Invention of the Year Reception 2009
Past winners of Invention of the Year Awards include Enzyme Systems for Saccharification of Plant Cell Wall Polysaccharides by a Marine Bacterium to Release Fermentable Sugars, later developed into University start-up Zymetis, Inc. by inventors Steven Hutcheson and Ronald Weiner; and Phytomining of Ni from Soil, which was awarded the IOY life science title in 1995 and continues to earn the University quite a bit of money annually through a license with Viridian Environmental, LLC.
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Each year, OTC hosts the Invention of the Year Reception to honor inventors and inventions from the previous year. This year's reception awarded prizes to "Efficient Key Exchange for Symmetric Cryptosystems" by John S. Baras, Paul L. Yu, and Brian M. Sadler; "Nano-Velcro: A New Biomaterial for Improved Hemorrhage Control" by Matt Dowling, John Hess, Grant Bochicchio, and Srinivasa Raghavan; and "World's Hightest Energy Density Thin Film Battery" by Martin Peckerar, Neil Goldsman, Yves Ngu, Zeynep Dilli, and George Metze. Pictures of the finalists can be found below.
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 Dr. John Baras, Information Science Inventor of the Year and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Dr. Mel Bernstein, Vice President of Research; Inventor of the Year Dr. Paul Yu; and Dr. Gayatri Varma, Executive Director of the Office of Technology Commercialization |
 Life Science Inventor of the Year Dr. Srinivasa Raghavan, Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; Life Science Inventor of the Year Matt Dowling, Graduate Student in the Fischell Department of Bioengineering; Dr. Mel Bernstein; Dr. Gayatri Varma |
 Physical Science Inventors of the Year: Dr. Martin Peckerar, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Dr. Neil Goldsman, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Zeynep Dilli, Post-Doctoral Research Assistant; and George Metze, Research Scientist with the National Security Agency; with Dr. Bernstein and Dr. Varma |
 Information Science Finalist Dr. Mian Li, Research Associate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering; Dr. Bernstein; Information Science Finalist Dr. Shapour Azarm, Professor of Mechanical Engineering; Dr. Gayatri Varma |
 Life Science Finalist Dr. Herman Sintim, Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry of Biochemistry; Dr. Bernstein; Dr. Varma |
 Life Science Finalist Charles Luckett, Graduate Student in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry; Dr. Bernstein; Life Science Finalist Dr. Philip DeShong, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry; Dr. Varma |
 Physical Science Finalist Dr. Sreeramamurthy Ankem, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering; Dr. Bernstein; Dr. Varma |
 Physical Science Finalist Dr. Ashwani Gupta, Professor of Mechanical Engineering; Dr. Bernstein; Dr. Varma |
Not pictured: Information Science Finalists Xiaodong Yu, graduate student in UMIACS; and Dr. David Doermann, Associate Research Scientist in UMIACS |
Past winners of Invention of the Year Awards include Enzyme Systems for Saccharification of Plant Cell Wall Polysaccharides by a Marine Bacterium to Release Fermentable Sugars, later developed into University start-up Zymetis, Inc. by inventors Steven Hutcheson and Ronald Weiner; and Phytomining of Ni from Soil, which was awarded the IOY life science title in 1995 and continues to earn the University quite a bit of money annually through a license with Viridian Environmental, LLC.
This page is maintained by the Office of Technology Commercialization
Copyright 2009.University of Maryland. All rights reserved.