters:

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

U.S. PATENTS ISSUED

FEBRUARY 2023

11,571,394 Modified-RNA nanoparticles for induction of RNA interference

Subba Reddy Palli, Ramesh Dhadapani

11,576,963 Multivalent live-attenuated influenza vaccine for p prevention and control of equine influenza virus (EIV) in horses

Thomas M. Chambers, Luis Martinez-Sobrido

11,578,071 Preparation of pyrazolo[3,4-B]pyridines as antimalarials

Scott Charles Eagon, Rodney Kip Guy,Jared Hammill

11,578,101 Proteasome inhibitors

Kyung Bo Kim

LICENSES/OPTIONS EXECUTED

FEBRUARY 2023

Carlow University

Nora Warshaswsky

Thomas Jefferson University

Justin Todd Burus

Lee Park

Pamela Hull

VivaMed PG Solutions, LLC

Chang-Guo Zhan

Fang Zheng

Shuo Zhou

Ziyuan Zhou

OTC'S 2022 UK INNOVATORS SURVEY

OPEN UNTIL APRIL 16

Each year the UK Office of Technology Commercialization (OTC) creates a feedback survey on its services for UK innovators who interacted that year with OTC to provide feedback.

The UK Innovator Survey for 2022 is live. If you are a University of Kentucky employee innovator who interacted with the Office of Technology Commercialization in 2022, we need your feedback to continue to improve our services.

Please complete the OTC UK Innovator Survey 2022 by April 16, 2023.