“Building on Foundations of Innovation”
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
“Building on
Foundations of Innovation”
For the fifth anniversary meeting, we celebrate the American spirit
of ingenuity with the theme “Building on Foundations of Innovation.”
Throughout the conference program, we will explore the interaction
between our nation’s history of change and today’s modern culture
and future of innovation.
The conference program cover artwork features the Lincoln Memorial, chosen to honor the 16th President of the United States and only
president to date to hold an issued U.S. patent.
Welcome Letter from the NAI President........... 2
Summary Conference Agenda............................ 3
Detailed Conference Agenda...........................4-9
About the NAI.................................................... 10
NAI Board of Directors & Officers.................. 11
Conference Program Committee..................... 11
NAI Federal Charter.......................................... 12
Q & A About H.R. 849....................................... 13
Elected 2015 NAI Fellows................................. 14
Presenter & Speaker Biographies............... 15-28
Meet the NAI Staff........................................ 29-30
Sustaining Member Institutions................. 31-32
Member Institution Representatives.......... 33-35
Maps of Conference Venue Locations....... 36-38
Thank you to Our Sponsors........................ 39-44
Fellows Congratulatory Ads........................ 45-54
Common Abbreviations.................................... 57
Technology & Innovation................................... 58
On May 22, 1849, Abraham Lincoln received Patent No. 6469 for a
device to lift boats over shoals. He praised the patent laws for having
“secured to the inventor, for a limited time, the exclusive use of his
invention; and thereby added the fuel of interest to the fire of genius,
in the discovery and production of new and useful things.” The scale
model is currently on display at the Smithsonian National Museum
of American History and location of the NAI Conference Signature
Reception on April 15, 2016.
As we look to embark on a new era of technological and scientific
advancement, we remember the trailblazers who laid the groundwork for sustained innovation, and build upon that foundation into
the future.
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FROM THE PRESIDENT
Distinguished Colleagues:
On behalf of the Board of Directors, it is my distinct pleasure to welcome you to Washington D.C., for the fifth annual meeting of the National Academy of Inventors. I am honored to gather with all of you for this compelling conference highlighting
our nation’s innovative history.
The program we have for you this year is an exciting one. First and foremost, we want to thank our sponsors and host institutions for their support which makes this annual meeting possible. We are grateful to our presenters, panelists and co-chairs,
and to the Conference Program Committee for their hard work, and it is a pleasure to welcome Emery Brown, Cristin Dorgelo
and Victor Dzau as our featured keynote speakers. We are equally honored to have Andrew Hirshfeld, U.S. Commissioner
for Patents for the USPTO, as our keynote speaker for the NAI Fellows Induction Ceremony. Lastly, we thank you for being
here. The success of our annual conference would not be possible without all of our engaged members, partners and friends.
This past year has been one of accomplishment and recognition for the NAI. On Friday, at the Fellows Induction Ceremony,
we will celebrate the signing of a Memorandum of Agreement, established with our valued partner, the United States Patent
and Trademark Office. The MOA will allow the NAI and USPTO to continue to strengthen the initiatives on which we collaborate, including projects to enrich education outreach, inventor honors and awards, and programs relating to intellectual
property in academia.
For the third consecutive year, the NAI and the Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) released the Top 100 Worldwide Universities Granted U.S. Utility Patents. Based on data obtained from the USPTO, the list recognizes the important
role patents play in university research and economic development. We are also proud to unveil a new design for the NAI
journal, Technology and Innovation (T&I). The NAI has held editorial control of the journal for the past six years and, beginning with Volume 18 in 2016, we are delighted to announce that the NAI is now owner and publisher of the journal. Invited
papers from this conference will be published in T&I. Each issue contains an article submitted by the USPTO, along with
a new feature, the NAI Fellow Profile.
We continue to build strong connections with federal legislators, who annually recognize our NAI Fellows in the Congressional Record and have submitted legislation in support of the NAI receiving a Congressional Charter known as H.R. 849.
If your state’s delegation has not yet signed on as co-sponsors, NAI staff will be happy to assist with this and we hope you
will support this important initiative.
This year’s conference culminates with the induction of our fourth class of NAI Fellows. Last December, our distinguished
Fellows Selection Committee elected 168 innovators to NAI Fellow status. These prolific individuals represent 108 prestigious
research universities and non-profit research institutes and collectively hold nearly 5,400 U.S. patents. With the induction
of the 2015 class, there are now more than 80 presidents and senior leaders of research universities and non-profit research
institutes, 310 members of the other National Academies, 27 inductees of the National Inventors Hall of Fame, 36 recipients of the U.S. National Medal of Technology and Innovation and U.S. National Medal of Science, 27 Nobel Laureates, 14
Lemelson-MIT prize recipients, and 170 AAAS Fellows, among other awards and distinctions.
Thank you for being part of the National Academy of Inventors. We applaud your accomplishments and look forward to
another exciting year. Have a great meeting.
Sincerely,
Paul R. Sanberg, Ph.D., D.Sc., FNAI
President
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SUMMARY AGENDA
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 2016
4:00 – 7:00 PM
5:00 – 9:00 PM
7:00 – 9:00 PM
NAI Board of Directors Meeting (Invitation Only)
Early Conference Check-In
President’s Welcome Reception (All Invited to Attend)
THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 2016
8:00 AM – 4:00 PM Conference Check-In and Information Table
9:00 – 9:10 AM Opening General Session
9:10 – 11:30 AM Session A: Changing the Innovation Culture
9:40 – 10:20 AM Keynote Address by Emery N. Brown, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
10:20 – 10:45 AM State of the Academy Address by NAI President Paul R. Sanberg
10:45 – 11:30 AM Panel 1: Invention is Not an Option
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM Buses depart hotel for offsite lunch at George Washington University (GW)
12:00 – 1:00 PM Networking Lunch Buffet and Tours at GW Science and Engineering Hall
1:00 – 1:30 PM Buses depart GW for hotel
1:30 – 2:00 PM Break
2:00 – 4:00 PM Session B: Transformative Technologies
2:30 – 3:20 PM Panel 2: Building Paths to Commercialization for Student Entrepreneurs: Exploring
Challenges and Opportunities for Post-University Support
3:20 – 4:00 PM Keynote Address by Victor J. Dzau, National Academy of Medicine
4:00 – 6:00 PM Break
6:00 – 6:30 PM Buses depart hotel for Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History
6:30 – 7:00 PM Cocktail Reception at Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History
*Dress for this event is Black Tie
7:00 – 10:00 PM Signature Reception Gala: A History of American Innovation
9:00 – 10:00 PM Buses depart the museum for hotel
FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 2016
7:30 – 8:30 AM
8:00 – 11:00 AM
9:00 – 9:15 AM
9:15 – 9:50 AM
9:50 – 11:20 AM
10:35 – 11:20 AM
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM
12:00 – 1:00 PM
12:00 – 1:30 PM
1:00 – 1:45 PM
1:45 – 2:00 PM
2:00 – 4:00 PM
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
3:30 – 4:30 PM
Technology and Innovation Editorial Board Breakfast & Meeting (Invitation Only)
Conference Check-In and Information Table
Opening General Session
Keynote Address by Cristin A. Dorgelo, White House Office of Science and
Technology Policy
Session C: Entrepreneurship Drives Invention Forward
Panel 3: Managing Risk in Academic Innovation
Buses depart hotel for the United States Patent and Trademark Office
Fellows Luncheon at USPTO Auditorium
Late Conference Check-In and Information Table (at the Athenaeum)
Keynote Address by Andrew H. Hirshfeld, Commissioner for Patents, USPTO
Signing Ceremony by Russell D. Slifer, Deputy Director, USPTO
Induction Ceremony of 2015 Fellows
2015 Fellows Photograph
Conference Ends
Buses depart the USPTO for hotel from the Eisenhower Entrance (Atrium Level)
4:30 – 6:30 PM
6:00 & 6:30 PM
NAI Fellows Reception at the Global Intellectual Property Academy (Invitation Only)
Buses leave USPTO for Grand Hyatt Washington
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DETAILED
AGENDA
W E DN E SDAY, A PR I L 13, 2016
Note: Dress is Business Attire
4:00 – 7:00 PM NAI Board of Directors Meeting (Invitation Only)
Location: Washington Board Room, Constitution Level
Grand Hyatt Washington
1000 H St. NW, Washington, DC 20001
5:00 – 9:00 PM Early Conference Check-in
Location: Grand Foyer, Declaration Level
Grand Hyatt Washington
7:00 – 9:00 PM President’s Welcome Reception (All Invited to Attend)
Location: Grand Foyer, Declaration Level
Grand Hyatt Washington
T H U RSDAY, A PR I L 14, 2016
Note: Dress is Business Attire with the exception of the Black Tie Signature Reception Gala.
Complimentary Wi-Fi is available in the Meeting Room.
Choose Wireless Network “Hyatt Meeting” and enter Access Code “NAI2016.”
8:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Conference Check-In and Information Table
Location: Constitution Ballroom A-B Foyer, Constitution Level
Grand Hyatt Washington
1000 H St. NW, Washington, DC 20001
9:00 – 9:10 AM
Opening General Session
Paul R. Sanberg, National Academy of Inventors
9:10 – 11:30 AM
SESSION A: THE CHANGING INNOVATION CULTURE
Location: Constitution Ballroom A-B, Constitution Level
Grand Hyatt Washington
9:10 – 9:25 AM
Florence P. Haseltine, National Institute of Health
“Why” vs. “What”
9:25 – 9:40 AM
Robert E. Fischell, University of Maryland
Innovation for Humanity
Session Co-Chairs:
Andrew B. Holmes, The University of Melbourne
John M. Mason, Jr., Auburn University
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9:40 – 10:20 AM Keynote Address
The Dynamics of the Unconscious Brain Under General Anesthesia
Introduction of the Keynote Speaker
Mohsen Shahinpoor, University of Maine
Keynote Address
Emery N. Brown, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering and Computational Neuroscience
NAI Fellow
10:20 – 10:45 AM
State of the Academy Address
Paul R. Sanberg, National Academy of Inventors
10:45 – 11:30 AM
PANEL 1: INVENTION IS NOT AN OPTION
Invited Panel hosted by the AAAS-Lemelson Invention Ambassadors
Moderator:
Yolanda L. Comedy, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Panelists:
Karen J.L. Burg, University of Georgia
Juan E. Gilbert, University of Florida
Suzie H. Pun, University of Washington
Michael A. Smith, Intel Corporation
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Buses depart for Offsite Lunch at George Washington University
Buses depart hotel from 10th Street entrance
12:00 – 1:00 PM
Networking Lunch (Buffet) and Tours
Location: George Washington University – Science and Engineering Hall
Lehman Auditorium, 800 22nd St. NW, Washington, DC
(Entrance between I Street NW and H Street NW)
Host Remarks by:
Nelson A. Carbonell, George Washington University
12:15, 12:30 &
12:45 PM
15-Minute Tours Available for the Networking Luncheon at GW
The Micro-propulsion and Nanotechnology Lab, 3rd Floor, Room 3001
Micro-propulsion for micro and nanosatellites, plasma medicine, and plasma
nanoscience and nanotechnology. A micro-cathode plasma arc thruster
developed in this lab was launched into space in May 2015 and has been success-
fully used to propel a miniature satellite.
Vertes Research Group, 6th Floor, Room 6290
Fundamental studies in analytical and physical chemistry, and the development
of new technologies for biomedical analysis. Accomplishments include metabolic imaging of biological tissues under native conditions and the in situ mass spectro-
metric analysis of single cells.
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The Dowd Lab, 4th Floor, Room 4490
Synthetic organic chemistry creating and evaluating molecules against specific
biochemical targets and intact pathogenic organisms including Tuberculosis and
Malaria. Dowd recently received a $2.6 million NIH grant to study treatment for Malaria and Tuberculosis.
1:00 – 1:30 PM
Buses depart GW and return to Conference Hotel
1:30 – 2:00 PM
Break
2:00 – 4:00 PM
SESSION B: TRANSFORMATIVE TECHNOLOGIES
Location: Constitution Ballroom A-B, Constitution Level
Grand Hyatt Washington
Session Co-Chairs:
Alyssa Panitch, Purdue University
Stephen D. Russell, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command
2:00 – 2:15 PM
Katrina Cornish, The Ohio State University
Home-grown Rubber
2:15 – 2:30 PM
Kristina M. Johnson, Cube Hydro Partners, University of Colorado Boulder
The Role of Color Separation in the Making of 3DTV and Movies
2:30 – 3:20 PM
PANEL 2: BUILDING PATHS TO COMMERCIALIZATION FOR STUDENT ENTREPRENEURS: EXPLORING CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR POST-UNIVERSITY SUPPORT
Invited Panel hosted by The Lemelson Foundation
Moderator:
Graham M. Pugh, The Lemelson Foundation
Panelists:
Soumyadipta Acharya, Johns Hopkins University
Dan E. Azagury, Stanford University
Pratik Patel, Glyscend Inc.
Joseph Steig, Long River Ventures
3:20 – 4:00 PM
Keynote Address
Bench to Bedside to Population: A Journey of Innovation
Introduction of the Keynote Speaker
Kristi S. Anseth, University of Colorado Boulder
Keynote Address
Victor J. Dzau, President of the National Academy of Medicine
Professor of Medicine and Pathology, Duke University
NAI Fellow
4:00 – 6:00 PM
Break before Dinner
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6:00 – 6:30 PM
Buses depart the hotel for offsite Dinner Reception at the
Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History
Buses depart from 10th Street entrance
Dress for this event is Black Tie
6:30 – 7:00 PM
Pre-Dinner Cocktail Reception
Location: Flag Hall, Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History,
Enter from Madison Drive between 12th and 14th Streets, NW
7:00 – 10:00 PM
Signature Reception Gala: A HISTORY OF AMERICAN INNOVATION
Location: Innovation Wing (first floor)
Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History
Welcome Remarks by:
Arthur Daemmrich, Smithsonian Institution
Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation
Paul R. Sanberg, National Academy of Inventors
Graham M. Pugh, The Lemelson Foundation
9:00 – 10:00 PM
Buses return to hotel
Buses depart Smithsonian from Constitution Avenue circle driveway on the first floor of the museum
F RIDAY, A PR I L 15, 2016
Note: Dress is Business Attire.
Complimentary Wi-Fi is available in the Meeting Room.
Choose Wireless Network “Hyatt Meeting” and enter Access Code “NAI2016.”
7:30 – 8:30 AM
Technology & Innovation, Journal of the National Academy of Inventors
Editorial Board Breakfast and Meeting (Invitation Only)
Location: Penn Quarter A, Declaration Level
Grand Hyatt Washington
1000 H St. NW, Washington, DC 20001
8:00 – 11:00 AM
Conference Check-In and Information Table
Location: Constitution Ballroom A-B Foyer, Constitution Level
Grand Hyatt Washington
9:00 – 9:15 AM
Opening General Session
Paul R. Sanberg, National Academy of Inventors
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9:15 – 9:50 AM
Keynote Address
Catalyzing Innovation to Address Grand Challenges
Introduction of the Keynote Speaker
Nicholas A. Peppas, The University of Texas at Austin
Keynote Speaker
Cristin A. Dorgelo, Chief of Staff
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
9:50 – 11:20 AM
SESSION C: ENTREPRENEURSHIP DRIVES INVENTION FORWARD
Location: Constitution Ballroom A-B, Constitution Level
Grand Hyatt Washington
Session Co-Chairs:
Patrick G. O’Shea, University of Maryland
Helena S. Wisniewski, University of Alaska Anchorage
9:50 – 10:05 AM
Mir Imran, University of Pittsburgh
Innovation, Invention and Entrepreneurial Thinking
10:05 – 10:20 AM
Ray H. Baughman, The University of Texas at Dallas
The Living Platform Theory of Invention Spawns Powerful Artificial Muscles
10:20 – 10:35 AM
Chenming C. Hu, University of California, Berkeley
Taking Semiconductor Technology to a New Dimension – 3D Transistor
10:35 – 11:20 AM
PANEL 3: MANAGING RISK IN ACADEMIC INNOVATION
Invited Panel of Senior University Leadership
Moderator:
Elizabeth Langdon-Gray, Harvard University
Panelists:
Delos M. Cosgrove, Cleveland Clinic
Alan W. Cramb, Illinois Institute of Technology
Stephen K. Klasko, Thomas Jefferson University
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Buses depart hotel for U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Buses depart hotel from 10th Street entrance
12:00 – 1:00 PM
NAI Fellows Luncheon
Location: Auditorium, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Madison Building
600 Dulany Street, Alexandria, VA 22314 (Buses arrive at Eisenhower Entrance)
(Parking is available in the East Garage – follow signs)
1:00 – 1:45 PM
Fellows Keynote Address
Introduction of the Keynote Speaker
Elizabeth L. Dougherty, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Fellows Keynote Address
Andrew H. Hirshfeld, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Commissioner for Patents
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1:45 – 2:00 PM
Signing Ceremony
Russell D. Slifer, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property
and Deputy Director
2:00 – 4:00 PM
Induction Ceremony of the Elected 2015 NAI Fellows
4:00 PM
2015 Fellows Photograph
Immediately following the induction on the Dulany Entrance Stairway
4:00 PM
Conference Ends
3:30 – 4:30 PM
Buses will depart the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for the Grand Hyatt Washington immediately following the Fellows Induction Ceremony between 3:30 and 4:30 PM from the Eisenhower Entrance (Atrium Level)
4:30 – 6:30 PM
NAI Fellows Reception (Invitation Only)
Location: The Global Intellectual Property Academy, USPTO
6:00 & 6:30 PM
Buses depart the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for the Grand Hyatt
Washington immediately following the Fellows Reception at approximately
6:00 and 6:30 PM from the Dulany Entrance (Lower Atrium Level)
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•
About the National Academy of Inventors •
The National Academy of Inventors® is a 501(c)(3) non-profit member organization comprising U.S. and international universities, and governmental and non-profit research institutions, with over 3,000 individual inventor members and Fellows spanning more than 200 institutions, and growing rapidly. It was founded in 2010 to
recognize and encourage inventors with patents issued from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, enhance
the visibility of academic technology and innovation, encourage the disclosure of intellectual property, educate
and mentor innovative students, and translate the inventions of its members to benefit society. The NAI publishes the multidisciplinary journal Technology and Innovation, Journal of the National Academy of Inventors.
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AND OBJECTIVES
G OAGOALS
L S A ND
OBJECT I VES
•
• To recognize publicly a cadre of investigators who are also inventors.
• To enhance visibility of university and non-profit research institute technology development, pro mote entrepreneurship and be advocates for academic innovation in the local community.
• To be a resource for the local community to facilitate greater industry research contracts and inter-
actions with companies and organizations in order to increase economic impact.
• To increase awareness of intellectual property by mentoring, fostering and encouraging faculty,
staff and students to develop their intellectual property and inventions.
• To help shape society by being in a position to understand the translational use of inventions at the
university or research institute and elsewhere; and to be a role model in such endeavors for students.
• To develop relevant invention-based activities in collaboration with the institution’s administration
of patents and licensing.
As the Academy grows and develops, we will continue to seek new ways to recognize and honor academic
invention, provide unique opportunities for our Member Institutions, and build strong relationships with
innovative groups and companies. There is no doubt that translational technology is critically important;
it is the engine that will drive the economies of the 21st century. Our research institutions are growing and
through their capabilities, we see a limitless future for our nation and the world.
www.Academyofinventors.org
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2016 NAI Board of Directors and Officers •
Paul R. Sanberg, President, University of South Florida
George R. Newkome, Vice President, The University of Akron
Howard J. Federoff, Vice President, University of California, Irvine
Nasser Arshadi, Secretary, University of Missouri – St. Louis
Sudeep Sarkar, Treasurer, University of South Florida
Karen J.L. Burg, University of Georgia
Robert V. Duncan, Texas Tech University
Eric R. Fossum, Dartmouth College
Arlene A. Garrison, Oak Ridge Associated Universities
Arthur P. Molella, Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation
Vinit Nijhawan, Boston University
Thomas N. Parks, The University of Utah
Elizabeth L. Dougherty, Ex Officio, United States Patent and Trademark Office
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2016 Conference Program Committee •
Sudeep Sarkar, Chair, University of South Florida
Nasser Arshadi, University of Missouri – St. Louis
Rory A. Cooper, University of Pittsburgh
Arthur Daemmrich, Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation
Elizabeth L. Dougherty, United States Patent and Trademark Office
Steven J. Kubisen, George Washington University
Elizabeth Langdon-Gray, Harvard University
Arthur P. Molella, Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation
George R. Newkome, The University of Akron
Ruchika Nijhara, Georgetown University
Patrick G. O’Shea, University of Maryland
Mark VanderZyl, Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures
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114th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 849
To grant a Federal charter to the National Academy of Inventors.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 10, 2015
Mr. Ross (for himself, Mr. Bilirakis, Ms. Frankel of Florida, Ms. Esty, Mr. Lipinski, and Ms. Castor of Florida)
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
A BILL
To grant a Federal charter to the National Academy of Inventors.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. GRANT OF FEDERAL CHARTER TO THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF INVENTORS.
(a) Grant Of Charter.—Part B of subtitle II of title 36, United States Code, is amended by inserting after chapter 1503 the following new chapter:
“CHAPTER 1504—NATIONAL ACADEMY OF INVENTORS
Ҥ 150401. Findings
“Congress finds the following:
“(1) The majority of our Nation’s basic research is done at our colleges and universities.
“(2) The National Academy of Inventors recognizes and encourages inventors who have a patent issued
from the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
“(3) The National Academy of Inventors enhances the visibility of university and non-profit research
institute technology and academic innovation.
“(4) The National Academy of Inventors encourages the disclosure of intellectual property.
“(5) The National Academy of Inventors educates and mentors innovative students.
“(6) The systematic application of organized knowledge and information can generate technology and
produce creative solutions to existing problems.
“(7) Innovation, based on new inventions and technologies, has proven to be a key factor in the industrial and economic development of the world.
“(8) The National Academy of Inventors serves a valuable role in the translation of science and technology within the university and non-profit research institute community, and for the benefit of society.
“(9) Congress supports the mission of the National Academy of Inventors to encourage the translation
of the inventions of its members to benefit society.
View entire bill at http://1.usa.gov/1RkDHAN
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Questions and Answers on H.R. 849
to Grant a Federal Charter to the NAI
What is a federally chartered organization?
Federally chartered organizations were designed to promote a public purpose by leveraging nonfederal
partnerships and individuals. This honorific designation symbolizes a federal recognition of the significant
national interests stemming from the mission, goals, and objectives of the organization.
Why should the NAI be granted a federal charter?
Currently, universities perform more than half of our nation’s basic research and more than 60% of that
research is federally funded. It is in our national best interest for that research to be translated for the betterment of society into innovative products, processes, cures, and treatments. Federally recognizing the importance of the NAI will bolster the innovations, technologies, and new businesses spurred as research develops at universities and nonprofit research institutes, elevating their already dynamic role in our national
economic development and our global competitiveness. Additionally, if granted a federal charter, the NAI
is ready and well equipped with subject matter experts to provide advice to the federal government on innovation, intellectual property, translational research and commercialization.
What is the cost of this bill?
There is no cost associated with granting a federal charter to the National Academy of Inventors.
Are similar organizations distinguished as federally chartered organizations?
Yes. The National Academy of Sciences, whose charter was signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln
in 1863, remains actively involved in advising the federal government on matters of science, engineering,
and medicine.
Does Congress still designate organizations as federally chartered organizations?
Yes, however Congress has drastically limited the frequency with which it enacts charter legislation. Although
no formal rule was adopted at the start of this Congress to ban charter legislation, it is the preference of the
House Judiciary Committee to not move charter legislation. With enough Members of Congress co-sponsoring, it could be possible to bring the bill out of Committee and directly to the House.
If the NAI is granted a Federal Charter, what oversight role will the federal government have in the future?
The National Academy of Inventors would be required to submit a report to Congress on the activities of the
preceding fiscal year, but the federal government would not take regulatory or oversight roles.
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N A T I O N A L
A C A D E M Y
O F
I N V E N T O R S®
Honoring 168 academic luminaries of innovation and invention
To be inducted as NAI Fellows at the NAI Annual Conference, April 15, 2016
at the United States Patent and Trademark Office
C. Mauli Agrawal • The University of Texas at San Antonio
Dean P. Alderucci • The University of Chicago
Jayakrishna Ambati • University of Kentucky
Iver E. Anderson • Iowa State University
Kristi S. Anseth • University of Colorado Boulder
Allen W. Apblett • Oklahoma State University
Charles J. Arntzen • Arizona State University
Harry A. Atwater, Jr. • California Institute of Technology
Lorne A. Babiuk • University of Alberta
John M. Ballato • Clemson University
John S. Baras • University of Maryland
Issa Batarseh • University of Central Florida
Ray H. Baughman • The University of Texas at Dallas
Angela M. Belcher • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stephen J. Benkovic • The Pennsylvania State University
Shekhar Bhansali • Florida International University
Sangeeta N. Bhatia • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
J. Douglas Birdwell • The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Kenneth J. Blank • Rowan University
Dale L. Boger • The Scripps Research Institute
Charles A. Bouman • Purdue University
John E. Bowers • University of California, Santa Barbara
Gary L. Bowlin • University of Memphis
C. Jeffrey Brinker • The University of New Mexico
Emery N. Brown • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Milton L. Brown • Georgetown University
Richard B. Brown • The University of Utah
Steven R.J. Brueck • The University of New Mexico
Joe C. Campbell • University of Virginia
Selim A. Chacour • University of South Florida
Mau-Chung Frank Chang • National Chiao Tung University
Shu Chien • University of California, San Diego
Mary-Dell Chilton • Washington University in St. Louis
Diana S. Chow • University of Houston
Chung K. Chu • University of Georgia
Yoginder P. Chugh • Southern Illinois University
William J. Clancey • Institute for Human and Machine Cognition
Katrina Cornish • The Ohio State University
Delos M. Cosgrove III • Cleveland Clinic
Alan W. Cramb • Illinois Institute of Technology
Benjamin F. Cravatt III • The Scripps Research Institute
Roy Curtiss III • University of Florida
Paul D. Dapkus • University of Southern California
John G. Daugman • University of Cambridge
Mark E. Davis • California Institute of Technology
Robert C. Dean, Jr. • Dartmouth College
Atam P. Dhawan • New Jersey Institute of Technology
Duane B. Dimos • The University of Texas at Arlington
David M. Eddy • University of South Florida
Nader Engheta • University of Pennsylvania
Antonio Facchetti • Northwestern University
Rudolf Faust • University of Massachusetts Lowell
Robert E. Fischell • University of Maryland
Christodoulos A. Floudas • Texas A&M University
Gabor Forgacs • University of Missouri
Scott E. Fraser • University of Southern California
Jean M.J. Fréchet • King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Richard H. Frenkiel • Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Sanjiv S. Gambhir • Stanford University
Shubhra Gangopadhyay • University of Missouri
Sir Andre K. Geim • The University of Manchester
George Georgiou • The University of Texas at Austin
John C. Gore • Vanderbilt University
Venu Govindaraju • University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
Ali Hajimiri • California Institute of Technology
Naomi J. Halas • Rice University
Andrew D. Hamilton • University of Oxford
Wayne W. Hanna • University of Georgia
Florence P. Haseltine • National Institutes of Health
Charlotte A.E. Hauser • King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Craig J. Hawker • University of California, Santa Barbara
M. Frederick Hawthorne • University of Missouri
Barton F. Haynes • Duke University
Richard F. Heck • University of Delaware
Andrew B. Holmes • The University of Melbourne
Rush D. Holt • American Association for the Advancement of Science
H. Robert Horvitz • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Chenming C. Hu • University of California, Berkeley
Leon D. Iasemidis • Louisiana Tech University
Mir Imran • University of Pittsburgh
Donald E. Ingber • Harvard University
Chennupati Jagadish • The Australian National University
Anil K. Jain • Michigan State University
Kristina M. Johnson • University of Colorado Boulder
Joseph S. Kalinowski • East Carolina University
Aaron V. Kaplan • Dartmouth College
Usha N. Kasid • Georgetown University
Kenneth W. Kinzler • Johns Hopkins University
Brian K. Kobilka • Stanford University
Steven J. Kubisen • The George Washington University
Donald W. Landry • Columbia University
Se-Jin Lee • Johns Hopkins University
Sunggyu Lee • Ohio University
Robert J. Lefkowitz • Duke University
G. Douglas Letson • H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute
Jennifer A. Lewis • Harvard University
Guifang Li • University of Central Florida
James C. Liao • University of California, Los Angeles
John S. Lollar III • Emory University
Anthony M. Lowman • Rowan University
Rodney S. Markin • University of Nebraska Medical Center
Tobin J. Marks • Northwestern University
Dean F. Martin • University of South Florida
Helen S. Mayberg • Emory University
Edith G. McGeer • The University of British Columbia
Patrick L. McGeer • The University of British Columbia
Meyya Meyyappan • NASA Ames Research Center
Thomas E. Milner • The University of Texas at Austin
Umesh K. Mishra • University of California, Santa Barbara
Somenath Mitra • New Jersey Institute of Technology
Andreas F. Molisch • University of Southern California
Ramani Narayan • Michigan State University
Alan C. Nelson • Arizona State University
Kyriacos C. Nicolaou • Rice University
David R. Nygren • The University of Texas at Arlington
Richard M. Osgood, Jr. • Columbia University
Alyssa Panitch • Purdue University
H. Anne Pereira • The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
William M. Pierce, Jr. • University of Louisville
John M. Poate • Colorado School of Mines
H. Vincent Poor • Princeton University
Ann Progulske-Fox • University of Florida
Suzie H. Pun • University of Washington
Kaushik Rajashekara • The University of Texas at Dallas
Jahangir S. Rastegar • Stony Brook University
A. Hari Reddi • University of California, Davis
E. Albert Reece • University of Maryland
Kenneth L. Reifsnider • The University of Texas at Arlington
Jasper D. Rine • University of California, Berkeley
Ajeet Rohatgi • Georgia Institute of Technology
Stephen D. Russell • Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command
Michael J. Sailor • University of California, San Diego
Bahgat G. Sammakia • Binghamton University
Andrew V. Schally • University of Miami
Paul R. Schimmel • The Scripps Research Institute
Peter G. Schultz • The Scripps Research Institute
Marlan O. Scully • Texas A&M University
Jonathan L. Sessler • The University of Texas at Austin
Mohsen Shahinpoor • University of Maine
Ben Shneiderman • University of Maryland
Marvin J. Slepian • The University of Arizona
Kwok-Fai So • The University of Hong Kong
Richard A. Soref • University of Massachusetts Boston
Pramod K. Srivastava • University of Connecticut
Andrew J. Steckl • University of Cincinnati
Valentino J. Stella • The University of Kansas
Galen D. Stucky • University of California, Santa Barbara
Bala Subramaniam • The University of Kansas
R. Michael Tanner • Association of Public and Land-grant Universities
Guillermo J. Tearney • Harvard University
Stephen Tomlinson • Medical University of South Carolina
James M. Tour • Rice University
Kalliat T. Valsaraj • Louisiana State University
Bert Vogelstein • Johns Hopkins University
Sherry L. Voytik-Harbin • Purdue University
Norman J. Wagner III • University of Delaware
Yong Wang • Washington State University
James A. Wells • University of California, San Francisco
Caroline C. Whitacre • The Ohio State University
Jay F. Whitacre • Carnegie Mellon University
Helena S. Wisniewski • University of Alaska Anchorage
Edward D. Wolf • Cornell University
Paul K. Wright • University of California, Berkeley
James C. Wyant • The University of Arizona
Pan-Chyr Yang • National Taiwan University
Yu-Dong Yao • Stevens Institute of Technology
Martin L. Yarmush • Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Jim P. Zheng • Florida State University
Collectively, the 2015 NAI Fellows hold 5,368 patents and represent 108 institutions.
www.AcademyofInventors.org
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Presenter and Speaker Biographies •
T H U RSDAY, APRI L 14, 2016
SESSION A: THE CHANGING INNOVATION CULTURE
Co-Chair
Andrew B. Holmes
Laureate Professor Emeritus of Chemistry
The University of Melbourne
Andrew B. Holmes, Ph.D., is Laureate Professor Emeritus of chemistry at The University of Melbourne and emeritus professor of organic and polymer chemistry at Imperial College. Holmes is
distinguished for his contributions to organic electronic semiconductors, in particular the development of polymer light emitting devices and organic and polymeric photovoltaic devices. He
has also made significant contributions in using affinity probes to study intracellular signaling.
He is co-recipient of the Descartes Prize of the European Commission and Royal Medal of the
Royal Society. He holds 20 U.S. patents and 25 foreign patents many of which have been licensed
to various companies. He is the co-founder of Cambridge Display Technology. He has published
over 520 peer-reviewed papers and serves as associate editor for Organic Letters. Holmes is a fellow (and the current president) of the Australian Academy of Science, NAI, Australian Academy
of Technology and Engineering and Royal Society.
Co-Chair
John M. Mason, Jr.
Vice President for Research & Economic Development,
Auburn University
John M. Mason Jr., Ph.D., P.E., is vice president for research and economic development at Auburn
University. Mason serves on the president’s cabinet and provides leadership for strategic planning
for the university’s research enterprise and economic development initiatives and is president of
the Auburn Research and Technology Foundation. Prior to joining Auburn University, Mason
was the associate dean for graduate studies, research and outreach in the college of engineering
at Penn State University, tenured professor of civil engineering, and director of the Thomas D.
Larson, Pennsylvania Transportation Institute and the executive director for the Mid-Atlantic
University Transportation Center. Mason holds a bachelor’s degree in transportation from Penn
State University, a master’s degree in transportation engineering from Villanova University, and
a doctorate in civil engineering from Texas A&M University. He is a fellow of the ITE and a registered professional engineer licensed in Pennsylvania.
Presentation: “Why” vs. “What”
Florence P. Haseltine
Emerita Scientist
National Institutes of Health
Florence P. Haseltine, Ph.D., M.D., is Emerita Scientist at the National Institutes of Health. Haseltine is a molecular biologist and obstetrician gynecologist. A member of NAM and fellow of AAAS
and NAI, she has been cited for her work in medical advocacy, notably as founder of the Society
for Women’s Health Research (SWHR) in 1990. Her patents include one for protective wheelchair containers and another for secure internet commerce. In 1995, she founded Haseltine Systems, which manufactures and sells the containers. As a pioneer in women’s health research, she
was the founding editor of the Journal of Women’s Health. Her scholarly publications are in the
area of sex differentiation, and she also wrote Woman Doctor, a best-selling novel about her medical training published in 1977. Since achieving emerita status, Haseltine works with scientific
organizations developing databases and digital applications to disseminate their important work.
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Presentation: Innovation for Humanity
Robert E. Fischell
Professor of Practice
University of Maryland
Robert E. Fischell, Sc.D. honorary, received his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering
from Duke University and master of science and doctor of science (honorary) degrees from the
University of Maryland. Fischell has formed 15 private companies that licensed his patents on
medical devices including heart pacemakers, defibrillators, coronary stents, and devices to treat
epilepsy and migraine headaches. He is a prolific inventor with over 200 issued U.S. and foreign
patents many of which started these medical device companies. He is a trustee of the University of Maryland, College Park Foundation, a member of the board of visitors for the College of
Engineering, and the board of visitors of the University of Maryland School of Medicine and
a director of the University System of Maryland. Fischell’s honors include Inventor of the Year
for the USA in 1984, election to NAE in 1996, NAI Fellow, and several medals for distinguished
accomplishments in science, engineering and innovation.
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Introduction of the Keynote Speaker
Mohsen Shahinpoor
Professor
University of Maine
Mohsen Shahinpoor, Ph.D., is professor of mechanical engineering, as well as professor of biomedical science and engineering at the University of Maine, where he established and currently
directs the biomedical engineering and robotics programs. He has contributed to innovations in
smart/intelligent materials, artificial muscles, ionic polymers, biomimetic soft robotics, advanced
nanocomposites, heart assist devices and systems, bionic vision and ophthalmological engineering and neuro and endovascular surgical tools and medical implants. He holds many awards
such as the NASA Space Act Award. He holds more than 32 U.S. patents, mostly in health engineering and medical implants. He wrote the first textbook in robotic surgery in 2014. He is a fellow of NAI, ASME, Institute of Physics and Royal Society of Chemistry. He has over 484 refereed journal articles, book chapters and proceedings publications, 50 books and edited volumes
and 65 patents, patents pending and publications.
Keynote Address: The Dynamics of the Unconscious Brain Under General Anesthesia
Emery N. Brown
Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering and of Computational Neuroscience
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Emery N. Brown, M.D., Ph.D., is Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering and
Computational Neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Warren M.
Zapol Professor of Anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. He is recognized for his contributions to neural signal processing and to understanding the
neuroscience mechanisms of general anesthesia. He is the recipient of the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award, NIH Director’s Transformative Research Award, and 2015 American Society of
Anesthesiologists Excellence in Research Award. He has 18 issued or pending patents and has
published more than 180 journal articles. He served on the NIH BRAIN Initiative Working Group.
He is a fellow of AAA&S and NAI, and a 2015 Guggenheim Fellow in Applied Mathematics. He
is a member of NAM, NAS and NAE.
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STATE OF THE ACADEMY ADDRESS
Paul R. Sanberg
President
National Academy of Inventors
Paul R. Sanberg, Ph.D., D.Sc., FNAI, is founder and president of the National Academy of Inventors, and senior vice president for research, innovation, and economic development at the University of South Florida. He trained at York University, University of British Columbia, Australian National University and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, among others, and
held academic positions at Ohio University, University of Cincinnati, and Brown University. He
holds 42 U.S. and 70 foreign patents and has served on numerous scientific advisory boards for
health-related foundations and companies. He is author of more than 600 scientific articles and
14 books, with 25,000 citations to his work, co-editor-in-chief of Technology and Innovation, and
serves on editorial boards for more than 30 scientific journals. He is a Charter Fellow of the NAI,
and fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, AAAS-Lemelson Invention Ambassador, Florida
Inventors Hall of Fame inductee, Florida Academy of Sciences Medalist, and serves on the nomination evaluation committee of the United States National Medal of Technology and Innovation.
PANEL 1: INVENTION IS NOT AN OPTION
Moderator
Yolanda L. Comedy
Director of the Center for Advancing Science & Engineering Capacity
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Yolanda L. Comedy, Ph.D., is director of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Center for Advancing Science & Engineering Capacity, where she directs a number of programs, including the AAAS-Lemelson Invention Ambassadors program. She previously
worked for the White House, serving as a senior policy analyst for both the President’s Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology and the President’s Information Technology Advisory
Committee; and IBM, working in strategic philanthropy, governmental programs, as well as business consulting on issues such as K-12 education reform, high-performance computing and U.S.
competitiveness, and business strategy. Comedy obtained her doctorate from Indiana University
in political science, specializing in public policy and international development.
Panelist
Karen J.L. Burg
Harbor Lights Endowed Chair
University of Georgia
Karen J.L. Burg, Ph.D., is professor and the Harbor Lights Endowed Chair in the Department of
Small Animal Medicine and Surgery at the University of Georgia (UGA). Prior to joining UGA,
she served as vice president for research and a professor of chemical engineering at Kansas State
University from 2014 to 2016. Burg’s honors include a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the inaugural Swiss AO Research Prize, recognition as a Massachusetts
Institute of Technology’s TR100 Young Innovator, an American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering Fellow, an American Council on Education Fellow, a U.S. Department of
Defense Era of Hope Scholar, and an AAAS-Lemelson Invention Ambassador. She has seven
patents issued, 13 disclosures and/or provisional patent applications recorded, with one patent
serving as the basis for a diagnostics startup company. Burg has given over 200 invited presentations and authored over 140 peer-reviewed publications on the subject of engineered tissues.
A Burg invention was one of ten technologies featured in the inaugural Avon Foundation for
Women – National Institutes of Health – Center for Advancing Innovation Breast Cancer StartUp Challenge. She holds 24 issued U.S. patents and has published over 200 peer-reviewed publications. She is a Fellow of the NAI.
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Panelist
Juan E. Gilbert
Andrew Banks Family Preeminence Endowed Professor and Chair
University of Florida
Juan E. Gilbert, Ph.D., is Andrew Banks Family Preeminence Endowed Professor and chair of
computer and information science and engineering at the University of Florida, where he leads
the Human Experience Research Lab. Gilbert has a wide variety of research projects, received
numerous awards, published more than 140 articles, given more than 200 talks and obtained more
than $24 million in research funding. He is the inventor of Prime III, a universally designed voting technology and is a fellow of AAAS.
Panelist
Suzie H. Pun
Robert F. Rushmer Professor of Bioengineering
University of Washington
Suzie H. Pun, Ph.D., is Robert F. Rushmer Professor of Bioengineering at University of Washington. Pun has developed new biomaterials for applications in drug delivery to the central nervous system, cancer therapy, and trauma care. She is the recipient of a Presidential Early Career
Award for Scientists and Engineers (2006), NSF CAREER Award, and Controlled Release Society’s Young Investigator Award (2014). She holds 11 U.S. patents that have been licensed to two
companies. She has published 90 peer-reviewed manuscripts and serves on the editorial advisory
boards for several journals, including Biomacromolecules, ACS Macro Letters, Biomaterials Science, Molecular Therapy, and Acta Biomaterialia. Pun is a fellow of NAI and AIMBE, and is currently serving as an AAAS-Lemelson Invention Ambassador.
Panelist
Michael A. Smith
Director of Intel® Software Academic Program
Intel Corporation
Michael A. Smith is director of the Intel Software Academic Program for Perceptual Computing and the Internet of Things and a visual computing architect. He is a specialist in image and
video analytics with a focus on automated media understanding for video search and visualization. He has given over 100 invited presentations and is the author of numerous scientific publications and a book on video indexing, search and summarization. Before joining Intel, Smith was
director of research with France Telecom R&D. Smith is a pioneer in health systems for remote
monitoring and is a co-founder of the Urban Health initiative for improving patient wellness in
underrepresented communities.
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GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY’S SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
HALL TOURS
Host Welcome Remarks
Nelson A. Carbonell
Chair
George Washington University Board of Trustees
Nelson A. Carbonell is chair of the George Washington University (GW) board of trustees. He
is an entrepreneur with more than 30 years of experience and has founded companies including Cysive, a software engineering services company he took public in 1999; Snowbird Capital,
which provided equity and mezzanine debt to middle market companies; and Nelson Carbonell
and Associates, which assists companies with strategy, financing, operations and technology. Carbonell has chaired several key committees of the GW board of trustees, most notably, the committee that led to approve the construction of Science and Engineering Hall. He serves on the board
of the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, and is a former chairman
of the Washington-Baltimore Young President’s Organization (YPO), as well as a former member of YPO’s International Board. He also serves on several corporate boards. Carbonell earned
his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from GW, graduating with distinction in 1985.
SESSION B: TRANSFORMATIVE TECHNOLOGIES
Co-Chair
Alyssa Panitch
Leslie A. Geddes Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs
Purdue University
Alyssa Panitch, Ph.D., is Leslie A. Geddes Professor of Biomedical Engineering and vice provost
for faculty affairs at Purdue University. Her inventions span cell-penetrating peptide therapeutics
to treat diseases involving inflammation and fibrosis and proteoglycan mimics that bind to the
extracellular matrix and promote healthy tissue healing. She is the recipient of the NSF CAREER
Award, the Leading Lights Risk Taker Award from Women in High Tech, and is a Renaissance Weekend Invitee. Panitch holds 14 U.S. and multiple associated foreign patents that have been licensed
to three startup companies of which she is a co-founder. She has published over 80 manuscripts
and serves as a member of the editorial advisory board for Biomacromolecules and as associate
editor for Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering. Panitch is a fellow of NAI, AIMBE and BMES.
Co-Chair
Stephen D. Russell
Director of Science & Technology and CTO
Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command
Stephen D. Russell, Ph.D., Senior Executive Service (SES), is director of science and technology and CTO at Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command. He leads a highly technical team
of 800+ personnel and influences $1.2B supporting R&D in command and control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. He is the recipient of many
awards including: AFCEA’s International Gold Medal in Engineering, SSC Pacific’s LauritsenBennett Award for Science, Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award and the FLC Excellence in
Technology Transition Award. He holds 115 U.S. and foreign patents and over 20 percent of his
IP portfolio has been commercially licensed. He has authored or co-authored over 70 articles in
peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings, and technical reports and serves on the editorial board for Naval Science & Technology FUTURE FORCE Magazine. Russell received his master’s and doctoral degrees from University of Michigan and bachelor’s degree from SUNY Stony
Brook. He is a member of APS and SPIE and a Fellow of NAI.
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Presentation: Home-grown Rubber
Katrina Cornish
Ohio Research Scholar and Endowed Chair of Bioemergent Materials
The Ohio State University
Katrina Cornish, Ph.D., is Ohio Research Scholar and Endowed Chair of Bioemergent Materials
at The Ohio State University. Cornish is the leading global expert on alternate rubber production,
processing and products, and exploitation of opportunity feedstocks and wastes, for sustainable
and resilient bioproducts and biofuels, and her research and inventions form the foundation of
the alternate rubber industry. She is the recipient of the Good Housekeeping Award for Women
in Government, Outstanding Research Scientist of the Year (USDA-ARS), ACS Presidential Award,
and Outstanding Research Scientist of the Year (AAIC). She has 36 issued and pending U.S. and
foreign patents, 14 of which have been licensed to private industry. She is the founder of EnergyEne, Inc., EnergyEne Australia Pty. Ltd, EnergyEne Africa, and DamSafe LLC. She has 201 academic publications, and serves on the editorial boards of Industrial Crops and Products, Phytochemistry and Industrial Biotechnology. Cornish is a fellow of AAAS and NAI.
Presentation: The Role of Color Separation in the Making of 3DTV and Movies
Kristina M. Johnson
Founder, Chairman and CEO, Cube Hydro Partners
University of Colorado Boulder
Kristina M. Johnson, Ph.D., is founder, chair and CEO of Enduring Hydro, LLC. She served as
undersecretary at the U.S. DOE, as provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at the
Johns Hopkins University, as dean of the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University and as
professor at University of Colorado Boulder. She is an inventor and entrepreneur in liquid crystal optoelectronic devices and high definition displays. She is the recipient of many accolades
including NSF Presidential Young Investigator (1985), Fulbright Faculty Scholar (1991), Dennis
Gabor Prize (1993) and John Fritz Medal (2008). She co-founded several companies, including
SouthEast Techinventures, Cube Hydro Partners and ColorLink, Inc., which was sold to RealD,
and is responsible for 3D effects in movies such as Avatar, and 300 others. Johnson has published
147 refereed papers and proceedings and holds 43 U.S. patents. She is an inductee of Women in
Technology International Hall of Fame (2003), Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame (2014) and NIHF
(2015) and is a fellow of NAI, OSA, IEEE, SPIE and AAAS.
PANEL 2: BUILDING PATHS TO COMMERCIALIZATION FOR STUDENT
ENTREPRENEURS: EXPLORING CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR
POST-UNIVERSITY SUPPORT
Moderator
Graham M. Pugh
Deputy Director
The Lemelson Foundation
Graham M. Pugh is deputy director of The Lemelson Foundation. He works on programs and
initiatives to advance the Foundation’s strategy of harnessing the power of invention to improve
lives. Pugh draws on three decades of diverse experience in the public policy, international development, engineering, and technology sectors. Most recently, he served as director of the Office
of Climate Change Policy and Technology at the U.S. Department of Energy, where he oversaw
engagement with global energy ministries and managed agreements focused on renewable energy,
energy efficiency and access, and human capacity. Previously, he served at the White House as
deputy associate director for technology and international affairs at the Council on Environmental Quality. He also spent years facilitating development of new technologies for Intel and other
corporations. He holds a bachelor’s degree in physics and a master’s degree in engineering from
Cornell University and also served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Kenya.
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Panelist
Soumyadipta Acharya
Graduate Program Director, Center for Bioengineering and Design
Johns Hopkins University
Soumyadipta Acharya, M.D., Ph.D., is graduate program director of the Johns Hopkins Center
for Bioengineering Innovation and Design (CBID) and an assistant research professor of biomedical engineering at Johns Hopkins University. He was the chief architect of a new graduate
program in bioengineering innovation and design and has been involved in the invention and
early stage development of several diagnostic and therapeutic technologies. Several of his inventions have received funding from USAID and other foundations. In recognition of his contributions to medical technology innovation, entrepreneurship and education, Acharya received
the Olympus Emerging Educational Leader Award (2011), from the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA). He is also the recipient of the NASA Tech Briefs Award
(2006) and NASA Space Act Board Award (2008) in recognition of his work on human physiological signal analysis. He has published over 35 peer reviewed articles and book chapters, and
is the inventor on 18 patents.
Panelist
Dan E. Azagury
Assistant Director, Biodesign Specialty Fellowship Program
Stanford University
Dan E. Azagury, M.D., is assistant director of the Biodesign Specialty Fellowship Program and
assistant professor of surgery at Stanford University. He specializes in minimally invasive surgery,
digestive surgery, bariatric surgery and general surgery. He previously completed a fellowship in
medical innovation at Stanford Biodesign and was responsible for bariatric surgery at Geneva
University Hospital in Switzerland. Azagury combines his clinical experience and his passion for
innovation to focus on reducing the impact of surgical procedures on patients. He received two
U.S. patents and numerous awards. He is a member of the Association for Academic Surgery and
the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, and an associate fellow of the American College of Surgeons.
Panelist
Pratik Patel
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer
Glyscend Inc.
Pratik Patel is co-founder and chief technology officer at Glyscend Inc., a startup out of Johns Hopkins University (JHU). In addition, he serves as the principal investigator for a NSF small business technology transfer grant between Glyscend and JHU to commercialize technology his team
developed as graduate students. He believes healthcare solutions that have the highest impact on
patients are the ones that address the needs of multiple stakeholders. During his graduate studies at JHU, his team interacted with basic scientists, clinicians, regulatory experts, reimbursement
experts and patients, to propose a revolutionary treatment for type 2 diabetes based on insights
from bariatric surgery, forming the basis for Glyscend. The concept has since received recognition and funding totaling nearly half a million dollars from state, federal, and national collegiate
organizations. Previously, he worked at DSM, a large medical device company developing surgical meshes, and Biolite, a startup company developing clean cooking stoves that produce energy
for developing nations, and in the space of early cancer detection, biomaterials, and water distribution systems for remote communities.
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Panelist
Joseph Steig
Chief Financial Officer
Long River Ventures
Joseph Steig is chief financial officer at Long River Ventures, a seed and early stage venture fund.
Long River is actively investing out of its third fund, investing in New England and the northeastern United States with a sector focus on IT, health IT and other healthcare technology. In
addition, Steig develops entrepreneurship curriculum and teaches in accelerator programs both
in the United States and internationally. He is currently working with Village Capital, a global
program focused on accelerating ventures that deliver significant value to people and the planet.
Steig also serves on the board of directors of the non-profit lending institution Common Capital,
on the advisory board for Greentown Labs and on the global health advisory board for Investors
Circle. He has worked in a diverse range of industries, from aquaculture to the internet, and has
extensive consulting experience with universities and innovators on technology commercialization. He is the co-founder of River Valley Investors, a Massachusetts angel investor group. Steig
grew up in Vancouver, Can. and went to Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass.
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Introduction of Keynote Speaker
Kristi S. Anseth
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and
Distinguised Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
University of Colorado Boulder
Kristi S. Anseth, Ph.D., is Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and Distinguished
Professor of chemical and biological engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder (CUBoulder). Anseth is known for her development of innovative biomaterials for drug delivery
and regenerative medicine applications. She is the recipient of the Curtis W. McGraw Award
from the ASEE, Alan T. Waterman Award from NSF, Colburn and Professional Progress Awards
from AIChE, Outstanding Young Investigator and Mid-Career Research awards from MRS,
Hazel Barnes Award from CU-Boulder, and Science and Medicine Prize from the Bonfils-Stanton Foundation. Anseth holds 15 U.S. patents or patents pending and is co-founder of Mosaic
Biosciences. She has published over 300 articles and serves as an editor for Biomacro-molecules,
Progress in Materials Science, and Biotechnology & Bioengineering. Anseth is a member of NAE,
NAM, and NAS and is a fellow of NAI, AAAS, AIMBE, MRS and SFB.
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Keynote Address: Bench to Bedside to Population: A Journey of Innovation
Victor J. Dzau
President, National Academy of Medicine
James B. Duke Professor of Medicine, Duke University
Victor J. Dzau, M.D., is president of the National Academy of Medicine and chancellor emeritus and James B. Duke Professor of Medicine at Duke University. Previously, he was chairman of
medicine at Harvard and Stanford Universities. Dzau’s seminal research on the renin angiotensin system paved the way for the development of widely used lifesaving drugs. He pioneered gene
therapy for vascular disease and his recent work on microRNA in direct reprogramming provides
a novel strategy for regenerative medicine. He served as a chair and member of advisory committees for NIH; on the board of Health Governors of the World Economic Forum and chaired
its Global Agenda Council on Personalized and Precision Medicine; as chair of Scientific Advisory Board of CV Therapeutics; and board of directors of Genzyme, Medtronic and Alnylam Inc.
Among his many honors and recognitions are the Gustav Nylin Medal, the Distinguished Scientist Award from the American Heart Association, Ellis Island Medal of Honor, Henry Freisen
International Prize, and Public Service Medal from the President of Singapore. He holds 17 patents and founded Corgentech and Clerigen Inc. He is a Fellow of the NAI and member of NAM,
AAA&S and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, and received eight honorary doctorates.
SIGNATURE RECEPTION GALA: A HISTORY OF AMERICAN INNOVATION
Welcome Remarks
Arthur Daemmrich
Director, Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation
Smithsonian Institution
Arthur Daemmrich, Ph.D., is director of the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and
Innovation. His research explores relationships between regulation and innovation through historical and comparative studies of the pharmaceutical industry, the chemicals sector, and healthcare systems. He is the author of Pharmacopolitics: Drug Regulation in the United States and Germany and has published over 25 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters in science and
technology studies, the history of science, technology and medicine, and health and business
policy, as well as numerous teaching cases and notes. He previously was an associate professor
at The University of Kansas School of Medicine, assistant professor at Harvard Business School,
visiting professor at the China Europe International Business School, and director of the Center
for Contemporary History and Policy at the Chemical Heritage Foundation. He holds a doctoral
degree from Cornell University in science and technology studies and a bachelor’s degree from
the University of Pennsylvania in the history and sociology of science.
Welcome Remarks
Paul R. Sanberg
President, National Academy of Inventors
See page 17
Sponsor Remarks
Graham M. Pugh
Deputy Director, The Lemelson Foundation
See page 20
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F R I DAY, APRI L 15, 2016
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Introduction of the Keynote Speaker
Nicholas A. Peppas
Professor & Director of the Institute for Biomaterials, Drug Delivery and Regenerative Medicine
The University of Texas at Austin
Nicholas A. Peppas, Sc.D., is Cockrell Family Regents Chair in Engineering, professor of chemical engineering, biomedical engineering and pharmacy and chairman of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. His research blends modern molecular and cellular biology with engineering to generate the next-generation of medical systems and
devices for patient treatment. He is the inventor of numerous medical products including contact and intraocular lenses, artificial kidney membranes, cartilage, and devices for oral delivery
of insulin for treatment of diabetics, calcitonin for osteoporosis and interferon beta for multiple
sclerosis. He is an elected member of NAE (2012 Founders Award), NAM, the National Academy of France, the Royal Academy of Spain, the Academy of Athens and the Texas Academy. In
2008 AIChE named him among the 100 Engineers of the Modern Era. Peppas holds a Dipl. Eng.,
National Technical University of Athens (1971), a Sc.D. from MIT (1973), and honorary doctorates from the Universities of Ghent (Belgium), Parma (Italy), Ljubljana (Slovenia) and Athens
(Greece). He is a Fellow of the NAI.
Keynote Address: Catalyzing Innovation to Address Grand Challenges
Cristin A. Dorgelo
Chief of Staff
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
Cristin A. Dorgelo is chief of staff at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
(OSTP). As chief of staff to the President’s Science Advisor and the U.S. Chief Technology Officer, Dorgelo facilitates policy development and implementation across a broad spectrum of science and technology issues. She previously served as assistant director for Grand Challenges at
OSTP, developing programs to address 21st Century Grand Challenges and working with Federal agencies to use incentive prizes to engage citizen solvers on Challenge.gov. From 2006-2012,
Dorgelo was vice president of prize operations for the XPRIZE Foundation, a nonprofit prize
institute in Culver City, Cal. She helped launch several startup companies at the Pasadena, Cal
incubator Idealab from 2000-2006 and was part of the founding team of X1 Technologies. Dorgelo started her career at the Los Angeles Times and holds a bachelor’s degree in history with a
minor in anthropology from UCLA.
SESSION C: ENTREPRENEURSHIP DRIVES INVENTION FORWARD
Co-Chair
Patrick G. O’Shea
Vice President and Chief Research Officer
University of Maryland
Patrick G. O’Shea, Ph.D., is vice president and chief research officer at the University of Maryland
(UMD), a vibrant $550M per annum research enterprise. He previously served as chair of the
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, executive director of the Center for Applied
Electromagnetics, co-director of the Maryland Cyber Security Center, and director of the Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics. He played a leading role in the founding
of the Maryland NanoCenter, Center for Applied Electromagnetics, and Cyber Security Center.
He holds a bachelor’s degree from the National University of Ireland, University College Cork,
and master’s and doctoral degrees in physics from UMD. His technical expertise lies in the field
of applied electromagnetics, nonlinear dynamics and particle accelerator technology, and applications. He serves the boards of the National Institute of Aerospace, Cooperative Institute for
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Climate and Satellites, Universitas 21 Research Leaders Steering Group, Maryland Cybersecurity Council, Maryland Innovation Initiative, Oak Ridge Associated Universities and Oak Ridge
Associated Universities Foundation, and Wild Geese Network of Irish Scientists. He is a fellow of
IEEE, the American Physical Society and AAAS, and is a UMD Distinguished Scholar-Teacher.
Co-Chair
Helena S. Wisniewski
Vice Provost for Research and Graduate Studies
University of Alaska Anchorage
Helena S. Wisniewski, Ph.D., is vice provost for research and graduate studies at University of
Alaska Anchorage (UAA). She has guided innovation from concept to market benefiting society in biometrics, medical devices, image compression, telecommunications, and steganography,
and combined facial recognition and intelligent software agents to successfully find missing and
exploited children. She served with DARPA and created the first mathematics program with the
CIA. She is the founding director of the DHS Arctic Domain Awareness Center of Excellence. At
UAA and Stevens Institute of Technology she established commercialization infrastructures and
significantly increased the number of invention disclosures and patents. She received the Women
in Technology Leadership Award for Entrepreneurship, Award for Extraordinary Leadership from
Lockheed, awards for special achievement from DARPA and the CIA, and Distinguished Alumni
of William Paterson University. She holds patents in steganography and facial recognition and
founded 15 startup companies and serves on the board of directors of Greatbatch Inc., a publicly
traded billion-dollar provider of medical devices. In 2007, the Secretary of the Navy appointed
her to the Naval Research Advisory Committee. She is a NAI Fellow.
Presentation: Innovation, Invention and Entrepreneurial Thinking
Mir Imran
Adjunct Professor of Bioengineering
University of Pittsburgh
Mir Imran is adjunct professor of bioengineering at University of Pittsburgh. Imran began his
career with his pioneering contributions to the first FDA-approved implantable defibrillator (ICD)
with Intec Systems. Intec was acquired by Eli Lilly in 1985. Since then, Imran has developed novel
therapies for a number of chronic diseases, including epilepsy, anemia, obesity, chronic pain,
stroke, diabetes, and several cardiovascular conditions. Many of these therapies have become
the standard of care, improving or saving the lives of millions of patients. He holds more than
450 issued or pending U.S. patents and several hundred foreign patents that have been licensed
to the more than 25 companies that he has started over the past 37 years. Fifteen of these companies have been acquired by large companies. Imran is a fellow of AIMBE and NAI, and was
inducted in the Rutgers University Hall of Distinguished Alumni.
Presentation: The Living Platform Theory of Invention Spawns Powerful Artificial Muscles
Ray H. Baughman
Robert A. Welch Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Nano-Tech Institute
The University of Texas at Dallas
Ray H. Baughman, Ph.D., is Robert A. Welch Professor of Chemistry and director of the NanoTech Institute at The University of Texas at Dallas. Baughman’s inventions with team members
have provided vaccine indicators that have long been saving lives in the underdeveloped world,
as well as artificial muscles and carbon nanotube sheets and yarns that are being commercially
developed by licensees for diverse applications. He has 72 issued U.S. patents and 380 refereed
publications, with over 29,000 citations. Baughman is a member of NAE; the Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas; foreign member of the European Academy of Sciences;
fellow of the NAI, Royal Society of Chemistry and APS; Academician of The Russian Academy
of Natural Sciences; honorary professor of six universities in China; and is on editorial or advisory boards of Science and other journals.
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Presentation: Taking Semiconductor Technology to a New Dimension – 3D Transistor
Chenming C. Hu
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Distinguished Professor Emeritus
University of California, Berkeley
Chenming C. Hu, Ph.D., is Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Distinguished Professor Emeritus at University of California, Berkeley. He led the development of FinFET, the 3D
transistor that since 2011 has revolutionized computer chips, allowing semiconductor industry to create denser, faster and more energy frugal products. He also led the development of the
industry standard transistor model (BSIM) that has been used worldwide since 1997 to design
integrated circuits worth hundreds of billions of dollars. He is the recipient of the IEEE Morton Award, Nishizawa Medal, Asian American Engineer of the Year award, and Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award, which is UC Berkeley’s highest honor for teaching. He founded Celestry Design Technology. He holds 130 U.S. patents and has published five books and 900 research
articles. Hu is a member of NAE, a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a NAI
Fellow, and a life fellow of IEEE.
PANEL 3: MANAGING RISK IN ACADEMIC INNOVATION
Moderator
Elizabeth Langdon-Gray
Assistant Provost for Research Development and Planning
Harvard University
Elizabeth Langdon-Gray, MA, LL.M., is assistant provost for research development and planning
at Harvard University. In this role she works closely with the vice provost to promote high impact
research, identify and cultivate sources of research funding, and support schools in providing
research development services. Langdon-Gray serves as co-chair of Harvard’s research development coordinating committee, which convenes research development professionals from throughout the university to promote best practice and facilitate dissemination of funding opportunities.
She also is responsible for the University’s selection of candidates for funding opportunities where
the sponsor limits the number of applicants that may apply from a single institution. Previously,
she served as director of research policy and education and before joining Harvard in 2010 was
legislative director for research policy in the University of California Office of Federal Relations
in Washington, D.C. Langdon-Gray was educated in Scotland, receiving her master’s degree from
the University of St. Andrews and her master’s degree in law from the University of Edinburgh.
Panelist
Delos M. Cosgrove III
President and CEO
Cleveland Clinic
Delos M. Cosgrove III, M.D., is president and CEO of Cleveland Clinic. He presides over an $8B
health care system comprising Cleveland Clinic, nine regional hospitals, and 21 family health
and ambulatory surgery centers in Ohio, Florida, Las Vegas, Toronto, and Abu Dhabi. Under his
leadership, Cleveland Clinic has consistently been named among “America’s Top Five Hospitals”
by U.S. News & World Report and is one of only two hospitals named among America’s 99 Most
Ethical Companies by the Ethisphere Institute. He received his medical degree from the University of Virginia. He was a surgeon in the U.S. Air Force and was awarded the Bronze Star and the
Republic of Vietnam Commendation Medal. He has published nearly 450 articles, book chapters, one book and 17 training and continuing medical education films. He performed more than
22,000 operations and earned an international reputation for expertise in all areas of cardiac surgery, especially valve repair. Cosgrove has 30 patents filed for developing medical and clinical
products used in surgical environments. He is a fellow of the NAI.
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Panelist
Alan W. Cramb
President
Illinois Institute of Technology
Alan W. Cramb, Ph.D., is the ninth president of Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). Prior to joining
IIT, Cramb served as dean of engineering and the John A. Clark and Edward T. Crossan Professor of Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2005. He later joined IIT as provost
in 2008. He is the author of over 200 publications and holds two U.S. patents. He was the recipient of the American Iron and Steel Institute Medal in 1985 and 1986, the Robert Woolston
Hunt Silver Medal of the Iron and Steel Society in 1987, and was awarded the Benjamin Richard Teare Teaching Award at CMU for excellence in engineering education in 1995. In 2000 he
was elected president of the Iron and Steel Society. He was named the John Elliott lecturer of The
Minerals, Metals & Materials Society in 2002, and in 2003 was awarded the Benjamin F. Fairless
Award of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers (AIME).
Cramb is a distinguished member or fellow of AIST, AIME, ASM International, AAAS, Iron and
Steel Institute of Japan and NAI, and was elected to NAE in 2014.
Panelist
Stephen K. Klasko
President and CEO
Thomas Jefferson University
Stephen K. Klasko, M.D., MBA, is president and CEO of Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health. He has championed transformation of American health care as university president,
dean of two medical colleges, and CEO of three academic health centers. Since 2014, Jefferson
Health has grown from a three hospital urban academic medical center with annual revenues
of $1.8 billion to an eleven hospital geographically dispersed regional academic medical center
with eleven hospitals and annual revenues of $4.8 billion. Klasko is author of 2016’s We CAN Fix
Healthcare in America, and editor in chief of Healthcare Transformation. He is an international
speaker on changing the DNA of health care through physician leadership and his entrepreneurial
spirit helped one university he led to be in the top ten in the world for obtaining U.S. patents. He
serves on the corporate board and audit committee of Teleflex (TFX: NYSE), a multi-billion dollar health care solutions corporation. He also serves on the board of Lehigh University, the Emory
University/Georgia Tech Innovation advisory board, and the Friedrich’s Ataxia Research Alliance.
KEYNOTE ADDRESS AND NAI FELLOWS INDUCTION CEREMONY
Introduction of the Fellows Keynote Speaker
Elizabeth L. Dougherty
Director of Inventor Education, Outreach, and Recognition
Office of Innovation Development
United States Patent and Trademark Office
Elizabeth L. Dougherty, J.D., is director of inventor education, outreach, and recognition in the
Office of Innovation Development at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
In this capacity, she develops, implements and supervises programs that support the independent inventor community, small businesses, entrepreneurs and the intellectual property interests of colleges and universities; she supervises the development of outreach programs to women,
minority and other underserved communities; she also builds and maintains relationships with
state and local governments to promote local programs that support invention and innovation
in the United States. Dougherty has spearheaded a number of special projects with such organizations and oversees a portfolio of ongoing and future initiatives designed to assist independent
inventors, entrepreneurs, and minorities. She serves as an ex-officio on the National Academy of
Inventors board of directors and as a member of the NAI Fellows Selection Committee since 2012.
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Fellows Keynote Address
Andrew H. Hirshfeld
Commissioner for Patents
United States Patent and Trademark Office
U.S. Department of Commerce
Andrew H. Hirshfeld, Esq., is commissioner for patents for the USPTO. He was appointed to the
position in July 2015. He leads and manages more than 10,000 employees as the patent organization’s chief operating officer, and manages and directs all aspects of patent operations, examination policy, patent quality management, international patent cooperation, resources and planning,
and budget administration. In his previous role as deputy commissioner for patent examination
policy, Hirshfeld served as an authority on patent laws, rules, and examining practice and procedure, and provided oversight and direction for the Offices of Petitions, Patent Legal Administration, and the Manual of Patent Examining Procedure. Hirshfeld previously served as chief
of staff to the under secretary of commerce for intellectual property and director of the USPTO.
He began his career at the USPTO in 1994 as a patent examiner, became a supervisory patent
examiner in 2001, and was promoted to the Senior Executive Service in 2008 as a group director in Technology Center 2100, Computer Architecture and Software. Hirshfeld holds a Bachelor
of Science degree from the University of Vermont, and a J.D. from Western New England College School of Law. Hirshfeld served as a member of the 2015 NAI Fellows Selection Committee.
Signing Event
Russell D. Slifer
Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and
Deputy Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
Russell D. Slifer, J.D., is deputy under secretary of commerce for intellectual property and deputy director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, providing strategic leadership and
oversight. Most recently, he served as director of the Rocky Mountain Regional USPTO, where he
led efforts to foster business and technological innovation, promoting economic development and
intellectual property knowledge throughout the Rocky Mountain region. Previously, he served as
chief patent counsel for Micron Technology in Boise where he developed an effective worldwide
patent portfolio strategy. He was also principal at Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner in Minneapolis, advising a wide range of high-technology clients from startups to Fortune 100 companies
on intellectual property matters. Slifer has served as president of the Association of Corporate
Patent Counsel and board member of the Intellectual Property Owners Association. Prior to his
legal career, he was a design engineer for Honeywell. He received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Iowa State University and J.D. from Northern Illinois University.
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• The NAI Staff •
Keara A. Leach
Program Director
Keara A. Leach, MBA, is program director for the National Academy of Inventors. She works
closely with leadership from member institutions, NAI Fellows and partnering organizations to
encourage and honor academic invention and innovation in support of the mission and goals of
the Academy. Leach directs all programs of the NAI including member institution relations and
launching local Chapters, nomination and election of NAI Fellows and the NAI annual conference. The conference serves as an arena where innovation and entrepreneurship leading to local
and national economic development is recognized, honored and cultivated in the academic world.
The event is a collaborative forum for leadership and inventors from over 150 prestigious research
institutions to come together and share their innovative initiatives. Leach began her career with
the NAI in 2011 and holds masters’ degrees in business administration and entrepreneurship in
applied technologies and a bachelor’s degree in marketing and mass communications from the
University of South Florida.
Lauren H. Maradei
Program Manager
Lauren H. Maradei, M.S., is program manager for the National Academy of Inventors. She joined
NAI in March 2014, and she handles a wide variety of managerial duties including overseeing the
marketing and communications for NAI, including the website, newsletters, and social media.
Maradei recruits and manages new member institutions and provides customer service for members at all levels, encouraging the launch of new local chapters. She also facilitates the election and
induction of Fellows and leads numerous engagement initiatives for NAI membership. She has a
bachelor’s degree in hospitality management from the University of Central Florida and a master’s degree in marketing from the University of Tampa. Contact her with any marketing needs
or to learn more about becoming a member institution and starting a chapter.
Autumn N. Pandolfo
Special Projects Coordinator
Autumn N. Pandolfo, MBA, is special projects coordinator for the National Academy of Inventors.
She joined NAI in May 2015 and handles a variety of duties including managing and facilitating
the annual conference, workshops, events, and public functions. Pandolfo serves as a primary
liaison with a national program committee helping to plan and coordinate conference speakers
and other external constituents like potential sponsors and candidates for presentations. She has
a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of South Florida and a master’s degree in
business administration with a graduate certificate in nonprofit management from the University of Tampa. Contact her for all questions regarding the NAI annual meeting including, sponsorship, speaking opportunities and registration.
Judy Lowry
Managing Editor
Technology and Innovation, Journal of the National Academy of Inventors
Judy Lowry is managing editor of Technology and Innovation, Journal of the National Academy of
Inventors and director of outreach and engagement for USF Research & Innovation at the University of South Florida, where she oversees the Institute for Advanced Discovery & Innovation and
the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame. She was instrumental in the establishment of the NAI and recognized with induction as an honorary member of the USF Chapter in 2011. Lowry received her
bachelor’s degree from The Ohio State University, with graduate work at Florida State University.
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Monica J. Richter
Director of Federal Government Relations
University of South Florida
Monica J. Richter, M.A., is director of federal government relations at the University of South Florida (USF). She works closely with Congress and federal agencies to develop and grow opportunities for USF to engage nationally. Richter supports the National Academy of Inventors, particularly
on its efforts to gain Congressional support for H.R. 849, to grant a federal charter to the National
Academy of Inventors. She joined the USF team in 2013 after working as a legislative staffer for
six years on Capitol Hill. She holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from USF and a master’s degree in national security and strategic studies from the United States Naval War College.
Kimberly A. Macuare
Assistant Editor
Technology and Innovation, Journal of the National Academy of Inventors
Kimberly A. Macuare, Ph.D., is assistant editor for Technology and Innovation, Journal of the
National Academy of Inventors (T&I). She is involved in all facets of the journal’s work, including business operations, strategic planning, marketing, writing, and editing. She works closely
with the authors, reviewers, and editorial staff to make T&I a central part of the NAI’s mission
to promote invention and honor academic inventors. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English
from the University of Cincinnati and a master’s degree in English and a doctorate in English
with a specialization in medieval literature and economics from The Ohio State University. Contact her for all questions regarding T&I, including submissions, opportunities for guest editorships, and journal sponsorship.
Terrance T. Anderson
Administrative Specialist
Terrance T. Anderson is administrative specialist for the National Academy of Inventors. He
joined NAI in September 2015, and handles a wide variety of administrative duties including
maintaining internal accounting records, assisting with invoicing and membership activities,
conducting research, preparing reports and processing information requests. He has been working in the administrative role with the State of Florida for over 20 years, and for the past 5 years
with the University of South Florida.
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• NAI Sustaining Member Institutions •
Founded in 1831, New York University (NYU) is one of the world’s foremost research universities and
is a member of the selective Association of American Universities. NYU has degree-granting university
campuses in New York, Abu Dhabi, and Shanghai; has eleven other global academic sites, including London, Paris, Florence, Tel Aviv, Buenos Aires, and Accra; and both sends more students to study abroad
and educates more international students than any other U.S. college or university. Through its numerous schools and colleges, NYU is a leader in conducting research and providing education in the arts
and sciences, law, medicine, business, dentistry, education, nursing, the cinematic and performing arts,
music and studio arts, public administration, social work, and professional studies, among other areas.
Texas Tech University is located in Lubbock, Texas. Created by legislative action in 1923 as Texas Technological College, the name was changed to Texas Tech University in 1969. Campus physical facilities
include a total of 7,449,218 square feet in 188 buildings. The university is composed of more than 26,400
undergraduate, 5,200 graduate and 700 law students. Annually, total research expenditures exceed $125
million. The Carnegie Foundation classifies Texas Tech University as a RU/H: Research Universities
(high research activity).
Currently celebrating its 50th anniversary, University of California, Irvine (UCI) is the youngest member
of the prestigious Association of American Universities. The campus has produced three Nobel laureates
and is known for its academic achievement, premier research, innovation and anteater mascot. Led by
Chancellor Howard Gillman, UCI has more than 30,000 students and offers 192 degree programs. It’s
located in one of the world’s safest and most economically vibrant communities and is Orange County’s second-largest employer, contributing $4.8 billion annually to the local economy.
The University of Central Florida (UCF) and its 13 colleges provide opportunities to 60,000 students
from all 50 states and 140 countries. Located in Orlando, Florida, UCF is the nation’s second-largest
university with 210 degree programs to choose from. UCF is ranked as one of the “Most Innovative”
universities by U.S. News & World Report, a best-value university by The Princeton Review and Kiplinger’s, and one of the nation’s most affordable colleges by Forbes.
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The University of Florida (UF), established in 1853, is a public, land-grant research university and one of
the most comprehensive and academically diverse universities in the nation. U.S. News & World Report
ranks UF 14th among public universities. Rankings such as 4th among AAU publics and 3rd in Kiplinger’s
“Best Values in Public Colleges” are a result of UF’s commitment to provide the highest quality education at the best value. UF is home to 16 colleges and more than 200 research, service and education centers, bureaus and institutes, and boasts more than 4,000 faculty members, 50,000 students and 367,000
alumni. Faculty scholars last year generated $706 million in research awards. The Florida Legislature
in 2013 designated UF as the state’s “preeminent” university and allocated $15 million annually to UF
for five years to support the university’s goal of joining the nation’s top five public research universities.
The University of Nebraska–Lincoln (UNL), chartered in 1869, is an educational institution of international stature. UNL is listed by the Carnegie Foundation within the “Research Universities (very high
research activity)” category. UNL is a land-grant university and a member of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU). The university is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. The University of Nebraska was founded
on February 15, 1869.
The University of South Florida (USF) is a high-impact, global research university dedicated to student
success. USF is a Top 50 research university among both public and private institutions nationwide in
total research expenditures, according to the National Science Foundation. Serving more than 48,000
students, the USF System has an annual budget of $1.6 billion and an annual economic impact of $4.4
billion. USF is a member of the American Athletic Conference and a Charter Member Institution of
the National Academy of Inventors.
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NAI Member Institution Representatives
SUSTAINING MEMBER INSTITUTIONS
Brent Edington, Florida State University
Kurt H. Becker, New York University
Claudia C. Stewart, Georgetown University
Robert V. Duncan, Texas Tech University
Howard J. Federoff, University of California, Irvine*
M.J. Soileau, University of Central Florida
David P. Norton, University of Florida
Prem S. Paul, University of Nebraska – Lincoln
Judy L. Genshaft, University of South Florida
MEMBER INSTITUTIONS
Sethuraman Panchanathan, Arizona State University
John M. Mason Jr., Auburn University
Bahgat Sammakia, Binghamton University*
Mark Rudin, Boise State University
Gloria S. Waters, Boston University
Edward Hackett, Brandeis University*
Katherine Gordon, Brown University
Fred Farina, California Institute of Technology
Farnam Jahanian, Carnegie Mellon University
Joseph Jankowski, Case Western Reserve University
James Perkins, Clark Atlanta University
Tanju Karanfil, Clemson University
D. Geoffrey Vince, Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute*
Leonard D. Young, Cleveland State University
Todd Headley, Colorado State University
Orin Herskowitz, Columbia University
Alice Li, Cornell University
Eric R. Fossum, Dartmouth College
Frank J. Serna, Draper Laboratory
Donna Marie De Carolis, Drexel University
Lawrence Carin, Duke University*
Marti Van Scott, East Carolina University
Stephanie A. Miller, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Todd Sherer, Emory University
Reis Alsberry, Florida A&M University
Daniel C. Flynn, Florida Atlantic University
Tachung (T.C.) Yih, Florida Gulf Coast University
Frank Kinney, Florida Institute of Technology
Andrés G. Gil, Florida International University
Ghazi Darkazalli, Florida Polytechnic University
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Steven J. Kubisen, The George Washington University
Kevin Wozniak, Georgia Institute of Technology
Alan F. List, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute
Elizabeth Langdon-Gray, Harvard University
Chester Kennedy, The International Consortium for Advanced
Manufacturing Research*
Christopher Fasel, Idaho State University
Alan W. Cramb, Illinois Institute of Technology*
William B. Stephan, Indiana University
Julie Sheppard, Institute for Human & Machine Cognition
Sarah Nusser, Iowa State University*
Loretta A. Moore, Jackson State University
Christy Wyskiel, Johns Hopkins University
Mary Rezac, Kansas State University
Samantha Kahoe, Lehigh University
Kalliat T. Valsaraj, Louisiana State University
Stan A. Napper, Louisiana Tech University
Jeanne Hossenlopp, Marquette University
Marlena Love, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
James Rogers III, Mayo Clinic*
Michael G. Rusnak, Medical University of South Carolina
Richard Chylla, Michigan State University
K. Krishnamurthy, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Rebecca W. Mahurin, Montana State University
Donal O’Shea, New College of Florida
Carl L. Georgeson, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Vimal Chaitanya, New Mexico State University
Warwick A. Arden, North Carolina State University
Tracey Dodenhoff, Northeastern University
Lesley Rigg, Northern Illinois University
James G. Conley, Northwestern University
Arlene Garrison, Oak Ridge Associated Universities
Caroline C. Whitacre, The Ohio State University
Robert Silva, Jr., Ohio University
Steven Price, Oklahoma State University
Richard Miller, Olin College of Engineering
Neil A. Sharkey, The Pennsylvania State University
Stephen Spinelli Jr., Philadelphia University*
*Joined since the last annual meeting of the National Academy of Inventors
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Pablo Debenedetti, Princeton University
Ramanan Krishnamoorti, University of Houston
Jeffrey T. Bolin, Purdue University
John K. McIver, University of Idaho*
Jonathan Dordick, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Lesley Millar-Nicholson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Marie Contou-Carrere, Rice University*
David Conrad, The University of Iowa
Barry Coller, The Rockefeller University
Julie Nagel, University of Kansas
Kenneth Blank, Rowan University
Taunya Phillips Walker, University of Kentucky
S. David Kimball, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
William M. Pierce Jr., University of Louisville
Raymond C. Tait, Saint Louis University
Patrick G. O’Shea, University of Maryland
Kristiina Vuori, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
Robert S. MacWright, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Arthur Daemmrich, Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation
Susan H. Daudelin, University of Massachusetts Boston*
James E. Garvey, Southern Illinois University*
Steven F. Tello, University of Massachusetts Lowell*
Arthur J. Tipton, Southern Research Institute
Christos Christodoulatos, Stevens Institute of Technology
Peter Donnelly, Stony Brook University
Alexis Tapanes-Castillo, St. Thomas University
Stephen G. Nappi, Temple University
Glen A. Laine, Texas A&M University
Rose Ritts, Thomas Jefferson University
Richard A. Houghten, Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies
Larry R. Steranka, Tufts University*
George R. Newkome, The University of Akron
Richard P. Swatloski, The University of Alabama
Richard B. Marchase, The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Doug Hockstad, The University of Arizona
James Rankin, University of Arkansas
Woody Maggard, University at Buffalo, The State University of
New York
Carol Mimura, University of California, Berkeley
Linda P.B. Katehi, University of California, Davis
Emily Waldron Loughran, University of California, Los Angeles
Michael J. Pazzani, University of California, Riverside
Paul W. Roben, University of California, San Diego*
Michael Witherell, University of California, Santa Barbara
Scott Brandt, University of California, Santa Cruz
William Ball, University of Cincinnati
Terri Fiez, University of Colorado Boulder*
Inge Wefes, University of Colorado Denver/AMC
Jeff Seemann, University of Connecticut
Mathew Willenbrink, University of Dayton
David S. Weir, University of Delaware
Jennifer Graban, University of Evansville
Derek E. Eberhart, University of Georgia
Vassilis Syrmos, The University of Hawai’i
David Glass, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth*
James P. McNamara, University of Massachusetts Medical School
James O’Connell, University of Miami
Kenneth J. Nisbet, University of Michigan
Rick Huebsch, University of Minnesota
Henry C. Foley, University of Missouri – Columbia
Lawrence A. Dreyfus, University of Missouri – Kansas City
Nasser Arshadi, University of Missouri – St. Louis
Zachary Miles, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Mridul Gautam, University of Nevada, Reno
Marc C. Sedam, University of New Hampshire
Elizabeth J. Kuuttila, University of New Mexico
Barbara Entwisle, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
Michael F. Moore, The University of North Dakota
John Kantner, University of North Florida
Thomas McCoy, University of North Texas
James H. Bratton, The University of Oklahoma
Laurie Actman, University of Pennsylvania
Marc S. Malandro, University of Pittsburgh
Robert Clark, University of Rochester*
Lynne U. Chronister, The University of South Alabama
Prakash Nagarkatti, University of South Carolina
Randolph Hall, University of Southern California
Gordon C. Cannon, The University of Southern Mississippi
Stacey S. Patterson, The University of Tennessee, Chattanooga*
T. Taylor Eighmy, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Steven R. Goodman, The University of Tennessee, Health Science Center*
Stacey S. Patterson, The University of Tennessee, Martin*
Vistasp M. Karbhari, University of Texas at Arlington
Juan M. Sanchez, The University of Texas at Austin
Bruce E. Gnade, The University of Texas at Dallas
C. Mauli Agrawal, The University of Texas at San Antonio*
*Joined since the last annual meeting of the National Academy of Inventors
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Stephen J. Snider, The University of Toledo
INTERNATIONAL AFFILIATE MEMBERS
Thomas N. Parks, The University of Utah
Fu-Liang Yang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Michael P. Straightiff, University of Virginia
Fiona Wills, University of Washington
Rick Harper, University of West Florida
William Barker, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Mark T. Harris, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Ivelina S. Metcheva, Virginia Commonwealth University
Timothy D. Sands, Virginia Tech
Jeff Brennan, Wake Forest University
Christopher Keane, Washington State University
Shantikumar Nair, Amrita University, India
Michael Cardew-Hall, Australian National University, Australia*
Rivka Carmi, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Ernest B. Izevbigie, Benson Idahosa University, Nigeria
Shinn-Zong Lin, China Medical University, Taiwan
Nicolas Torno, Institut Pasteur, France*
Sir Yoshiaki Sato, Kaatsu International University, Japan
Pan-Chyr Yang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan*
H. Keith Moo-Young, Washington State University Tri Cities
Joaquim Clotet, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil*
H. Holden Thorp, Washington University in St. Louis
Kang Sun, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China*
James E. Smith, West Virginia University*
Chris Lumb, University of Alberta, Canada*
Anthony J. Vizzini, Wichita State University
Mary Shire, University of Limerick, Ireland
Bogdan M. Vernescu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute*
Clement K. Sankat, The University of the West Indies
Robert E. W. Fyffe, Wright State University
T. Kyle Vanderlick, Yale University
*Joined since the last annual meeting of the National Academy of Inventors
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Map of the Grand Hyatt Washington
1000 H St. NW, Washington, DC, 20001
GRAND HYATT
GRAND HYATT WASHINGTON / Lobby Level
The Metro Center Station services the red,
orange, silver and
blue lines.
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10th St. entrance on
the lobby level for
the following events:
Thursday Luncheon
at GW, Thursday
Signature Reception
Gala at the Smithsonian, Friday Fellows
Luncheon and Induction Ceremony at the
USPTO.
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The Early Conference
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Information Table and
President’s Welcome
Reception will be held
on this level Wednesday, April 13.
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held on this level Thursday, April 14 and Friday, April 15.
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Map of the George Washington University Science and Engineering Hall
800 22nd Street NW, Washington, DC, 20052
The buffet luncheon on Thursday, April 14
will be held at the George Washington
University Science and Engineering Hall,
in the Lehman Auditorium. GW staff will
be available to lead tours throughout the
new state-of-the-art facility.
23rd Street NW
I (Eye) Street NW
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Science &
Engineering
Hall
NAI Event
Entrance &
Bus Drop-Off
22nd Street NW
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Visitor Parking
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Map of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History
14th St. NW and Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20001
Constitution Avenue NW
12th Street NW
Smithsonian’s
National Museum
of American History
12th Street Expy
14th Street NW
Event Exit &
Bus Pick-up
Time
9:00–10:00 pm
12th Street NW
Bus transportation for the
Signature Reception Gala on
Thursday, April 14 will leave the
hotel from 6:00 – 6:30 PM and
drop off guests at the Museum’s
Mall entrance. The bus transportation back to the hotel will pick
up from the Museum’s Constitution Avenue Driveway from
9:00 – 10:00 PM.
Event Entrance
& Bus Drop-off Time
6:30-7:00 pm
Madison Drive NW
12th Street Expy
Map of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
600 Dulany St., Alexandria, VA 22314
Bus transportation for the Fellows Luncheon and
Induction Ceremony on April 15 will leave the
hotel from 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM and drop off
guests at the Madison Building, Eisenhower
Entrance. The bus transportation back to the
hotel will pick up from the same location from
3:30 – 4:30 PM for conference attendees and
6:00 – 6:30 PM following the Fellows and guests
only reception.
To King Street Metro Station
Dulany Street
Duke Street
Jameson Av
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Dulany
Gardens
Ballenger Avenue
2015 Fellows Photo Location
Madison
West Building
(Auditorium)
Eisenhower Avenue
To Eisenhower Metro Station
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Parking
Garage
&
East
Event
Entrance
and
Bus Drop-Off
and Pick-up
Carlyle
Townhouse
John Carlyle Street
Elizabeth Lane
Courthouse
Square
Event Parking
551 Carlyle Street
Emerson Avenue
Madison Bldg.
600 Dulany Street
• The National Academy of Inventors Thanks Our Sponsors •
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is the federal agency for granting U.S. patents and registering trademarks. In doing this, the USPTO fulfills the mandate of Article I, Section 8,
Clause 8, of the Constitution to “promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.”
The USPTO also advises the president of the United States, the secretary of commerce, and U.S. government agencies on intellectual property policy (IP) and promotes stronger and more effective IP protection around the world.
The Lemelson Foundation uses the power of invention to improve lives, by inspiring and enabling the
next generation of inventors and invention based enterprises to promote economic growth in the U.S.
and social and economic progress for the poor in developing countries. Established by prolific U.S.
inventor Jerome Lemelson and his wife Dorothy in 1992, to date the Foundation has provided or committed more than $175 million in grants and PRIs in support of its mission. For more information,
visit http://lemelson.org.
The Florida High Tech Corridor Council (The Corridor) is a regional economic development initiative
of the University of Central Florida (UCF), the University of South Florida (USF) and the University
of Florida (UF) whose mission is to grow high tech industry and innovation through partnerships that
support research, marketing, workforce and partnerships. The Corridor includes more than 25 local
and regional economic development organizations and 14 state/community colleges. It is co-chaired
by the presidents of UCF, USF and UF.
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Thomas Jefferson University (TJU), the largest freestanding academic medical center in Philadelphia,
is nationally renowned for medical and health sciences education and innovative research. Founded in
1824, TJU includes Jefferson Medical College (JMC), one of the largest private medical schools in the
country and ranked among the nation’s best medical schools by U.S. News & World Report, and the Jefferson Schools of Nursing, Pharmacy, Health Professions, Population Health and the Graduate School
of Biomedical Sciences. Jefferson University Physicians is TJU’s multi-specialty physician practice consisting of the full-time faculty of JMC. Thomas Jefferson University partners with its clinical affiliate,
Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals
In the heart of our nation’s capital with additional programs in Virginia, the George Washington University (GW) was created by an Act of Congress in 1821. Today, GW is the largest institution of higher
education in the District of Columbia. The university offers comprehensive programs of undergraduate
and graduate liberal arts study, as well as degree programs in medicine, public health, law, engineering,
education, business and international affairs. Each year, GW enrolls a diverse population of undergraduate, graduate and professional students from across the country and around the world.
The University of Maryland (UMD) is the state’s flagship university and one of the nation’s preeminent
public research universities. A global leader in research, entrepreneurship and innovation, the university is home to more than 37,000 students, 9,000 faculty and staff, and 250 academic programs. Its faculty includes three Nobel laureates, three Pulitzer Prize winners, 47 members of the national academies
and scores of Fulbright scholars. The University of Maryland plays a critical national role in advancing our health, security, and quality of life by developing comprehensive, interdisciplinary solutions to
global problems. The institution has a $1.8 billion operating budget and secures $550 million annually
in external research funding. The University of Maryland is ranked No. 19 among public universities
and No. 21 for most innovative schools by U.S. News & World Report, as well as No. 16 among public
universities by Forbes. According to The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur Magazine, UMD is ranked
No. 10 overall for undergraduate entrepreneurship programs.
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The Johns Hopkins University is a global leader in discovery, education and professional practice, dedicated since 1876 to putting knowledge to work for humanity. Johns Hopkins was established on what
was then a revolutionary idea, that universities must do more than teach the collected wisdom of the
past. Founding President Daniel Coit Gilman argued that they must also advance human knowledge
and apply that knowledge for the common good. Gilman’s philosophy guides today’s Johns Hopkins,
where faculty and students are partners in learning and discovery. Together, they explore what makes us
human – culture and society, art and literature, life science, health and medicine. Together, they study
what drives the universe where we live. Together, they use their knowledge to make tomorrow better.
For more information, please visit www.jhu.edu.
Established in 1789, Georgetown is the nation’s oldest Catholic and Jesuit university. Drawing upon
this legacy, we provide students with a world-class learning experience focused on educating the whole
person through exposure to different faiths, cultures and beliefs. With our Jesuit values and location in
Washington, D.C., Georgetown offers students a distinct opportunity to learn, experience and understand more about the world. Learn more at www.georgetown.edu.
Syngenta is a leading agriculture company helping to improve global food security by enabling millions
of farmers to make better use of available resources. Through world class science and innovative crop
solutions, our 28,000 people in over 90 countries are working to transform how crops are grown. We
are committed to rescuing land from degradation, enhancing biodiversity and revitalizing rural communities. To learn more visit www.syngenta.com and www.goodgrowthplan.com. Follow us on Twitter® at www.twitter.com/Syngenta and www.twitter.com/SyngentaUS.
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Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is the premier legal advisor to technology, life sciences, and other
growth enterprises worldwide. We represent companies at every stage of development, from entrepreneurial start-ups to multibillion-dollar global corporations, as well as the venture firms, private equity
firms, and investment banks that finance and advise them. The firm's broad range of services and practice areas are focused on addressing the principal challenges faced by the management, boards of directors, shareholders, and in-house counsel of our clients. The firm is nationally recognized for providing high-quality services to address the legal solutions required by its enterprise and financial institution clients. Our services include corporate law and governance, public and private offerings of equity
and debt securities, mergers and acquisitions, securities class action litigation, intellectual property litigation, antitrust counseling and litigation, joint ventures and strategic alliances, technology licensing
and other intellectual property transactions, tax, and employee benefits and employment law, among
other areas. Our distinguished international roster of clients span a wide variety of industries, including information technology, life sciences, energy and clean technology, media and entertainment, communications, retail, and financial services. For more information visit www.wsgr.com
With a history of 75 years, Klarquist is one of the oldest and largest full-service intellectual property
boutique firms in the Pacific Northwest. Klarquist professionals offer clients both technical expertise
and legal experience in all facets of intellectual property acquisition, licensing, and litigation in virtually any area of technology. Klarquist represents a broad range of clients, from solo inventors to midsize companies, to some of the largest, most prestigious companies in the world.
KULPER & COMPANY, LLC
KULPER & COMPANY, LLC is an executive search firm, founded in 1997, focused on assuring that
our clients attract and hire the right leaders for their most important leadership positions. We have
many years of experience working with universities, institutes, companies and not-for-profit organizations that operate at the edge of discovery and new product delivery. When our clients need to hire
a person with the technical know-how, people skills and proven problem solving abilities, we produce
the results they need in a timely and cost effective manner. We pride ourselves on our proven ability
to quickly introduce extraordinary candidates who match very closely with the exacting requirements
of our clients. We particularly welcome inquiries from new clients associated with the NAI and will be
pleased to arrange for a confidential discussion during the 2016 conference to review your important
hiring needs. Please visit www.kulpercompany.com for more information, or contact President Keith
D. Kulper directly at (973) 285-3850.
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Bey & Cotropia PLLC’s core practice is U.S. and non-U.S. patent prosecution, patent portfolio management and related proceedings before the United States Patent & Trademark Office. We have prepared
and prosecuted hundreds of patent applications across a wide range of technologies, industries and clients, including, for example, financial institutions, defense contractors, software developers and providers, gaming companies, semiconductor companies, the oil & gas industry, smart grid companies and
universities. Our experience includes ex parte and inter partes reexamination (now review) proceedings, pre-issuance third party submissions, accelerated examination and in-depth knowledge of Patent
Office rules and procedures. Additionally, we have substantial experience with pre-enforcement issues
including portfolio vetting and analysis for assertion as well as threat consideration and response and
opinions. We also conduct intellectual property due diligence and agreement drafting in support of
licensing ventures, mergers & acquisitions, investment review and spin-offs.
Pabst Patent Group LLP is an intellectual property law firm specializing in biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and chemical intellectual property law. We counsel our clients in the acquisition, protection and
commercialization of intellectual property.
Our firm was founded over a decade ago by a group of patent attorneys who, after working in large
international law firms for many years, realized that they could better serve the needs of their clients in
a specialized boutique environment. We provide high quality legal services with the same support network and safeguards as are found in large law firms, but without the cost and inherent conflict problems.
The depth and breadth of our experience, the quality of our work, our business approach to intellectual property management and our ability to provide sophisticated intellectual property legal services
in a cost effective manner sets us apart from other firms.
Ropes & Gray is one of the world’s premier law firms, with approximately 1,200 lawyers serving clients
in major centers of business, finance, technology and government. The firm has offices in New York,
Washington, D.C., Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, London, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Seoul
and Tokyo. It is consistently recognized for leading practices in many areas, including private equity,
M&A, finance, investment management, hedge funds, private investment funds, real estate, tax, life sciences, health care, intellectual property, litigation, securities litigation, and government enforcement.
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The Office of Innovation Development
at the United States Patent and Trademark Office
The USPTO is proud to collaborate with the
National Academy of Inventors and
congratulates the 2016 fellows. Visit
www.uspto.gov/inventors to learn more
about how the USPTO supports academic
and independent inventors through its
Office of Innovation Development.
Join Us in Delaware
Please join us May 26-27 for the Women’s Entrepreneurship Symposium at the Smithsonian’s
Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, Delaware. Experience two days of exciting
discussion, workshops, and networking to broaden the horizon of women working in STEM,
business, and beyond. For more information and see a list of all upcoming USPTO events, visit
www.uspto.gov/events.
Help Strengthen Patent Quality
Are you conducting groundbreaking work or research that moves humanity into new
technological frontiers? The Patent Examiner Technical Training Program is looking for experts
to lecture and provide technical training and expertise to our examiners. Presentations are
voluntary and may be delivered online or in-person at USPTO headquarters or one of our
regional offices across the country. Visit www.uspto.gov/patents/pettp.jsp for more info.
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Jefferson is a proud supporter of the
National Academy of Inventors
2016 Annual Conference
With some fearless thinking and optimism, Jefferson is reimagining health, health education and discovery.
We’re translating breakthrough research into practical applications and advancing the commercialization of
new technologies. Discovery is part of our DNA — and has been for nearly 200 years!
Learn more about Jefferson’s great minds and the amazing things happening here at
Jefferson.edu/innovation.
HOME OF SIDNEY KIMMEL MEDICAL COLLEGE
Dr. Nader Engheta
2016 National Academy of Inventors Fellow
Penn Engineering celebrates Dr. Engheta’s
legacy of innovation in the fields of nanooptics
and nanophotonics, metamaterials and
plasmonics, and optical nanostructures.
School of Engineering and Applied Science | University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | www.seas.upenn.edu
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BOUNDLESS INNOVATION
The University of Arizona congratulates two very special
2015 Fellow Inductees to the National Academy of Inventors.
Thank you for impact and inspiration.
Photo credit: Jacob Chinn
Dr. Marvin J. Slepian
James C. Wyant, Ph.D.
Inventor of therapeutic solutions based on polymeric
biomaterials such as drug-eluting stents, tissue “paving,”
stent coatings and tissue sealants, and cardiovascular
prosthetic devices including the total artificial heart.
Named inventor on 52 patents and applications.
Pioneer in the fields of phase shifting interferometry,
multiple wavelength interferometry, vertical scanning
interferometry and holography.
Named inventor on 10 patents.
UA Health
Sciences
#UAimpact
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Tech Launch
Arizona
UA College of
Optical Sciences
www.arizona.edu
2016 NAI Fellow
Inductees
Bala Subramaniam
Dan F. Servey Distinguished Professor
Department of Chemical & Petroleum Engineering
University of Kansas School of Engineering
Valentino Stella
University Distinguished Professor
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of Kansas School of Pharmacy
Congratulations
From your friends and colleagues at the University of Kansas
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INNOVATION
INVENT RESEARCH ACHIEVEMENT
DEVELOPMENT ACCOMPLISHMENT
ORIGINATION
ECONOMIC IMPACT CONCEPTION PATENT DESIGN
The NJIT Community congratulates
Atam P. Dhawan
Vice Provost for Research
Distinguished Professor of Electrical and
Computer Engineering
Somenath Mitra
Acting Chair, Professor and
Director of Graduate Program
Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and
Environmental Science
for receiving the prestigious
distinction of being named a
National Academy of Inventors Fellow.
njit.edu
UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS
NEWARK, NEW JERSEY 07102-1982
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University of Delaware College of Engineering congratulates
NORMAN J. WAGNER
2015 FELLOW of THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF INVENTORS
Professor Wagner joins other NAI Fellows from the University of Delaware
Patrick T. Harker (2012) | John G. Elias (2013) | Wayne C. Westerman (2013)
Babatunde A. Ogunnaike (2014) | Richard F. Heck (2015)
College of Engineering
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL &
BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING
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Proudly congratulates
E. Albert Reece
2015 NAI Fellow Inductees
E. Albert Reece, MD, PhD, MBA
Vice President and Dean, University of Maryland
and
Robert E. Fischell, ScD
Member, University of Maryland School of Medicine Board of Visitors
Robert E. Fischell
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The University of Miami
Congratulates
2015 NAI Fellow Inductee
Andrew V. Schally
The University of Houston
College of Pharmacy
congratulates
2015 NAI Fellow Inductee
Dr. Diana S-L. Chow
U make us proud!
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Research and Innovation Colleagues
at the University of Kansas
Congratulate and Celebrate
2016 NAI Fellow Inductees
Dr. Valentino Stella
and
Dr. Bala Subramaniam
CONGRATULATES
Dr. Jay Whitacre
Congratulations
to our newest NAI Fellow
2015 NAI Fellow Inductee
• Founder of Aquion Energy
• Inventor of the Aqueous
Hybrid IonTM Battery
ROBERT C. DEAN, JR.
Inventor, Professor, Mentor
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NOTES
NOTES
COMMON ABBREVIATIONS
AAA&S....... American Academy of Arts and Sciences
AAAS.......... American Association for the Advancement of Science
AAIC........... The Association for the Advancement of Industrial Crops
ACS.............. American Chemical Society
AIChE......... American Institute of Chemical Engineers
AIST............ Association for Iron & Steel Technology
AIMBE........ American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
APS.............. American Physical Society
ASEE........... American Society for Engineering Education
ASME.......... American Society of Mechanical Engineers
ASM............. American Society for Metals
BMES.......... Biomedical Engineering Society
DARPA........ Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
DHS............. United States Department of Homeland Security
FDA............. U.S. Food and Drug Administration
IEEE............. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
ITE............... International Institute of Transportation Engineers
MRS............. Materials Research Society
NAE............. National Academy of Engineering
NAM........... National Academy of Medicine
NAS............. National Academy of Sciences
NIH............. National Institutes of Health
NIHF........... National Inventors Hall of Fame
NSF.............. National Science Foundation
OSA............. Optical Society of America
SFB............... Society for Biomaterials
SPIE............. International Society of Optical Engineering
U.S. DOE.... United States Department of Energy
USDA.......... United States Department of Agriculture
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TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION
Journal of the National Academy of Inventors
Technology and Innovation (T&I)
presents information encompassing
the entire field of applied sciences,
with a special focus on transformative
technology and academic innovation.
Regular features of T&I include
commentaries contributed by the
United States Patent and Trademark
Office and in-depth profiles of Fellows
of the National Academy of Inventors .
ISSN 1949-8241 • ESSN 1949-825X
Volume 18, Number 1
®
Editors-in-Chief:
Paul R. Sanberg
University of South Florida
Eric R. Fossum
Dartmouth College
Senior Editors:
Howard J. Federoff
University of California, Irvine
Nasser Arshadi
University of Missouri, Saint Louis
4 issues per year
ISSN 1949-8241 • ESSN 1949-825X
For questions or to submit a manuscript
contact T&I at +1-813-974-1347
or tijournal@academyofinventors.org
Evolution of
N e u r o i m a g i n g Te c h n o l o g y
Diffusion-based Quantitative Fiber Bundle Lengths
15
Advances in Direct Current Stimulation
38
The Emerging Field of Perivascular Flow Dynamics
60
www.technologyandinnovation.org
MICHAEL BASS, University of Central Florida
ISSA BATARSEH, University of Central Florida
RAYMOND J. BERGERON, University of Florida
SHEKHAR BHANSALI, Florida International University
ROBERT H. BYRNE, University of South Florida
SELIM A. CHACOUR, University of South Florida
WILLIAM J. CLANCEY, Institute for Human and
Machine Cognition
ROY CURTISS III, University of Florida
WILLIAM S. DALTON, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer &
Research Institute
PETER J. DELFYETT, University of Central Florida
DONN M. DENNIS, University of Florida
DAVID M. EDDY, University of South Florida
GREGG B. FIELDS, Florida Atlantic University
KENNETH M. FORD, Institute for Human &
Machine Cognition
MICHAEL W. FOUNTAIN, University of South Florida
RICHARD D. GITLIN, University of South Florida
LEONID B. GLEBOV, University of Central Florida
D. YOGI GOSWAMI, University of South Florida
CLIFFORD M. GROSS, University of South Florida
BARBARA C. HANSEN, University of South Florida
RICHARD A. HOUGHTEN, Torrey Pines Institute for
Molecular Studies
LONNIE O. INGRAM, University of Florida
S. SITHARAMA IYENGAR, Florida International
University
RICHARD JOVE, Nova Southeastern University
SAKHRAT KHIZROEV, Florida International University
DAVID C. LARBALESTIER, Florida State University
G. DOUGLAS LETSON, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer &
Research Institute
INNOVATION CAN BE DIFFICULT
TO CREATE and more difficult to
sustain. For the past 5 years, the
National Academy of Inventors
has sustained and grown as an
organization that recognizes and
encourages invention.
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE NAI FOR 5 YEARS
OF GROWTH and to these Florida inventors
honored to be called NAI Fellows.
proud to
partner
with the
GUIFANG LI, University of Central Florida
STEPHEN B. LIGGETT, University of South Florida
ALAN F. LIST, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer & Research Institute
DEAN F. MARTIN, University of South Florida
THOMAS O. MENSAH, Florida State University
SHYAM MOHAPATRA, University of South Florida
BRIJ M. MOUDGIL, University of Florida
DAVID P. NORTON, University of Florida
VICTOR L. POIRIER, University of South Florida
ANN PROGULSKE-FOX, University of Florida
ALAIN T. RAPPAPORT, Institute for Human and
Machine Cognition
PAUL R. SANBERG, University of South Florida
W. GREGORY SAWYER, University of Florida
ANDREW V. SCHALLY, University of Miami
SUDIPTA SEAL, University of Central Florida
SAID M. SEBTI, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer &
Research Institute
MARWAN A. SIMAAN, University of Central Florida
FRANKY SO, University of Florida
M. J. SOILEAU, University of Central Florida
NAN-YAO SU, University of Florida
HERBERT WEISSBACH, Florida Atlantic University
SHIN-TSON WU, University of Central Florida
JAMES J. WYNNE, University of South Florida
JANET K. YAMAMOTO, University of Florida
JIANPING (JIM) P. ZHENG, Florida State University
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