IU School of Medicine researchers disclose more than 70 inventions in the 2016-17 fiscal year

Faculty, staff and student researchers at the Indiana University School of Medicine reported 73 inventions during the fiscal year July 1, 2016, to June 30, 2017. Over the last two fiscal years, IU School of Medicine researchers disclosed 147 inventions.

Disclosures were made to Indiana University Research and Technology Corp., which served to protect, market and license intellectual property developed at Indiana University and to help advance commercialization of IU faculty discoveries by industry.

IU School of Medicine researchers who submitted invention disclosures in the 2016-17 fiscal year are:

• Clifford Babbey, IU Health Center for Aortic Disease
• Robert Bacallao, Department of Medicine
• Sunil Badve, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
• Taeok Bae, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, IU School of Medicine-Northwest-Gary
• Teresita Bellido, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology
• Lynda Bonewald, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
• David Boone, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, IU School of Medicine-South Bend
• Malaz Boustani, Department of Medicine
• Hal Broxmeyer, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
• Bobbi Byrne, Department of Pediatrics
• Jinhui Chen, Department of Neurological Surgery
• Peng-Sheng Chen, Department of Medicine
• Kenneth Cornetta, Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics
• Timothy Corson, Department of Ophthalmology
• Susannah Ellsworth, Department of Radiation Oncology
• Yesim Gökmen-Polar, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
• Brittney-Shea Herbert, Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics
• Peter Hollenhorst, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• Patricia Hollingsworth, Healthy IU
• Mark Kelley, Department of Pediatrics
• Michael Koch, Department of Urology
• Murray Korc, Department of Medicine
• Sachiko Koyama, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology
• Bruce Lamb, Paul and Carole Stark Neurosciences Research Institute
• Suthat Liangpunsakul, Department of Medicine
• Tao Lu, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology
• Troy Markel, Department of Surgery
• Jonathan Merrell, Department of Pediatrics
• Samy Meroueh, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• Raghu Mirmira, Department of Pediatrics, Department of Medicine
• Harikrishna Nakshatri, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Department of Surgery
• Kenneth Nephew, Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology
• Alexander Niculescu III, Department of Psychiatry
• Heather O’Leary, Department of Medicine
• Meagan O’Neill, Department of Pediatrics
• Alexander Obukhov, Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology
• Christie Orschell, Department of Medicine
• Sophie Paczesny, Department of Pediatrics
• Avinash Patil, Department of Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
• Chad Ruffin, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
• Titus Schleyer, Department of Medicine
• Jaipal Singh, Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology
• Lester Smith, Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences
• Hiromi Tanaka, Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics
• Joseph Tector III, Department of Surgery
• Paul Territo, Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences
• Matthew Turner, Department of Dermatology
• Raj Vuppalanchi, Department of Medicine
• Yu-Chien Wu, Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences
• Cong Yan, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
• Xiao-Ming Yin, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
• Mervin Yoder, Department of Pediatrics
• Hamideh Zarrinmayeh, Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences
• Jian-Ting Zhang, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology
• Zhong-Yin Zhang, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, IU School of Medicine-West Lafayette

On July 1, 2017, IU’s technology transfer staff were reorganized, moving both the personnel and the technology transfer function from the Indiana University Research and Technology Corp. to the Office of the Vice President for Research. These functions include receiving and vetting invention disclosures, applying for intellectual property protection, marketing technologies and licensing them to established companies and startups. Changes were implemented in an effort to better serve faculty needs, allowing closer alignment and to enhance the ability to leverage university resources and realize efficiencies.