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- How Two Former Waiters Are Improving Restaurant Business (Posted Mar 05, 2012)
- Fast Talk: Restaurant Software by Waiters for Waiters (Posted Mar 05, 2012)
- UB to Celebrate Faculty Inventors, Entrepreneurs at Annual Reception (Posted Feb 29, 2012)
- Can i(Pod) Take Your Order? UB Grad and Former Student Launch Tech Start-up to Market Restaurant App (Posted Feb 10, 2012)
- Refulgent Software Video (Posted Feb 10, 2012)
- Anonymous faculty donation creates fund to commercialize UB research (Posted Jan 26, 2012)
- Noteworthy UB inventions from 2011 (Posted Jan 26, 2012)
- Embedding quantum dots increases efficiency of solar cells (Posted Jan 26, 2012)
- UB restructures research office (Posted Jan 11, 2012)
- Two New Companies Join UB Technology Incubator in 2011 (Posted Dec 22, 2011)
- Company pilots breathalyzer kiosk (Posted Oct 27, 2011)
- UB pledges to expand entrepreneurship, (Posted Sep 29, 2011)
- Medical Acoustics, UB reaching (Posted Sep 08, 2011)
- Asian energy officials visit incubator (Posted Aug 04, 2011)
- UB faculty inventors recognized (Posted Jul 04, 2011)
- BioNetwork assists WNY biotech startups (Posted May 12, 2011)
- Twenty UB Patents Awarded in 2010 (Posted Mar 25, 2011)
- UB to Honor Faculty Inventors (Posted Mar 25, 2011)
- New techniques for stapling peptides (Posted Feb 17, 2011)
- New dyes improve solar technologies (Posted Jan 20, 2011)
- Helping Drinkers Monitor Their Intake (Posted Dec 31, 2010)
- New Dyes Improve Solar Technologies for Generating Clean Electricity and Hydrogen Fuel (Posted Dec 29, 2010)
- New Incubator Firms Contribute to the Growth of Western New York's Knowledge Economy (Posted Dec 20, 2010)
- Spining UB technology into funding, jobs (Posted Oct 11, 2010)
- Engineered stem cells overcome (Posted Oct 04, 2010)
- Engineer-Inventor Appointed Interim Vice President for Research at UB (Posted Jul 27, 2010)
- National report recognizes 3 UB spinoffs (Posted May 19, 2010)
- UB Inventors Honored at NFIPLA Awards (Posted May 07, 2010)
- Power grid is inefficient, expensive and vulnerable (Posted Apr 22, 2010)
- Venture capital fund urged (Posted Apr 01, 2010)
- Applied Sciences Group, Inc. is awarded $270k Federal Contract from the VA (Posted Mar 22, 2010)
- UB Inventor Kris Schindler pictured in Buffalo News (Posted Mar 16, 2010)
- Inventors & entrepreneurs gather at UB (WIVB-TV) (Posted Mar 16, 2010)
- "Smart Grid" Is Focus of First Workshop in UB's "Business of Energy" Series (Posted Feb 23, 2010)
- Strengthening lungs of premature infants (Posted Feb 15, 2010)
- Grant continues UB-Saudi collaboration (Posted Jan 25, 2010)
How Two Former Waiters Are Improving Restaurant Business
(Posted Mar 05, 2012)
Fast Talk: Restaurant Software by Waiters for Waiters
(Posted Mar 05, 2012)
UB to Celebrate Faculty Inventors, Entrepreneurs at Annual Reception
(Posted Feb 29, 2012)
Can i(Pod) Take Your Order? UB Grad and Former Student Launch Tech Start-up to Market Restaurant App
Newest member of the UB Technology Incubator makes the news.
(Posted Feb 10, 2012)
Refulgent Software Video
(Posted Feb 10, 2012)
Anonymous faculty donation creates fund to commercialize UB research
(Posted Jan 26, 2012)
Noteworthy UB inventions from 2011
(Posted Jan 26, 2012)
Embedding quantum dots increases efficiency of solar cells
(Posted Jan 26, 2012)
UB restructures research office
(Posted Jan 11, 2012)
Two New Companies Join UB Technology Incubator in 2011
(Posted Dec 22, 2011)
Company pilots breathalyzer kiosk
(Posted Oct 27, 2011)
UB pledges to expand entrepreneurship,
(Posted Sep 29, 2011)
Medical Acoustics, UB reaching
(Posted Sep 08, 2011)
Asian energy officials visit incubator
(Posted Aug 04, 2011)
UB faculty inventors recognized
(Posted Jul 04, 2011)
BioNetwork assists WNY biotech startups
(Posted May 12, 2011)
Twenty UB Patents Awarded in 2010
In 2010, 20 patents were awarded to University at Buffalo faculty covering a broad range of research, including calcium sulfate nanoparticles for bone regeneration; fast, efficient ways to produce novel pharmaceutical compounds...
(Posted Mar 25, 2011)
UB to Honor Faculty Inventors
University at Buffalo faculty who are inventing and patenting new products and discoveries, commercializing research and developing startup companies ...
(Posted Mar 25, 2011)
New techniques for stapling peptides
(Posted Feb 17, 2011)
New dyes improve solar technologies
(Posted Jan 20, 2011)
Helping Drinkers Monitor Their Intake
Tech Firm opens at UB Incubator
(Posted Dec 31, 2010)
New Dyes Improve Solar Technologies for Generating Clean Electricity and Hydrogen Fuel
(Posted Dec 29, 2010)
New Incubator Firms Contribute to the Growth of Western New York's Knowledge Economy
(Posted Dec 20, 2010)
Spining UB technology into funding, jobs
(Posted Oct 11, 2010)
Engineered stem cells overcome
(Posted Oct 04, 2010)
Engineer-Inventor Appointed Interim Vice President for Research at UB
Alexander Cartwright, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Electrical Engineering, and newly appointed Vice President for Research, has a long and distinguished career, not only as a scientist, but as an inventor. As an active cross-disciplinary research collaborator, he is a co-inventor on six issued patents and six pending patent applications. He most recently participated with Drs. Frank Bright and Jerome Schentag, in the development of a glucose monitor. This technology is licensed to TheraSyn Sensors, Inc., a UB start-up company whose initial product is a non-invasive glucose sensor that promises to be less expensive and more acceptable than the traditional “finger stick” method that people with diabetes use to measure their sugar levels on a daily basis. Dr. Cartwright’s expertise as an electrical engineer is teamed with Dr. Bright’s chemistry expertise and Dr. Schentag’s knowledge of pharmaceuticals and diagnostics. Together, they promise to develop the glucose sensor as well as a series of sensors for screening and monitoring important diseases of man.
Dr. Cartwright also has inventions related to solar cell technologies, in collaboration with Drs. Paras Prasad and Mark Swihart, among others. These inventions are licensed to Solexant Corporation, which has recently received a large private investment to develop these technologies.
Dr. Cartwright is also collaborating with faculty from otolaryngology, computer science, pathology, and chemistry on a series of wound sensing and healing technologies. Dr. Cartwright has assumed the Interim Vice President for Research role, however, he will continue his research and collaborative commercial development of his remarkable inventions
(Posted Jul 27, 2010)
National report recognizes 3 UB spinoffs
(Posted May 19, 2010)
UB Inventors Honored at NFIPLA Awards
The Niagara Frontier Intellectual Property Law Association honored Western New York Inventors during its annual banquet at the Buffalo Museum of Science on May 6. UB inventors received top honors in the Physical Science and Life Science categories for patents issued in 2009.
Life Sciences Category
• 1st Place
Patent: 7,622,574
Title: IL-14? RNA Inhibitors and Antibodies to IL-14? for the Treatment of Autoimmune Diseases and Lymphomas
UB Inventors: Julian L. Ambrus, Jr., M.D., Associate Professor, Medicine, and Long Shen, Research Assistant Professor, Medicine
Co-Inventors: Richard Ford, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, and Chongjie Zhang
Description: Two methods to block IL-14 dependent proliferation of lymphoma cells have been developed. The first, antisense ribonucleic acid targeting IL-14, represents a “cutting edge” strategy which would help validate a new method of patient treatment. The second, more traditional approach, involves blocking IL-14 with monoclonal antibodies.
• 2nd Place
Patent: 7,598,087
Title: Protein Imprinted Polymers with Integrated Emission Sites
UB Inventor: Frank Bright, Ph.D., UB Distinguished Professor, Chemistry
Description: Platform technology for rapidly (< 24 h) creating integrated chemical sensors for the detection of protein targets in complex biofluids with picogram detection limits. This patent is licensed to a Buffalo-based start-up company.
• 3rd Place
Patent: 7,566,443
Title: Method for Diagnosis of Chronic Allograft Rejection
UB Inventor: Fady K. Baddoura, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Pathology and Anatomical Sciences
Description: A method for diagnosing chronic rejection of a transplanted organ by administering radiolabeled MECA-79 antibody into the vasculature of that organ and obtaining a radiographic image. The presence of radiolabeled MECA-79 in the transplanted organ is indicative of chronic allograft rejection.
Physical Sciences Category
• 1st Place
Patent: 7,586,079
Title: Low Power Glare Sensor
UB Inventor: Albert Titus , Ph.D., Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering Co-Inventors: Christopher Mullin, Ph.D. , Dynamic Eye, and Kiriti Bhagavathula
Description: The low power glare sensor is an integrated circuit (chip) that was designed for the detection of bright spots of light in the field of view. The chip has light detectors combined with logic circuitry. The patent is co-owned with Dynamic Eye, which is also the licensee
• 2nd place
Patent: 7,586,306
Title: Simultaneously Cycled NMR Spectroscopy
UB Inventor: Thomas Szyperski, Ph.D. , Professor, Chemistry
Co-Inventors: David Parish, Ph.D.
Description: The invention enables one to simultaneously conduct more than one step of a radiofrequency phase cycle in an NMR experiment.
About the Inventor of the Year Awards Since 1975, the Niagara Frontier Intellectual Property Law Association (NFIPLA) and the Technical Societies Council (TSC) have presented the Inventor of the Year award to honor the Western New York inventor or inventors whose creativity resulted in a significant advance in a particular field. The first Inventor of the Year may be the most well known, as Wilson Greatbatch was honored for his digital demand pacemaker. We all know of Wilson Greatbatch, Ltd. which continues to be inspired by his ideas and is one of the technology leaders in Western New York as well as the entire country. Mr. Greatbatch was also honored along with John Sanford, for patenting a method for conferring resistance to retroviral infection, reflecting the wide range of Mr. Greatbatch's creativity. The following year, Frank Lowther was honored for five patents for processes of ozone generation.
Since Wilson Greatbatch was first honored, the awards have reflected the work done by Western New York inventors in a variety of fields. These areas include vaccine development, new methods of measuring cardiac output, diagnostics, environmental restoration and waste management, ceramics, and capacitors. The awards continue to demonstrate that the originality and inventiveness of Western New York inventors, companies and institutions continue over a wide range of technology fields. All expectations are that this creative tradition will continue into the future.
About the NFIPLA
The Niagara Frontier Intellectual Property Law Association (NFIPLA) is an organization of intellectual property (IP) professionals dedicated to the creation, protection, and development of IP in Western New York.
What is IP? IP is the concept that inventive ideas and artistic expression possess value, and the creators of these ideas and expressions own property rights in them. So you could say that the members of the NFIPLA protect the creative ideas that emerge from the minds of Western New Yorkers.
The organization includes practicing patent and trademark attorneys, copyright lawyers, employees of engineering and technology companies that create and develop new ideas and products, students anticipating entrance into this exciting field, patent illustrators whose skills are required to portray a patented invention, and patent researchers who help determine the breadth or scope of a patent.
(Posted May 07, 2010)
Power grid is inefficient, expensive and vulnerable
(Posted Apr 22, 2010)
Venture capital fund urged
from Start-up Series meeting 3-31-2010
(Posted Apr 01, 2010)
Applied Sciences Group, Inc. is awarded $270k Federal Contract from the VA
(Posted Mar 22, 2010)
UB Inventor Kris Schindler pictured in Buffalo News
(Posted Mar 16, 2010)
Inventors & entrepreneurs gather at UB (WIVB-TV)
(Posted Mar 16, 2010)
"Smart Grid" Is Focus of First Workshop in UB's "Business of Energy" Series
(Posted Feb 23, 2010)
Strengthening lungs of premature infants
President John F. Kennedy would have had another heir had not his second son died from respiratory distress syndrome, which doomed many premature babies before the development of drugs to replace the lung surfactant they lacked at birth.
Since 1999, nearly 500,000 premature infants have been rescued with the use of Infasurf lung surfactant administered to assist their breathing in the first critical hours after birth.
Infasurf was developed by Edmund A. Egan and Bruce A. Holm, researchers in UB’s School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences who began their work in the 1980s. Egan is professor of pediatrics and also president and chief executive officer of ONY, Inc., manufacturer of the drug. ONY, located in UB’s Technology Incubator in Amherst, has 29 employees. Holm is UB senior vice provost and executive director of UB's New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences.
An adult form of the drug, Pneumasurf, is being developed by a new company involving Egan and Holm called Pneuma Pharmaceuticals Inc. and is in phase three clinical trials involving an international collaboration of health science centers. Pneumasurf is targeted at patients requiring mechanical ventilators as the result of Direct Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome, which affects some 100,000 previously healthy adults annually in the U.S. and has a 35 percent mortality rate.
(Posted Feb 15, 2010)
Grant continues UB-Saudi collaboration
By LOIS BAKER
A UB cancer researcher has received a $300,000 grant from King Saud University (KSU) to continue her work with a Saudi researcher on a vaccine for breast cancer.
Kate Rittenhouse-Olson, professor of biotechnical and clinical laboratory sciences in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, is collaborating with Adel Almogren, professor in KSU’s Department of Pathology and Immunology, who worked with Rittenhouse when he was a graduate student at UB.
That work resulted in groundbreaking research on development of a novel vaccine immunotherapy approach that may be able to decrease the tumor burden in cancer patients by blocking cancer metastasis. The work was described in a paper published in the August 2009 issue of Neoplasia on which Almogren was a principal author and Rittenhouse was senior author.
The Saudi grant will advance this work, with the goal of perfecting the vaccine in an animal model for ultimate use in humans. Almogren and Rittenhouse-Olson will continue to collaborate and will travel between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia throughout the investigation, which may garner additional support from the Saudis as the work progresses.
“This is a very promising vaccine target,” says Rittenhouse-Olson, “because if we are successful, it could be important to breast, colon, bladder and prostate cancer patients.”
Almogren pointed out that King Saud University “is in the forefront of interest by governmental institutions in Saudi Arabia to develop a knowledge-based economy, with the goal of lessening its dependence on an oil-based economy.”
“This initiative is a step in that direction,” he said. “Collaborative research between KSU and UB could open a wide channel of scientific interaction that may not be limited to this special project.”
After the Neoplasia paper was published, Rittenhouse-Olson; her husband, James Olson, UB professor of pharmacology and toxicology and social and preventive medicine; and colleagues Susan Morey and Jamie Heimburg-Molinaro, were invited by KSU to visit Riyadh and to meet the Saudi king, known in his country as The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah ibn Abdulaziz Al Saud.
Rittenhouse-Olson said that it was an exceptional honor for four American scientists to meet with the king. “He is very interested in cancer research and education,” she noted. The king presented the visitors with gold medals engraved with images of King Saud University.
“The Saudi people were wonderful,” said Rittenhouse-Olson. “We were treated very warmly. They cared about what we thought and they respected our work. It was an amazing experience.”
Work on the research project will begin immediately.
While this is the first interaction between UB and King Saud University, Myron A. “Mick” Thompson III, UB associate provost and executive director of the graduate school, returned recently from a visit to KSU, and it is anticipated that the visits and research will result in future educational and scientific interactions between KSU and UB.
(Posted Jan 25, 2010)
