UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY

INNOVATOR HONOREES

FY 2023

MILESTONE PATENTS

Kunlei Liu (20)

College of Engineering

Chang-Guo Zhan (30)

College of Pharmacy

NAI FELLOWS

Linda Dwoskin

College of Pharmacy

Chang-Guo Zhan

College of Pharmacy

PATENTS

Keemia Abad

Center for Applied Energy Research

Rodney Kip Guy

College of Pharmacy

Thomas L. Robl

Center for Applied Energy Research

Samuel G. Awuah

College of Arts and Sciences

Anika M. Hartz

College of Medicine

Jurgen Rohr

College of Pharmacy

Bjoern Bauer

College of Pharmacy

Jeffrey Todd Hastings

College of Engineering

Craig R. Rush

College of Medicine

Bradley J. Berron

College of Engineering

Bradley D. Irvin (2)

Center for Applied Energy Research

Julius Schoop

College of Engineering

Dibakar Bhattacharyya

College of Engineering

Ibrahim S. Jawahir

College of Engineering

Mary Sheppard

College of Medicine

Gregory J. Bix

College of Medicine

Robert B. Jewell

Center for Applied Energy Research

Jian Shi

College of Engineering

Ryan Bradley

College of Engineering

Thomas C. Keene

College of Agriculture, Food and Environment

Darrell N. Taulbee

Center for Applied Energy Research

Thomas M. Chambers

College of Agriculture, Food and Environment

Kunlei Liu (3)

College of Engineering

(Technology Developed under Center for Applied Energy Research)

Jesse G. Thompson

Center for Applied Energy Research

Joseph Chappell

College of Pharmacy

(Developed under College of Agriculture, Food and Environment)

Hong Lu

College of Medicine

Jon S. Thorson

College of Pharmacy

Alan Daugherty

College of Medicine

Rollie G. Mills

College of Engineering

Sylvie Garneau-Tsodikova (2)

College of Pharmacy

Tristana Duvallet

Center for Applied Energy Research

Anne E. Oberlink

Center for Applied Energy Research

Vincent J. Venditto

College of Pharmacy

David Feola

College of Pharmacy

Ayokunle Omosebi

Center for Applied Energy Research

Joshua Werner

College of Engineering

Xin Gao

Center for Applied Energy Research

Lindell Ormsbee

College of Engineering

Chang Guo-Zhan

College of Pharmacy

John Gensel

College of Medicine

Subba Reddy Palli

College of Agriculture, Food and Environment

Fang Zheng

College of Pharmacy

Octavio Gonzalez

College of Dentistry

Roger S. Perrone (2)

Center for Applied Energy Research

Haining Zhu

College of Medicine

COPYRIGHTS

James Brusuelas

College of Engineering

Melinda Ickes

College of Education

Suzanne L. Pilon

College of Nursing

Jacqueline Anne Frank

College of Medicine

John Lyons

College of Public Health


Justin Fraser

College of Medicine

Keith R. Pennypacker

College of Medicine


LICENSES/OPTIONS

Kristin Ashford

College of Nursing

Robert B. Jewell (2)

Center for Applied Energy Research

Paul Rodgers

College of Fine Arts

Janine Barnett

College of Nursing

Aardra Kachroo

College of Agriculture, Food and Environment

Julius Schoop

College of Engineering

Stephen Brown

College of Medicine

Pradeep Kachroo

College of Agriculture, Food and Environment

Stefan Stamm

College of Medicine

Justin T. Burus (9)

Markey Cancer Center

Clay Larkin

College of Engineering



Vishwas Talwakar (2)

College of Medicine

Joseph Chappell

College of Pharmacy

(Developed under the College of Agriculture, Food and Environment)

Florence Lima

College of Medicine

John S. Thompson

College of Medicine

Dennis Cheek

College of Medicine

Kunlei Liu

College of Engineering

(Developed under Center for Applied Energy Research)

Nimal Verma

College of Medicine

Quan Chen

College of Medicine

Andrea McCubbin

College of Medicine

(Developed under College of Nursing)

Sharon Walsh

College of Medicine

Florin Despa

College of Medicine

Kyle Murphy

College of Medicine

Justin Welden

College of Medicine

Letitia Ducas

College of Nursing

Heather Nikolic

Center for Applied Energy Research

David M. Yurek

College of Medicine

Tristana Duvallet (2)

Center for Applied Energy Research

Anne E. Oberlink (2)

Center for Applied Energy Research

Chang-Guo Zhan

College of Pharmacy

Reynolds Frimpong

Center for Applied Energy Research

Ayokunle Omosebi

Center for Applied Energy Research

Fang Zheng

College of Pharmacy

Xin Gao

Center for Applied Energy Research

Lee Park (9)

Markey Cancer Center


Larry B. Goldstein

College of Medicine

David Puleo (2)

College of Engineering


J. Zach Hilt (2)

College of Engineering

Madhumathi Rao

College of Medicine


Pamela Hull (9)

Markey Cancer Center

Thomas L. Robl (2)

Center for Applied Energy Research


SBIR/STTR AWARDS

CircCure Corporation

Stefan Stamm

College of Medicine

Enepret Incorporated

Joseph Chappell

College of Pharmacy

(Developed under College of Agriculture, Food and Environment)

Paratechs Corp

Bruce Webb

College of Agriculture, Food and Environment

LAUNCH BLUE UACCEL

Kaile Alford

College of Health Sciences

Anthony Faiola

College of Health Sciences

Kathryn Ruf

College of Pharmacy

Bakhyt Alipova-Turner

College of Engineering

Roberto Gedaly

College of Medicine

Julius Schoop

College of Engineering

Vrushali Angadi

College of Health Sciences

Diane Iradukunda

College of Engineering

Sujit Sinha

College of Engineering

Scott Black

College of Health Sciences

Eduardo Santillan-Jimenez

Center for Applied Energy Research

Doug Strachan

College of Arts and Sciences

Ron Bruntz

College of Medicine

Michaela Keener

College of Health Sciences

Sridhar Sunderam

College of Engineering

James Brusuelas

College of Arts and Sciences

(Developed under

College of Engineering)

Aman Khurana

College of Engineering

Great Umenweke

College of Arts and Sciences

Tim Butterfield

College of Health Sciences

Brittany Levy

College of Medicine

Alex Wang

College of Engineering

Jennifer Castle

College of Medicine

Joneen Lowman

College of Health Sciences

Jaleesa Wells

College of Fine Arts

Fanny Chapelin

College of Engineering

Francesc Marti

College of Medicine

Leslie Woltenberg

College of Health Sciences

Ming-Yuan Chih

College of Health Sciences

Sylvia Ofei

College of Medicine

Guigen Zhang

College of Engineering

Melanie Dicks

College of Pharmacy

Rob Pace

College of Arts and Sciences