On April 24, 2025, the Office of Technology Management hosted the eighth annual Celebration of Inventors, an event to honor and recognize Washington University inventors, researchers and faculty entrepreneurs. Honorees included 2024 United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) awardees; newly elected National Academy of Inventors Fellow and Senior Members; and the recipient of the 2025 Chancellor’s Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. OTM also recognized the inaugural Venture Fellows cohort.
2025 Chancellor’s Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Robi D. Mitra, PhD*
*Read more: Mitra receives innovation award
National Academy of Inventors Fellow 2024**
Gregory M. Lanza, MD, PhD
National Academy of Inventors Senior Members 2025***
Rajendra Apte
Aaron DiAntonio
John DiPersio
Sophia Hayes
Srikanth Singamaneni
**Read more: Lanza named fellow of National Academy of Inventors
***Read more: Five named National Academy of Inventors senior members
2024 -2025 Venture Fellows Cohort: Michelle Connor, MD; Jae Morris, PhD; Piya Siripoksup, PhD and Bryce Stottlemire, PhD. Learn more about this inaugural cohort here.
Below is a listing of all 2024 patents and patent awardees.
| Patent Name | Inventors |
| Drain Fluid for Diagnostics | Jose Zevallos, Aadel Chaudhuri |
| USB1 Directed Regulation of Mirnas Related Hematopoietic Differentiation and Affected in Multiple Forms of Leukemia | Luis Batista, Hochang Jeong |
| Compositions and Methods for Treating Pathologic Calcification | Muhammad Farooq Rai |
| Super Resolution Magnetic Resonance (MR) Images in MR Guided Radiotherapy | Taeho Kim, Geoffrey Hugo, Zhen Ji, Matthew Schmidt, Yu Wu |
| Systems and Methods for Real-Time B0 Fluctuation Compensation | H. Michael Gach, Austen Curcuru, Taeho Kim, Umberto Villa |
| 6-AZA-Nucleoside Prodrugs as Antiviral Agents for Treating Virus Infections | Michael Diamond, Baoling Ying |
| Pixel-Wise Point Spread Function Engineering Systems and Methods | Matthew Lew, Tingting Wu |
| Barbed Rod for Linear Tissue Closure and Approximation | John Felder |
| Methods and Compositions for Reducing Pathogenic Isoforms | Andrew Findlay, Conrad Weihl |
| TPL2 Inhibiting Agents, Uses Thereof, and Detection of TPL2 | Kian-Huat Lim, Paarth Dodhiawala |
| Methods for Improved Treatment of Cancer | Robi Mitra, Arnav Moudgil, Michael Nathaniel Wilkinson |
| SPHK Inhibitors and Methods of Making and Using Same | Zhude Tu, Hao Jiang, Buck Rogers, Vijai Kumar Reddy Tangadanchu |
| Compositions and Methods for Prevention of Bladder Fibrosis | Jianghui Hou |
| Systems and Methods for Forming Micropillar Array | Damena Agonafer |
| Fast and Efficient System and Method for Detecting and Predicting Rowhammer Attacks | Xuan Zhang, Huifeng Zhu |
| Anti-IL12Rβ1 Antibodies | Marco Colonna, Cristiane Secca da Silva |
| Liquid Biopsy to Detect Cancer Early and Sensitively in Patients With Neurofibromatosis Type 1 | Aadel Chaudhuri, Angela Hirbe, Paul Jones, Jeffrey Szymanski |
| Near Infrared Fluorescent Dyes, Formulations and Related Methods | Samuel Achilefu, Christopher Egbulefu, Partha Karmakar, Kexian Liang, Duanwen Shen, Avik Som, Gail Sudlow, Rui Tang, Baogang Xu |
| Systems and Methods of Reconstructing Magnetic Resonance Images Using Deep Learning | Hongyu An, Cihat Eldeniz, Weijie Gan, Ulugbek Kamilov, Jiaming Liu |
| Methods and Systems for Modulating Unconsciousness or Anesthesia in a Subject | Christian Guay, Ben Palanca |
| Immunologically Active Fragments of Toxoplasma Gondii | Laurence Sibley, Iti Saraav, Mary Savari Dhason, Qiuling Wang |
| pH-Gradient-Enabled Microscale Bipolar Interfaces for Direct Liquid-Fuel/Oxidant Fuel Cells | Zhongyang Wang, Vijay Ramani, Shrihari Sankarasubramanian |
| Electrode-Decoupled Redox Flow Battery | Vijay Ramani, Shrihari Sankarasubramanian |
| Systems and Methods for Electromyometrial Imaging | Yong Wang, Alison Cahill, Hui Wang, Wenjie Wu |
| Systems and Methods for Guiding Surgical Tools | Eric Leuthardt |
| Ultrasound-Target-Shape-Guided Sparse Regularization to Improve Accuracy of Diffused Optical Tomography and Target Depth-Regularized Reconstruction in Diffuse Optical Tomography Using Ultrasound Segmentation as Prior Information | Quing Zhu, Shiqi Xu |
| Materials and Methods for Photothermal Membrane Distillation | Young-Shin Jun, Qisheng Jiang, Srikanth Singamaneni, Xuanhao Wu |
| Autonomous Vehicle Support Using Hybrid-Powered Embedded Sensors | Shantanu Chakrabartty, Kenji Aono, Sri Harsha Kondapalli, Owen Pochettino |
| Transvaginal Fast-Scanning Optical-Resolution Photoacoustic Endoscopy | Yuan Qu, Chiye Li, George Macones, Molly Stout, Methodius Tuuli |
| Micro-Bioelectrochemical Cell Devices and Methods of Detecting Electron Flows | John Mark Meacham, Michael Binkley, Arpita Bose, Karthikeyan Rengasamy |
| Compact Guided Diffuse Optical Tomography System for Imaging a Lesion Region | Quing Zhu, Atahar Mostafa |
| Methods and Compositions for Modulating LNCRNAS and Methods of Treatment Based on LNCRNA Expression | Christopher Maher, Ryan Fields, Jessica Silva-Fisher |
| Predicting Patient Response to Sodium Channel Blockers | Jonathan Silva, Kristen Naegle, Wandi Zhu |
| Compositions for and Methods of Diagnosing, Prognosing, and Treating Diabetes | Emil Unanue, Cheryl Lichti, Xiaoxiao Wan |
| Anti-Trem-2 Agonist Antibodies | David Holtzman, Hong Jiang, Jason Ulrich |
| Compositions of Self-Reporting Transposon (SRT) Constructs and Methods for Mapping Transposon Insertions | Robi Mitra, Arnav Moudgil, Zongtai Qi, Michael Nathaniel Wilkinson |
| 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, Yong Zhang |
| Compositions and Methods of Use Thereof for Treatment of Proteinopathies | Stephen Pak, David Perlmutter, Gary Silverman |
| Image Deformation Methods and Curved Couch for Radiotherapy Treatment Planning | Tianyu Zhao, Sasa Mutic |
| Redox Flow Battery | Shrihari Sankarasubramanian, Vijay Ramani |
| Methods for Producing Radionuclides Using Minimal Targeting Material | Gregory Gaehle |
| Alpha-Synuclein Ligands | Zhude Tu, Dhruva Dhavale, Paul Kotzbauer, Xuyi Yue |
| Methods and Systems for Evaporation of Liquid From Droplet Confined on Hollow Pillar | Damena Agonafer, Binjian Ma, John Mark Meacham, Li Shan, Patricia Weisensee |
| Antibiotics for Veterinary Staphylococcal Infections | Audrey Odom John, Rachel Edwards |
| Engineered Calcium Alginate and Uses Thereof | Young-Shin Jun, Doyoon Kim |
| Systems and Methods for Stimulating Sympathetic Nervous System | Eric Leuthardt, Paige Cloonan, Ashwin Kamath, Matthew MacEwan, Amy Moore, Daniel Moran, Yidan Qin, Wilson Ray, Christopher Zhang |
| Systems and Methods of Optimizing Functional Images of a Lesion Region Using Guided Diffuse Optical Tomography | Quing Zhu, Mark Anastasio, Shihab Uddin |
| Plasmonic Patch as a Universal Fluorescence Enhancer | Srikanth Singamaneni, Evan Kharasch, Jingyi Luan, Jeremiah Morrissey |
| Blood-Based Methods for Determining Aβ Amyloidosis | Randall Bateman |
| Compositions for Treating or Preventing Respiratory Tract Infections and Method of Use Thereof | Sharon Morley, Elizabeth Todd |
| Methods and Compositions for T Cell Activation | Amit Pathak, Eynav Klechevsky Bapi Sarker |
| Synthesis, Post-Modification and Separation of Biologics Using Acoustically Confined Substrates | John Mark Meacham, Mikhail Berezin, Michael Binkley |
| Deep Learning-Assisted Image Reconstruction for Tomographic Imaging | Mark Anastasio, Brendan Kelly, Thomas Matthews |
| Methods and Systems for Preparing and Preserving a Biological Sample | Srikanth Singamaneni, Evan Kharasch, Jeremiah Morrissey, Congzhou Wang |
| Regulated Expression of Antigen and/or Regulated Attenuation to Enhance Vaccine Immunogenicity and/or Safety | Roy Curtiss, Soo-Young Wanda, Shifeng Wang |
| Methods and Systems for Noninvasive and Localized Brain Liquid Biopsy Using Focused Ultrasound | Eric Leuthardt, Hong Chen, Gavin Dunn, Allegra Petti |
| Small Form Factor Detector Module for High Density Diffuse Optical Tomography | Joseph Culver, Adam Eggebrecht, Edward Richter |
| Antigens for Detecting Toxoplasma Infection by Monitoring Cellular Immunity | Laurence Sibley, Kevin Brown, Iti Saraav, Qiuling Wang |
| Quantitative Differentiation of Tumor Heterogeneity Using Diffusion MR Imaging Data | Yong Wang, Tammie Benzinger, Gloria Guzman, Qing Wang |
| Inhibitors of SARM1 NADase Activity and Uses Thereof | Jeffrey Milbrandt, Aaron DiAntonio, Kow Essuman, Xianrong Mao, Yo Sasaki |
| Mesothelin-Targeted Trail Trimer | Dirk Spitzer, William Hawkins |
| Methods for Detecting CCR2 Receptors | Yongjian Liu, Steven Brody, Robert Gropler, Daniel Kreisel |
| Resorbable Implant for Stimulating Tissue, Systems Including Such Implant, and Methods of Using | Wilson Ray, Matthew MacEwan, Zohny Zohny |
| Methods for Prognosing Crohn’s Disease Comprising Human Defensin 5 (HD5) | Thaddeus Stappenbeck, Ta-Chiang Liu, Ta – Kelli VanDussen |
| Methods for Diagnosing Malaria | Audrey Odom John, Nalin Katta, Baranidharan Raman, Chad Schaber, Indi Trehan |
| Compositions and Methods for Targeted Cytokine Delivery | Alexander Krupnick, Daved Fremont, Eric Lazear |
| Real Time Monitoring and Prediction of Motion in MRI | Nico Dosenbach, Jonathan Koller, Amy Mirro, Abraham Snyder, Andrew Van |
| GDF15 in Glaucoma and Methods of Use Thereof | Rajendra Apte, Jun Yoshino |
| JAK1 Inhibitors and Uses Thereof | Brian Kim |
| Self-Powered Sensors for Long-Term Monitoring | Shantanu Chakrabartty, Liang Zhou |
| Compositions Comprising Chemerin and Methods of Use Thereof | Russell Pachynski |
| Compositions and Methods for Predicting Therapeutic Outcome | Jieya Shao, Marc Diamond |
| Anti-Apoe Antibodies | David Holtzman, Hong Jiang |
| Methods to Detect Motor Neuron Disease Comprising Micro-RNAs | Timothy Miller, Joseph Dougherty, Mariah Hoye, Theodore Hyman, Erica Koval |
| Compositions and Methods for Detecting Viruses in a Sample | Gregory Storch, Kristine Wylie, Todd Wylie |
| Imaging and Treatment of Pathophysiologic Conditions by Cerenkov Radiation | Samuel Achilefu, Nalinikanth Kotagiri |
| Administration of Nicotinamide Mononucleotide in the Treatment of Disease | Shin-Ichiro Imai, Rajendra Apte |
| Three Dimensional Electrospun Biomedical Patch for Facilitating Tissue Repair | Matthew MacEwan |
| System and Method for Task-Less Mapping of Brain Activity | Eric Leuthardt, Maurizio Corbetta, Carl Hacker, Timothy Laumann, Abraham Snyder, Nicholas Szrama |
| Catheter Tip for a Catheter Assembly | Eric Leuthardt, Guy Genin, Devon Haydon, David Limbrick, Richard Marcus, Aaron McLaughlin, Daniel Moran, Manish Shah, Matthew Smyth, Samuel Stone, Lihong Wang, Michael Winek, Alexander Yang |
| Biomedical Patches With Aligned Fibers | Matthew MacEwan, Wilson Ray, Younan Xia, Jingwei Xie |
| Prodrug Compositions, Prodrug Nanoparticles, and Methods of Use Thereof | Gregory Lanza, Dipanjan Pan |
