On April 25, 2024, the Office of Technology Management hosted the seventh annual Celebration of Inventors, an event to honor and recognize Washington University inventors, researchers and faculty entrepreneurs. Honorees included 2023 United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) awardees; National Academy of Inventors Fellows and Senior Members; and the recipient of the 2024 Chancellor’s Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
National Academy of Inventors Fellows 2023
David T. Curiel, MD, PhD
James W. Janetka, PhD
National Academy of Inventors Senior Members 2024
Hong Chen, PhD
Jonathan R. Silva, PhD
| Patent Name | Inventors |
| Methods of Polypeptide Identification, and Compositions Therefor | Robi D. Mitra |
| Opto-Mechanical System and Method Having Chaos Induced Stochastic Resonance and Opto-Mechanically Mediated Chaos Transfer | Lan Yang, Sahin Kaya Ozdemir, Bo Peng, Faraz Monifi |
| Goggle Imaging Systems and Methods | Samuel I. Achilefu, Yang Liu, Viktor Gruev, Joseph P. Culver, Walter John Akers, Adam Bauer |
| System and Method For Task-Less Mapping Of Brain Activity | Eric Claude Leuthardt, Nicholas Szrama, Carl Hacker, Timothy Laumann, Maurizio Corbetta, Abraham Z. Snyder |
| Three Dimensional Electrospun Biomedical Patch for Facilitating Tissue Repair | Matthew R. MacEwan |
| Methods for Treating Alzheimer’s Disease | Timothy M. Miller, Sarah DeVos, C. Frank Bennett, Frank Rigo |
| Administration of Nicotinamide Mononucleotide in the Treatment of Disease | Shin-ichiro Imai, Rajendra Apte |
| Treatment of Cardiovascular Disease Using ACTRII Ligand Traps | Keith A. Hruska, Yifu Fang, William Smith, Nianhang Chen |
| Compositions and Methods of Use of Antibacterial Drug Combinations | Gautam Dantas, Patrick Gonzales, Kevin Forsberg, Mitchell Pesesky, Mayland Chang, Shahriar Mobashery |
| Acceptance, Commissioning, and Ongoing Benchmarking of a Linear Accelerator (LINAC) Using an Electronic Portal Imaging Device (EPID) | Sridhar Yaddanapudi, Sreekrishna M. Goddu, Sasa Mutic, Todd Pawlicki |
| Acceptance, Commissioning, and Ongoing Benchmarking of a Linear Accelerator (LINAC) Using an Electronic Portal Imaging Device (EPID) | Sridhar Yaddanapudi, Sreekrishna M. Goddu, Sasa Mutic, Todd Pawlicki |
| Biosynthesis Method With Host Cell and Quality Control System | Fuzhong Zhang, Yi Xiao |
| Compositions and Methods for Targeted Cytokine Delivery | Alexander S. Krupnick, Eric Lazear, Daved H. Fremont |
| Methods and Compositions for Detection of Enterovirus D68 | Gregory A. Storch, Todd N. Wylie, Kristine M. Wylie |
| Foot Device | Michael D. Weiss |
| Synthetic Plasmodium Antigens, Compositions, and Uses Thereof | Niraj H. Tolia, John H. Adams, Christopher L. King, Edwin Chen, Nichole Diane Salinas, Miriam Thankam George, Francis B. Ntumngia, Samantha Jones Barnes |
| Noninvasive Three-Dimensional Imaging of Uterine Electrophysiology | Phillip S. Cuculich, Alison Gale Cahill, Alan L. Schwartz, Yong Wang |
| Preparative Electrophoretic Method for Targeted Purification of Genomic DNA Fragments | Robi D. Mitra, Ezra S. Abrams, Todd J. Barbera, T. Christian Boles, Jeffrey D. Milbrandt |
| Real Time Monitoring and Prediction of Motion in MRI | Nico U. Dosenbach, Jonathan Koller, Andrew Van, Abraham Z. Snyder, Amy Mirro, Damien Fair, Eric Earl, Rachel Klein, Oscar Miranda Dominguez, Anders Perrone |
| System and Method for Multi-Modality Quantification of Neuroinflammation in Central Nervous System Diseases | Yong Wang, Qing Wang, Tammie Lee Smith Benzinger |
| System and Method for Virtual Reality Data Integration and Visualization for 3D Imaging and Instrument Position Data | Jonathan Silva, Jennifer Silva |
| Antibodies to Zika Virus and Methods of Use Thereof | Michael Diamond, Daved H. Fremont, Haiyan Zhao, Estefania Fernandez, Derek Jerome Platt, Christopher A. Nelson |
| Methods of Protein Docking and Rational Drug Design | Gregory R. Bowman |
| AP4 and Methods of Promoting T Cell Activation | Takeshi Egawa, Chun Chou |
| Synthesis of Aerosol Gels Comprising Macro-Aggregates in a Buoyancy-Opposed Flame Reactor by a Diffusion-Limiting Cluster Aggregating Process | Rajan K. Chakrabarty, Pai Liu |
| Compositions Comprising a Modified GlcNAc-1-Phosphotransferase and Methods of Use Thereof | Stuart A. Kornfeld, Lin Liu, Wang Lee, Balraj Doray |
| Incorporation of Internal Polya-Encoded Poly-Lysine Sequence Tags and Their Variations for the Tunable Control of Protein Synthesis in Bacterial and Eukaryotic Cells | Sergej Djuranovic, Rachel Green |
| Large-Scale Networks of Growth Transform Neurons | Shantanu Chakrabartty, Ahana Gangopadhyay |
| Activation of Natural Cyotoxicity Receptor 2 (NCR2) | Marco Colonna, Alexander D. Barrow |
| Use of Fatty Acid Oxidation Inhibitors as Antimicrobials | Jennifer A. Philips, Pallavi Chandra, Kathryn Moore, Mireille Ouimet |
| Methods and Systems for Noninvasive and Localized Brain Liquid Biopsy Using Focused Ultrasound | Eric Claude Leuthardt, Gavin P. Dunn, Hong Chen, Allegra Petti |
| Nanoemulsion and Methods of Use Thereof | Shabaana Abdul Khader, Mushtaq Ahmed, Ali Fattom, Douglas Smith, Tarek Hamouda |
| Compositions and Methods of Treatment Using Nicotinamide Mononucleotide | Shin-ichiro Imai, Alessia Grozio |
| Compounds and Methods for Treating Bacterial Infections | James W. Janetka, Vasilios Kalas, Scott James Hultgren, Jerry Pinkner, Amarendar Reddy Maddirala, Vishnu Damalanka |
| Small Molecule Regulators of Mitochondrial Fusion and Methods of Use Thereof | Gerald W. Dorn |
| Supervised Classifier for Optimizing Target for Neuromodulation, Implant Localization, and Ablation | Eric Claude Leuthardt, Carl Hacker, Shan H. Siddiqi, Timothy Laumann, Andy Glenn Sanchez Daniel |
| Fully Integrated Parity-Time Symmetric Electronics | Xuan Zhang, Lan Yang, Weidong Cao, Weijian Chen |
| Novel In Vitro And In Vivo Enrichment Strategy Targeting Lymphocytes Derived From Vector Transduced HSCS For Therapy Of Disorders | John F. DiPersio, Jeffrey A. Medin, Murtaza S. Nagree |
| Microprobe | Lan Yang, Fang-Jie Shu, Xuefeng Jiang, Guangming Zhao |
| ML-Based Methods for Pseudo-CT and HR MR Image Estimation | Chunjoo (Justin) Park, Sasa Mutic, Hao Zhang, Olga Green |
| Methods of Treating Based on Site-Specific Tau Phosphorylation | Nicolas Barthelemy, Randall John Bateman, Eric McDade |
| Microscale-Bipolar-Interface-Enabled PH Gradients in Electrochemical Devices | Zhongyang Wang, Vijay K. Ramani, Javier Parrondo, Shrihari Sankarasubramanian |
| Split Intein Mediated Protein Polymerization for Microbial Production of Materials | Fuzhong Zhang, Christopher H. Bowen, Bin Dai |
| Compositions and Methods of Making and Using Protein-Functionalized Hydrogels | Amit Pathak, Bapi Sarker |
| Methods and Apparatus for Wireless Power Delivery and Remote Sensing Using Self-Capacitances | Shantanu Chakrabartty, Yarub Alazzawi, Kenji Aono, Erica L. Scheller |
| Barbed Mesh for Incision Closure and Hernia Repair | John Felder |
| Methods of Detecting, Measuring, or Imaging a Concentration or Location of a Therapeutic Agent | Hong Chen, Yaoheng Yang, Jeffrey F. Williamson |
| Methods and Compositions for Treatment of Cancer | Matthew J. Christopher, John F. DiPersio, Timothy J. Ley, Allegra Petti, Michael P. Rettig |
| Polarization Division Multiplexed (PDM) Communication Systems and Devices and Methods of Use Thereof | Roger Dean Chamberlain, Darko Ivanovich, Viktor Gruev |
| Materials and Methods for Photothermal Membrane Distillation | Young-Shin Jun, Srikanth Singamaneni, Xuanhao Wu, Qisheng Jiang |
| Materials and Methods for Implementing Immunoassay on Microneedle Patch for Detection and Quantification of Bioanalytes in Interstitial Fluid | Srikanth Singamaneni, Zheyu Wang, Jingyi Luan |
| Passive and Compact Liquid Metal Heat Switch | Patricia B. Weisensee, Mehran Abolghasemibizaki, Junhui Li |
| Methods of Image Reconstruction to Reduce Artifacts in Rapid CBCT Scans | Chunjoo (Justin) Park, Bin Cai, Sasa Mutic |
| Methods and Devices to Generate [F-18]Triflyl Fluoride and Other [F-18] Sulfonyl Fluorides | Dong Zhou |
| Near Infrared Fluorescent Dyes, Formulations and Related Methods | Samuel I. Achilefu, Rui Tang, Duanwen Shen, Avik Som, Baogang Xu, Gail Sudlow, Christopher Egbulefu, Partha Karmakar, Kexian Liang |
| Barbed Rod for Linear Tissue Closure and Approximation | John Felder |
