On May 11, 2023, the Office of Technology Management hosted the sixth annual Celebration of Inventors, an event to honor and recognize Washington University inventors, researchers and faculty entrepreneurs. Honorees included 2022 United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) awardees and the National Academy of Inventors fellows and senior member. This year’s event also recognized the recipients of the Chancellor’s Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, 2021 and 2023.
National Academy of Inventors Fellows 2022
Guy M. Genin, PhD
Farshid Guilak, PhD
National Academy of Inventors Senior Member 2023
Lan Yang, PhD
Chancellor’s Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
2021 recipients: Aaron DiAntonio, MD, PhD and Jeffrey Milbrandt, MD, PhD
2023 recipients: David T. Curiel, MD, PhD and Michael S. Diamond, MD, PhD
Sixty total patents were awarded to Washington University in 2022, representing 163 total inventors and over 22 different departments across the University. Patent awardees and their patent names are listed below.
| Patent Title | Inventors |
| Methods and Compositions for Improving Exercise Endurance, Performance, or Tolerance | Rita Brookheart | Brian Finck |
| Split Intein Mediated Polymerization and Production of Mussel Foot Adhesive Protein Materials | Fuzhong Zhang | Eugene Kim |
| Peptide-Polynucleotide-Hyaluronic Acid Nanoparticles and Methods for Polynucleotide Transfection | Christine Pham | Huimin Yan |
| Methods And Apparatus For Improving The Image Resolution And Sensitivity Of Whole-Body Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Imaging | Yuan-Chuan Tai |Ke Li | Joseph O’Sullivan| Qiang Wang |
| CDPK1 Inhibitors, Compositions, and Methods Related Thereto | L. David Sibley |James W. Janetka |Allen T. Hopper | Jonathan Helander |
| Label-Free Detection of Renal Cancer | Srikanth Singamaneni |Chang Hee Lee |Evan David Kharasch |Jeremiah J. Morrissey |
| Label-Free Detection of Renal Cancer | Srikanth Singamaneni |Chang Hee Lee |Evan David Kharasch |Jeremiah J. Morrissey |
| Neurosteroids and Enantiomers Thereof for the Prevention and Treatment of Neurodegenerative Conditions | Douglas Covey |Yukitoshi Izumi |Charles Zorumski |
| Systems for Producing Radionuclides Using Minimal Target Material | Gregory Gaehle |
| Balloon Encapsulation and Isovolumetric Suction Thrombectomy Catheter and Methods Thereof | Eric Leuthardt |Gayan De Silva |Guy Genin |Sanghun Lee | Joshua Osbun |Dillon Williams |Alexander Wirtz | Mohamed Zayed |
| Triblock Copolymer Based Anion Exchange Membranes (AEMs) as Separators in Electrochemical Devices | Zhongyang Wang |Javier Parrondo | Vijay Ramani |
| Compositions and Methods for Treatment of Pre-Cancerous Skin Lesions | Lynn Cornelius | Shadmehr Demehri |Raphael Kopan |
| Biomedical Patches With Aligned Fibers | Matthew MacEwan |Wilson Ray |Younan Xia |Jingwei Xie |
| Single-Impulse Panoramic Photoacoustic Computed Tomography (SIP-PACT) | Lihong Wang |Lei Li |Cheng Ma |Liren Zhu |
| System and Methods for Detecting Embedded Target Elements Using Signal Interference | Shantanu Chakrabartty |Yarub Alazzawi |Keng-Ku Liu |Srikanth Singamaneni |Mingquan Yuan |
| Atlas Registration for Resting State Network Mapping in Patients With Brain Tumors | Eric Leuthardt |Ki Yun Park | Abraham Snyder |
| Treatment for Wolfram Syndrome and Other Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress Disorders | Fumihiko Urano | Amy Clark | Jana Mahadevan |
| Imaging Nerve Function and Pathologies Using Diffusion Basis Spectrum Imaging | Sheng-Kwei Song |Tsen-Hsuan Lin |Chunyu Song |William Spees | Peng Sun |
| Compounds Having RD Targeting Motifs and Methods of Use Thereof | Samuel Achilefu | Kexian Liang | Rui Tang |
| Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Inhibitors, Methods of Making, and Methods of Use Thereof | Michael Holtzman |Benjamin J. Gerovac |Zhenfu Han | Shamus P. Keeler |Arthur Romero |Kangyun Wu |
| Non-Invasive Imaging and Treatment System for Cardiac Arrhythmias | Clifford Robinson |Phillip Cuculich |
| Dichromic Fluorescent Compounds | Samuel Achilefu |Mikhail Berezin |Zongren Zhang |
| Deep Learning-Assisted Image Reconstruction for Tomographic Imaging | Mark Anastasio |Brendan Kelly |Thomas Matthews |
| Methods of Treating Based on Site-Specific Tau Phosphorylation | Randall Bateman |Nicolas Barthelemy |Eric McDade |
| Treatment for Bacterial Infections With Salicylic Acid Analogs | Jeffrey P. Henderson |
| Acceptance, Commissioning, and Ongoing Benchmarking of a Linear Accelerator (LINAC) Using an Electronic Portal Imaging Device (EPID) | Sridhar Yaddanapudi |Sreekrishna Goddu |Sasa Mutic |
| Systems and Methods for Probabilistic Blockchains | Raj Jain |Tara Salman |
| Designs of Accurate PM Sensors and Systems for Laboratory & Real Time Calibration/Data Inversion | Pratim Biswas |Jiayu Li |
| Automated Apparatus to Improve Image Quality in X-Ray and Associated Method of Use | Steven Don| William Clayton |
| Detection of CD5 and Methods and Compositions for Modulating CD5 | Eynav Klechevsky |
| Tailored Venous Anastomosis for Arteriovenous Grafts | Mohamed Zayed |Guy Genin |Eric Leuthardt |Dillon Williams |
| Systems, Spherical Rotors, Stators, and Methods of Use | Alexander Barnes |
| Antibodies to TIP1 and Methods of Use Thereof | Dennis Hallahan |Vaishali Kapoor |Heping Yan |
| Plasmonic Patch as a Universal Fluorescence Enhancer | Srikanth Singamaneni |Evan Kharasch |Jingyi Luan |Jeremiah Morrissey |
| Systems and Methods for Stimulating Sympathetic Nervous System | Eric Leuthardt| Paige Cloonan |Ashwin Kamath |Matthew MacEwan | Amy Moore | Daniel Moran |Yidan (Ida) Qin | Wilson Ray |Christopher Zhang |
| Antigens for Detecting Toxoplasma Infection by Monitoring Cellular Immunity | L. David Sibley |Kevin Brown |Iti Saraav |Qiuling Wang |
| Chemokine Decoy Receptors of Rodent Gammaherpesviruses and Uses Thereof | Daved Fremont |Andrew Gelman |Yun Hsuan Lu |Olga Lubman |
| Methods and Compositions for Red-Shifted Chromophore Substitution for Optogenetic Applications | Joseph Corbo | Jennifer Enright | Matthew Toomey |
| System and Method for the Validation and Quality Assurance of Computerized Contours of Human Anatomy | Michael Altman |Hsin-Chen Chen |James Kavanaugh |Hua Li |Sasa Mutic |Jun Tan |
| Compositions, Systems and Methods for Cell Therapy | Farshid Guilak |
| Biomedical Patches With Aligned Fibers | Matthew MacEwan | Wilson Ray | Younan Xia |Jingwei Xie |
| Goggle Imaging Systems and Methods | Samuel Achilefu | Walter Akers |Adam Bauer |Joseph Culver |Viktor Gruev |Yang Liu |
| Fenestrated Stent System and Method of Use | Mohamed Zayed |Alexander Wirtz |
| Methods for Quantifying and Enhancing Accuracy in Microscopy Using Measures of Localization Confidence | Matthew Lew|Hesamaldin Mazidisharfabadi |Arye Nehorai |
| Mutant Huntingtin-Mediated Protein Dysfunction | Hiroko Yano |
| Methods and Systems for Real-Time 3D MRI | Taeho Kim |Chunjoo (Justin) Park |
| Multi-Pixel X-Ray Source with Tungsten-Diamond Transmission Target | Tiezhi Zhang |Praneeth Kandlakunta |
| Diagnostic Methods for Infectious Disease Using Endogenous Gene Expression | Gregory Storch |
| Intelligent Data Storage and Processing Using FPGA Devices | Ronald Indeck |Roger Chamberlain |Sharath Cholleti |Ron Cytron |Mark Franklin |
| Prevention of Tissue Ischemia and Related Methods | William Frazier |
| Three Dimensional Electrospun Biomedical Patch for Facilitating Tissue Repair | Matthew MacEwan |
| Anti-Neutrophil Activity on Innate Immune Response | Carlos Puyo |Andrew Gelman |
| Inhibitors of SARM1 NADase Activity and Uses Thereof | Jeffrey Milbrandt | Aaron DiAntonio|Kow Essuman |Xianrong Mao |Yo Sasaki |
| Mutant Tumor Necrosis Factor Receptor (TNFR) Ligands and Methods of Making and Using Same | Steven Teitelbaum |Daved Fremont|Christopher Nelson|Julia Warren |
| Systems and Methods for Point-of-Care Positron Emission Tomography | Yuan-Chuan Tai |Ke Li |Aswin Mathews |Jie Wen |
| Synthesizing PET Tracers Using [F-18] Sulfonyl Fluoride as a Source of [F-18] Fluoride | Dong Zhou |Wenhua Chu |
| Methods for Modulation of Dietary and Microbial Exposure With Compositions Comprising an EGFR Ligand | Rodney Newberry |Kathryn Knoop |Keely McDonald |
| Methods to Detect Motor Neuron Disease Comprising Micro-RNAs | Timothy Miller |Joseph Dougherty |Mariah Hoye |Theodore Hyman |Erica Koval |
| Multispectral Imaging Sensors and Systems | Viktor Gruev |Nimrod Missael Garcia Hernandez |
| Photochemically-Assisted Synthesis of Layered Birnessite (MnO2) Nanosheets | Young-Shin Jun |Haesung Jung |
