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Sustainable Fungal Memristors for Neuromorphic and Eco-Friendly Computing
TS-072329 — The Need The rapid growth of artificial intelligence and neural networks is driving unprecedented demand for energy-efficient, scalable hardware. Conventional memristors require rare earths and complex fabrication, contributing to electronic waste and limiting accessibility. There is a critical need…
  • College: College of Engineering (COE)
  • Inventors: LaRocco, John; Hill, Justin; Simonis, John; Tahmina, Qudsia
  • Licensing Officer: Randhawa, Davinder

Flexible Light-Addressable Sensor for High-Resolution Physiological Mapping
TS-072319 — The Need Current methods for mapping electrical potential gradients in biological tissues, such as the brain, rely on high-density electrode arrays fabricated via costly microfabrication techniques. These rigid devices struggle to conform to complex tissue morphologies, limiting their effectiveness …
  • College: College of Engineering (COE)
  • Inventors: Li, Jinghua; Chen, Shulin; Jia, Yizhen; Liu, Tzu Li; Wang, Qi
  • Licensing Officer: Ashouripashaki, Mandana

Wearable Magnetoinductive Smart Textiles for Real-Time Muscle Health Monitoring
TS-072052 — The Need Current wearable sensors for muscle health are limited in their ability to track real-time geometric changes in muscle size and shape, especially outside controlled laboratory environments. Existing solutions, such as force myography and ultrasound, either lack direct geometric insight or a…
  • College: College of Engineering (COE)
  • Inventors: Coogle, Sam; Kiourti, Asimina
  • Licensing Officer: Randhawa, Davinder

Breakthrough In Delivery: Expanding Access to Intracellular Targets for Next-Generation Therapies
TS-072004 — Empower your pipeline with a versatile platform for efficient, customizable biomolecule transport.
Overview Intracellular delivery remains a persistent challenge in drug delivery, gene editing, and biotechnology. Pharmaceutical and biotech companies lose valuable opportunities when promising drugs and biologics cannot reach their intended targets inside cells, limiting product effectiveness and m…
  • College: College of Arts & Sciences
  • Inventors: Bong, Dennis
  • Licensing Officer: Panic, Ana

Quantum Defect-Based Ultra-Sensitive Radiation Detection Platform
TS-071847 — The Need Current fast neutron detection technologies suffer from inherently low sensitivity due to the limited interaction cross-section between neutrons and atomic nuclei. This restricts their effectiveness in critical applications such as nuclear security, radiation dosimetry, and advanced imaging…
  • College: College of Engineering (COE)
  • Inventors: Cao, Lei Raymond; Johnston-Halperin, Ezekiel; Shoen, Luke
  • Licensing Officer: Ashouripashaki, Mandana

Smart Blueberry Extract: The Modern Natural Health Solution for Inflammation Relief and Wellness
TS-071830 — Unlocking plant-powered solutions to deliver effective inflammation relief and enhance disease outcomes.
Overview Chronic inflammation driven by elevated interleukin-11 (IL-11) is a critical underlying cause of tissue scarring and cancer, worsening the disease outcomes over time. Current anti-inflammatory options fall short, offering limited control over IL-11 and failing to stop its persistent buildu…
  • College: College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES)
  • Inventors: Giusti, M. Monica; Prasher, Harmeen; Sellers, Patrick; Ziouzenkova, Ouliana
  • Licensing Officer: Panic, Ana

Reversible Shape-Changing Amorphous Polymers via Liquid Crystal Templating
TS-071745 — The Need Current two-way shape memory polymers (SMPs) require expensive, crystalline or liquid crystalline monomers and complex synthesis, limiting their use in cost-sensitive and biocompatible applications. Widely used amorphous polymers (e.g., polystyrene, PMMA) are inexpensive and common in con…
  • College: College of Engineering (COE)
  • Inventors: Wang, Xiaoguang "William"; Dupont, Robert; Zhang, Meng
  • Licensing Officer: Randhawa, Davinder

NeuroThread: Ultrathin Wire-Type Neurochemical Sensor for Real-Time CNS Monitoring
TS-071414 — The Need Current neurochemical monitoring technologies are limited by bulky form factors, complex fabrication, and invasiveness, which restrict their clinical and research utility. Existing sensors often cause tissue damage, lack real-time resolution, and are costly to manufacture, impeding widespre…
  • College: College of Engineering (COE)
  • Inventors: Li, Jinghua; Liu, Tzu Li
  • Licensing Officer: Ashouripashaki, Mandana

Instant Diagnostics, Anywhere
TS-070543 — A Platform for High-Throughput Biomarker Detection that is portable, fast, and requires minimal sample
The Need The diagnostics market is under increasing pressure to deliver faster, more reliable, and less invasive solutions, driven by growing global health challenges. Current technologies face critical limitations, including large sample requirements, labor-intensive workflows, and reliance on exp…
  • College: College of Arts & Sciences
  • Inventors: Badu-Tawiah, Abraham; Seth, Ayesha; Zerrudo, Stephanee
  • Licensing Officer: Panic, Ana

Method to Determine Tremor Frequency from Deep Brain Stimulation Signals
TS-070304 — The Need Current clinical methods for assessing tremor severity in patients with Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders rely heavily on subjective, qualitative observations, such as evaluating hand-drawn spirals or observing motor tasks. These approaches lack precision, are difficult…
  • College: College of Engineering (COE)
  • Inventors: Khan, Furrukh; Dalm, Brian; Novikov, David; Thomas, Evan; Zhao, Jessie
  • Licensing Officer: Randhawa, Davinder

Aerobiology Chamber for Pilot-scale Studies
TS-070103 — The Need Aerobiology chambers on the market today face several challenges, particularly in studying biohazardous aerosols and testing anti-bioaerosol agents. Large, room-sized chambers, while capable of mimicking indoor environments, are cumbersome to operate, require extensive decontamination, an…
  • College: College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES)
  • Inventors: Yousef, Ahmed; Ali, Mohamed; Kasler, David; Kwiek, Jesse; Sastry, Sudhir
  • Licensing Officer: Panic, Ana

Motion-Guided Deep Image Prior (M-DIP) for Dynamic Image Reconstruction in Cardiovascular MRI
TS-069527 — The Need Cardiovascular MRI (CMR) data acquisition is often time-consuming and relies on complex reconstruction methods that do not fully exploit the spatial and temporal structure of CMR data. There is a need for a more efficient, unsupervised approach that can accelerate CMR imaging while maintai…
  • College: College of Engineering (COE)
  • Inventors: Ahmad, Rizwan; Chen, Chong; Sultan, Muhammad
  • Licensing Officer: Randhawa, Davinder

A new modular format for bispecific antibody fragments
TS-068425 — Functionalization of scFvs with cyclic peptide linkers
The Need The high specificity of antibodies has been utilized to develop numerous technologies, tools and therapeutics, like ADCs and radiopharmaceuticals. Engineered antibody fragments like single-chain variable fragments (scFvs) are starting to see their way into the clinic in BiTEs and CAR T. Sc…
  • College: College of Arts & Sciences
  • Inventors: Magliery, Thomas; Do, Jamie; Han, Jeong Min "Mina"; Zhu, Ian
  • Licensing Officer: Panic, Ana

Noninvasive Rapid Radiation Exposure Assay
TS-068290 — The Need Radiation exposure poses significant health risks, including cancer and other illnesses, making it crucial for clinicians to accurately measure and assess the extent of radiation exposure. Existing methods often require invasive procedures and may not detect exposure at lower dose ranges. …
  • College: College of Arts & Sciences
  • Inventors: Schultz, Zachary; Jacob, Naduparambil; Morder, Courtney; Witte, Spencer
  • Licensing Officer: Panic, Ana

RAFT Agents for Controlled Radical Polymerization of Biofunctionalized Polymeric Materials
TS-068081 — These RAFT agents enable synthesis of novel polymer materials with enhanced biocompatibility and tailored functionality, suited for a wide range of biomedical applications.
Background The growing demand for biofunctionalized polymer materials in fields such as drug delivery and diagnostics requires precise control over polymer properties. However, current reagents for Reversible Addition Fragmentation chain Transfer (RAFT) polymerization struggle with achieving the ne…
  • College: College of Arts & Sciences
  • Inventors: Kulkarni, Anuja; Watkins, Davita
  • Licensing Officer: Panic, Ana

Wearable Coils for Monitoring Human Body Kinematics
TS-067943 — Monitoring human physiological functions and performance during real-time activities is becoming increasingly popular in sporting and healthcare environments. Many studies now suggest that the quantitative evaluation of kinetic parameters, joint range of motion, heart rate, and breathing rate can be…
  • College: College of Engineering (COE)
  • Inventors: Kiourti, Asimina; Mishra, Vigyanshu
  • Licensing Officer: Randhawa, Davinder

Non-Contact Magnetocardiography for Measuring Cognitive Workload
TS-067810 — Work environments and other brain-intensive activities impose high demands on the cognitive and cerebral resources required to process vast amounts of information. This high demand can expose individuals to cognitive overload, which can be dangerous for their health and lead to errors and accidents.…
  • College: College of Engineering (COE)
  • Inventors: Kiourti, Asimina; Zhu, Keren
  • Licensing Officer: Randhawa, Davinder

Neonatal Blood Vessel Locator for Vascular Access Procedures
TS-067796 — A handheld device for identifying preterm blood vessels in neonatal ICU.
Over 300,000 preterm births in the United States occur annually, representing 10.5% of all live births. Most preterm births occur spontaneously, but some result from medical conditions like infections or pregnancy complications requiring early labor induction or cesarean delivery. Common causes of p…
  • College: College of Engineering (COE)
  • Inventors: Metzler, Sandra; Bresolin, Alejandro; Crawford, Mackenzie; Fernandes, Siddharth; Hardin, Rene; Patel, Aarti; Richards, Hannah; Trainor, Dylan
  • Licensing Officer: Zinn, Ryan

Optimal and Pure Leaf Classification Trees for Machine Learning (ML) Decision-Making
TS-067550 — A method to improve the performance and accuracy of ML-based decision trees.
Decision trees are popular machine learning (ML) methods used in classification and regression problems, and they have numerous applications in the real world. Various industries use decision trees to help decide strategies, investments, and operations. In addition, they are used in healthcare to he…
  • College: College of Engineering (COE)
  • Inventors: Allen, Theodore "Ted"; Arrey, Evelyn; Booth, Matthew; Liu, Enhao; Mashayekhi, Medhi
  • Licensing Officer: Zinn, Ryan

Endoscopic additive manufacturing of conductors and wireless implants
TS-067045 — The Need Wireless implants with integrated antennas are highly desirable for diagnostic, therapeutic, and monitoring applications due to their ability to communicate directly with external devices. However, the need for major surgical incisions to implant these devices poses significant risks, incl…
  • College: College of Engineering (COE)
  • Inventors: Kiourti, Asimina; Dontha, Balaji; Hoelzle, David; Li, Jinghua; Moulod, Mohammad
  • Licensing Officer: Randhawa, Davinder

Dust Analysis: A Novel Approach to Monitoring Viral Spread
TS-066962 — The Need Viral disease surveillance (e.g. influenza, SARS-CoV-2) in high-risk settings faces several challenges, such as asymptomatic carriers, incomplete reporting, resource limitations, and delayed diagnosis of traditional swab test methods. These challenges could allow a virus to silently spread…
  • College: College of Engineering (COE)
  • Inventors: Dannemiller, Karen; Faith, Seth; Hull, Natalie; Nastasi, Nick; Renninger, Nicole
  • Licensing Officer: Ashouripashaki, Mandana

Color Correction System for Accurate Colorimetric Smartphone Measurements
TS-066957 — The Need Colorimetric tests and remote image analysis are used in a wide range of industrial and medical applications. Digital image-based measurements made with smartphones are a promising platform to quantify colors at low cost, but suffer from inconsistency and errors caused by lens quality, sen…
  • College: College of Engineering (COE)
  • Inventors: Dannemiller, Karen; Panescu, Jenny; Qin, Rongjun; Song, Shuang; Zhang, Guixiang
  • Licensing Officer: Ashouripashaki, Mandana

Humanized SSTR2 mAb and ADC to target SSTR2+ tumors
TS-066912 — Targeted humanized mAbs and ADCs for cancer treatment
The Liu Lab Dr. Xiaoguang “Margaret” Liu applies her industry experience (Lonza, Merck, and Life Technologies) in cell line and process development towards her lab’s focus on targeted anti-cancer therapies including monoclonal antibodies, antibody-drug conjugates, and gene therapi…
  • College: College of Engineering (COE)
  • Inventors: Liu, Xiaoguang "Margaret"; Zhou, Lufang
  • Licensing Officer: Schworer, Adam

Revolutionizing Corneal Repair: Advanced MG53-Based Treatment for Enhanced Ocular Health
TS-066878 — New and more effective treatments for corneal injuries.
Current treatments for corneal injuries often have side effects that can compromise vision, highlighting the need for a new method that enhances ocular tissue repair without such drawbacks. The Need Injuries to the cornea can lead to severe pain, infection, and vision loss due to scarring and abno…
  • College: College of Optometry
  • Inventors: Chandler, Heather; Ma, Jianjie; Tan, Tao; Zhu, Hua
  • Licensing Officer: Schultz, Teri

Small Molecule USP30 Inhibitors for the Treatment and Prevention of Cardiomyopathy
TS-066773 — The Need Cardiomyopathy, a disease of the heart muscle, poses significant public health challenges due to its diverse causes, symptoms, and potential complications, including heart failure and arrhythmias. With cardiomyopathy often induced by drugs, such as anthracyclines used in chemotherapy, ther…
  • College: College of Medicine (COM)
  • Inventors: Sun, Nuo; Krigman, Judith; Yang, Mingchong; Zhang, Ruohan
  • Licensing Officer: Willson, Christopher

Innovative Biomarker Technology for Detecting and Treating Endothelial Injury in Neurological Disorders
TS-066771 — Endothelial injury is a significant pathological mechanism underlying various neurological disorders, including neurodegenerative, neuroinflammatory, and cerebrovascular diseases. Current clinical and research settings lack reliable biomarkers to detect or measure endothelial injury in the human C…
  • College: College of Medicine (COM)
  • Inventors: Al Tarawneh, Rawan
  • Licensing Officer: Willson, Christopher

Cell-Penetrating Peptides: Revolutionizing Intracellular Delivery
TS-066751 — In the rapidly evolving field of biotechnology and pharmaceuticals, there is a critical need for efficient delivery mechanisms to transport therapeutic agents directly into cells. Traditional methods face challenges with membrane impermeability and degradation of therapeutic compounds, limiting th…
  • College: College of Arts & Sciences
  • Inventors: Pei, Dehua
  • Licensing Officer: Dahlman, Jason "Jay"

Innovative Small Molecule Inhibitors for Effective Treatment and Prevention of Coronavirus Infections
TS-066750 — The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, has significantly impacted global health and economies. Despite vaccine efforts, issues such as vaccine hesitancy, delays in distribution, and emerging variants have highlighted the need for effective therapeutic interventions. These i…
  • College: College of Veterinary Medicine
  • Inventors: Sharma, Amit; Li, Pui-Kai "Tom"; Xing, Enming
  • Licensing Officer: Willson, Christopher

MG53: Enhancing Tissue Performance and Repairing Damaged Tissue
TS-066191 — , T2019-164, T2020-002, T2020-159, T2020-222: Using rhMG53 to treat conditions involving damaged tissue, including corneal repair, hepatic tissue injury, inflammatory bowel disease, and other tissue injury.
The Need While MG53 is naturally present in skeletal and cardiac muscle, its levels are often insufficient to optimize tissue performance. Current treatments leveraging exogenous MG53 are therapeutically ineffective for conditions like multiple sclerosis, viral infections, radiation-induced tissue …
  • College: College of Medicine (COM)
  • Inventors: Ma, Jianjie; Tan, Tao; Zhu, Hua
  • Licensing Officer: Schultz, Teri

Innovative Solutions for Cell Viability and Targeted Delivery
TS-066100 — Research tool to transfect cells ex vivo using electroporation through electrospun core-shell fibers for research applications
The Need: Conventional electroporation methods often result in low cell viability due to heat generation, especially when working with primary cells. These methods also face challenges with non-specific transport of molecules, high vector integration rates leading to mutagenesis, and inefficacy in …
  • College: College of Engineering (COE)
  • Inventors: Gallego Perez, Daniel; Das, Devleena; Duarte Sanmiguel, Silvia; Higuita Castro, Natalia
  • Licensing Officer: Willson, Christopher

T-cells with Enhanced Ability to Respond to Exogenous Ligands
TS-066052 — Novel T-cells expressing the IL-2a receptor to enhance cancer cell targeting.
The Need As interest in cell-based therapies, particularly for cancer treatment, continues to rise, there’s a critical need for therapeutic cells capable of robust proliferation in vivo. Existing methods relying on exogenous cytokines like IL-2 face challenges due to dose-limiting toxicity an…
  • College: OSU Wexner Medical Center
  • Inventors: Rubinstein, Mark
  • Licensing Officer: Willson, Christopher

Novel Antibodies Targeting IL-2
TS-066051 — Novel antibodies targeting IL-2 with the ability to inhibit IL-2 signaling through IL-2 Rαβg to a greater extent than through IL-2 Rβg.
IL-2 and its receptor IL-2R are known to play multiple roles in shaping the immune response, including both immune activation and tolerance. Expression of intermediate-affinity IL-2 receptors by different immune cell subsets determines cellular sensitivity to IL-2. However, the dynamic interplay bet…
  • College: OSU Wexner Medical Center
  • Inventors: Rubinstein, Mark
  • Licensing Officer: Willson, Christopher

Gene Therapy Approach for Treating Neuropathy
TS-065913 — Gene therapy strategies for treating peripheral neuropathy.
Peripheral neuropathy (PN) results in loss of innervation by the peripheral nerves in tissues such as skin, muscle, heart, and adipose tissue. It is a painful, debilitating disease, that is estimated to affect between 20 and 30 million Americans. The number of Americans affected by PN is likely muc…
  • College: College of Medicine (COM)
  • Inventors: Townsend, Kristy; Blaszkiewicz, Magdalena; Cao, Lei
  • Licensing Officer: Willson, Christopher

System for automated high-speed imaging and genetic manipulation of C. elegans on agar media
TS-065892 — The Need The microscopic worm C. elegans is a model animal studied in more than 1500 biological and medical research laboratories worldwide due to its genetic manipulability and optical transparency. In C. elegans research, the manual process of picking worms between plates presents a significant …
  • College: College of Engineering (COE)
  • Inventors: Fang-Yen, Christopher "Chris"; Alhalbi, Serge; Li, Zihao
  • Licensing Officer: Randhawa, Davinder

Method for sensitizing solid tumors to immunotherapy
TS-065862 — The Need In the landscape of cancer treatment, the emergence of immunotherapy has shown remarkable promise. However, its efficacy is not universal across all cancer types, and resistance development poses a significant challenge. Hyperprogression, characterized by accelerated tumor growth, further …
  • College: College of Arts & Sciences
  • Inventors: Kural, Comert; Djakbarova, Umidahan
  • Licensing Officer: Wilburn, Adri

IDEAS: Revolutionizing Early Childhood Education with Automated Interaction Analysis
TS-065825 — The Need: In early childhood education settings, understanding children's interactions, both social and linguistic, is paramount for effective teaching and development monitoring. However, manual observation and analysis of these interactions can be time-consuming and subjective, hindering educa…
  • College: College of Education & Human Ecology
  • Inventors: Gonzalez Villasanti, Hugo "Hugo"; Justice, Laura
  • Licensing Officer: Dahlman, Jason "Jay"

Targeting Telomerase to Treat Ocular Neovascular Disorders
TS-065809 — Therapeutic strategies for treating ocular neovascular disorders by targeting telomerase.
Choroidal neovascularization (CNV) is the principal driver of blindness in neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nvAMD). Abnormal blood vessel growth beneath the macular leads to retinal damage and severe vision loss. Discovering the involvement of VEGF in the underlying mechanisms driving …
  • College: College of Medicine (COM)
  • Inventors: Kerur, Nagaraj
  • Licensing Officer: Willson, Christopher

Treating Diabetes, Obesity, and Cardiovascular Disease by Reprogramming Skin
TS-065789 — Using tissue nano-transfection to reprogram skin cells to treat diabetes, obesity and/or cardiovascular health
The incidence of obesity and diabetes is skyrocketing, leading to chronic inflammatory conditions such as cardiovascular disease, autoimmune diseases, liver diseases, and cancer. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death across the US and worldwide and affects almost half of all ad…
  • College: College of Medicine (COM)
  • Inventors: Gallego Perez, Daniel; Higuita Castro, Natalia; Sen, Chandan
  • Licensing Officer: Willson, Christopher

Revolutionizing Cancer Immunotherapy with Novel Chimeric B-cell Epitope Peptide Vaccines
TS-065697 — Chimeric B-cell epitope peptide vaccines targeting human PD-L1 and/or CTLA-4 to induce immune response against the PD-1/PD-L1 signaling pathway.
The emergence of immune checkpoint inhibitors revolutionized cancer immunotherapy. Monoclonal antibodies targeting PD-1, PD-L1 and CTLA-4 have shown impressive clinical outcomes. The Need Despite their effectiveness, current monoclonal antibody treatments have limitations such as low response ra…
  • College: College of Medicine (COM)
  • Inventors: Kaumaya, Pravin
  • Licensing Officer: Willson, Christopher

Novel Therapeutic Approach to Treating Painful Musculoskeletal Disorders
TS-065684 — Non-viral gene therapy for minimally invasively treating painful musculoskeletal disorders
Painful musculoskeletal disorders like intervertebral disc (IVD) degeneration associated with chronic low back pain (DBP) present a significant socio-economic burden worldwide. The Need Current treatments for painful musculoskeletal disorders offer only temporary relief or invasive surgical proce…
  • College: College of Engineering (COE)
  • Inventors: Walter, Devina; Gallego Perez, Daniel; Higuita Castro, Natalia; Khan, Safdar; Tang, Shirley "Shirley Nina"; Walter, Benjamin
  • Licensing Officer: Willson, Christopher

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