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
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
Addressing the Challenges in HCC Treatment with Innovative Technology
TS-062690 — Novel niclosamide analogues with improved bioavailabi
lity and mitigated dose-
limiting toxicities.
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) poses a significant global health challenge, being a predominant form of liver cancer with high mortality rates. The disease exhibits sexual dimorphism, disproportionately affecting males.
The Need
Despite the crucial role of androgen receptors (AR) in HCC progress…
- College: College of Pharmacy
- Inventors: Coss, Christopher; Cheng, Jeffrey; Cheng, Xiaolin; Kulp, Samuel; Li, Tom; Montgomery, Emma; Xing, Enming
- Licensing Officer: Willson, Christopher
Transducin β-like protein 1 X-Linked Selective Degraders as Anti-cancer Therapeutics
TS-062685 — Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide, accounting for nearly 10 million deaths in 2020, or nearly one in six deaths. The most common cancers are breast, lung, colon and rectum and prostate cancers.
The Need
Current cancer treatments mainly rely on chemotherapy, radiation, surgery and bon…
- College: College of Pharmacy
- Inventors: Cheng, Xiaolin; Alinari, Lapo; Li, Pui-Kai "Tom"; Yang, Rui
- Licensing Officer: Willson, Christopher
Advanced AAV Gene Therapy Characterization Technique
TS-062608 — Gene therapy is an emerging technology that replaces a faulty gene or adds a new gene to cure disease or improve your body's ability to fight infection. These next-generation treatments hold promise for treating various genetic and chronic conditions, including but not limited to cancer, cystic …
- College: College of Arts & Sciences
- Inventors: Wysocki, Vicki; Cleary, Sean; Du, Chen
- Licensing Officer: Dahlman, Jason "Jay"
Dual Androgen Receptor/AKR1C3 Inhibitors for Prostate Cancer
TS-062605 — The Need:
Castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) poses a significant challenge in oncology, with existing therapies often leading to resistance and disease progression. Key drivers of resistance include the androgen receptor (AR) and aldo-keto reductase family 1 member C3 (AKR1C3). Novel treat…
- College: College of Pharmacy
- Inventors: Li, Pui-Kai "Tom"; Cheng, Xiaolin; Kong, Xiaotian; Xing, Enming
- Licensing Officer: Schworer, Adam
AI-Enabled Retrosynthesis for Drug Development
TS-060092 — AI methods and systems for predicting reactants and their synthesis paths to support drug design and chemical synthesis.
A time-consuming and costly step in drug development is the identification of drug-like small molecules that display desired properties against a specific biomolecular target and then the synthesis of such molecules if they do not exist. Retrosynthesis is a procedure where such a desired molecule i…
- College: College of Medicine (COM)
- Inventors: Ning, Xia; Chen, Ziqi
- Licensing Officer: Hampton, Andrew
An improved base editor (iABE-NG) for correcting genetic diseases such as Duchenne muscular dystrophy
TS-049505 — An engineered base editor (iABE-NG) that uses an SpCas9 variant, a shortened adenine deaminase domain with e
liminated RNA off-target activity, and an intein sp
lit for packaging into an adeno-associated virus (AAV), resulting in gene mutation correction.
There are thousands of monogenic diseases that are lacking effective therapeutic treatments. The main bottleneck in developing effective treatment is the ability to effectively edit gene while controlling for the myriad of off-target effects that come with targeting the genome. Duchenne Muscular D…
- College: College of Medicine (COM)
- Inventors: Han, Renzhi; Gao, Yandi; Xu, Li
- Licensing Officer: Schworer, Adam
Automated Detection of Tumor Budding in Colorectal Cancer
TS-039267 — A non-invasive and automated tumor budding image analysis system for colorectal cancer. This program can detect tumor buds in traditional H&E stained sections without the need for manual assessment.
Colorectal cancer is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer in the United States. With a survival rate of less than 65%, early detection and treatment are key factors in survival. Tumor budding, associated with higher tumor stage, lymph node metastasis, and decreased disease-free survival, has e…
- College: College of Medicine (COM)
- Inventors: Gurcan, Metin; Ahmad Fauzi, Mohammad Faizal; Chen, Wei "Wei"; Frankel, Wendy
- Licensing Officer: Hampton, Andrew
Perivascular Drug Delivery Nanoplatform for Preventing Restenosis After Open Surgery
TS-039004 — Pericelle: a nanoparticle based perivascular drug de
livery system to prevent stenosis and failure in vascular reconstruction surgeries.
Imaging and re-intervention procedures, necessary to maintain open blood vessels following vascular reconstruction surgery, are expensive. For example, the cost of maintenance for an arteriovenous (AV) fistula used in hemodialysis access has been estimated at $15,000/year. In bypass and AV fistula…
- College: College of Medicine (COM)
- Inventors: Kent, K. Craig; Chen, Guojun; Gong, Shaoqin; Guo, Lianwang; Shi, Xudong
- Licensing Officer: Taysavang, Panya
LLL12b: a novel STAT3 inhibitor to treat MS and other autoimmune and inflammatory diseases
TS-038701 —
Modality: Small-molecule prodrug that targets the IL-6/STAT3 signaling pathway
Stage of Development: Extensive in vitro and in vivo efficacy (3 MS models, incl. relapsing-remitting EAE); preliminary safety
Patent Status: Pat. no. 11,420,946 (US); appl. 17/821,286 (US); appl. 18860926.7 (EP); app…
- College: College of Medicine (COM)
- Inventors: Yang, Yuhong; Li, Chenglong; Racke, Michael
- Licensing Officer: He, Panqing
Novel Small-Molecule Integrin-linked Kinase/Phosphoinositide-dependent Protein Kinase-2 Inhibitors
TS-037647 — A novel set of molecules that inhibit integrin-
linked kinase in order to suppress tumor cell growth and metastasis.
The Akt signaling pathway is responsible for apoptosis, cell proliferation, and metabolism. In tumor cells, this pathway is up-regulated and aids in promoting cancer cell survival. Complete activation of Akt pathway requires phosphorylation at two amino-acid residues, which are phosporylated by se…
- College: College of Pharmacy
- Inventors: Chen, Ching-Shih; Kulp, Samuel; Lee, Su-Lin
- Licensing Officer: Taysavang, Panya
Development of STAT3 dimerization inhibitors for cancers
TS-037569 —
The constant activation of Signal Transducer and Activator of Transcription 3 (STAT3) is frequently detected in many cancer patients with advanced diseases. About 80% of all cancers overexpress STAT3, including solid tumors, lymphoma, and leukemia. Constant activation of STAT3 activities in nonmal…
- College: College of Pharmacy
- Inventors: Li, Pui-Kai "Tom"; Li, Chenglong; Lin, Jiayuh
- Licensing Officer: He, Panqing
Biomimetic Nanoplatform to Deliver Anti-Restenotic Therapeutics
TS-036654 — A stent-free de
livery platform for reducing arterial plaques.
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, resulting in more than 600,000 deaths and a significant contributor to overall healthcare costs. Over 28 million Americans are diagnosed with heart disease and contribute more than $30 billion in healthcare-related expenses. …
- College: College of Medicine (COM)
- Inventors: Kent, K. Craig; Chen, Guojun; Gong, Shaoqin; Guo, Lianwang; Urabe, Go; Wang, Bowen
- Licensing Officer: Bhatti, Hamid
Small Molecule AR-Ablative Agents
TS-014842 — A new strategy for using androgen receptor ablative agents has been developed for prostate cancer therapy.
Hormone-refractory prostate cancer is incurable, and patients with this disease have few treatment options. Dysregulation of the androgen receptor (AR) is a hallmark of this incurable cancer. Molecular changes during cancer enhance AR sensitivity or permit AR activation by antiestrogen so that pro…
- College: College of Pharmacy
- Inventors: Chen, Ching-Shih; Wang, Dasheng; Yang, Jian
- Licensing Officer: Taysavang, Panya
Novel Indole-3-Carbinol-Derived Antitumor Agents
TS-014815 — An anti-tumor agent developed from indol-3-carbinol, a naturally occurring phytochemical in cruciferous vegetables.
According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, cancer is the second leading cause of death in the US at approximately 600,000 deaths per year. In addition, the National Cancer Institute estimates that nearly 1.7 million cases of cancer are diagnosed each year. A report from U.S. News …
- College: College of Pharmacy
- Inventors: Chen, Ching-Shih; Weng, Jing-ru
- Licensing Officer: Taysavang, Panya
Novel Protein Kinase C Delta Activators
TS-014754 — A novel anti-cancer agent (OSU-2S) that is devoid of S1P1 receptor activity and is highly effective in suppressing hepatocellular carcinoma tumor growth in vivo.
The third leading cause of cancer death worldwide is hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Due to the rise in the incidence of hepatitis C virus infection, HCC is expected to increase in the United States. Many patients with HCC are not candidates for surgery because of the location or size of their tum…
- College: College of Pharmacy
- Inventors: Chen, Ching-Shih; Byrd, John; Kulp, Samuel; Muthusamy, Natarajan; Wang, Dasheng
- Licensing Officer: Taysavang, Panya
Glucose Transporter Inhibitors (GLUT1 Inhibitors)
TS-014734 — A potential cancer treatment that suppresses the abi
lity for cancer cells to intake glucose, thereby hampering cancer cell production.
A fundamental property of neoplastic cells is the shift in cellular metabolism from oxidative phosphorylation to aerobic glycolysis. This glycolytic shift, called the Warburg effect, enables cancer cells to adapt to low-oxygen microenvironments, to generate biosynthetic building blocks for cell pr…
- College: College of Pharmacy
- Inventors: Chen, Ching-Shih; Kulp, Samuel; Wang, Dasheng
- Licensing Officer: Taysavang, Panya