Office of Research Honors Faculty for Research Achievements

This month, the Office of Research held its Recognition Reception, an event which honored Washington State University’s top industry engaged researchers in 2017.

New Technologies Licenses

• Bruce Barritt and Katherine Evans, WA 38 “Cosmic Crisp”®
• Steven Ullrich, 04WA-113.22 two-row spring barley “Elise”
• Arron Carter, WA8180 standard height hard red winter wheat “Sequoia”
• Stephen Jones, WA8092 Soft White Winter Wheat “Otto”
• Michael Pumphrey, WA8074 Hard Red Spring Wheat “Glee”
• Amit Dhingra, Control of Ripening and Senescence in Pre-harvest and Post-harvest Plant Organs
• Patrick Moore, Gem (WSU 1605) Raspberry and Cascade Belle (WSU1607) Raspberry
• Jon Oatley, NANOS Knock-out that ablates germline cells
• Jinwen Zhang, Mild chemical degradation of thermosetting polymers using heteropoly acid and Lewis acid as catalysts
• Weihong (Katie) Zhong, Protein-based Nanofabrics as Multi-functional “Green” Air Filtering Materials for High Efficiency Particulate and Toxic Chemical Filtration
• Mani V. Venkatasubramanian, Angular Stability Monitoring
• Lawrence Holder and Diane Cook, Real-Time Generalizable Smart Phone-Based Activity Recognition
• Benjamin Shors, The Blackfeet Flood Documentary
• Jeffrey Kensrud, Flex grip sports ball pitching machine tip
• Yuehe Lin and Annie Du, Hybrid Nanoflowers for Bioassay
• Boel Fransson, Laproscopic surgical skill assessment tool for Veterinarians

New Industry Partnerships

• Gregory Belenky and United Airlines
• Karl Englund and Boeing
• Felix Lankester and Merck & Company
• Min Kyu Song and Samsung Electronics Company, Ltd.
• Saeed Lotfifard and Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories
• Anurag K. Srivastava and Siemens Corporation
• Jennifer Zambriski and Bayer
• Hans Van Dongen and Jazz Pharmaceuticals
• Jinwen Zhang and Jiangsu Citic Century New Materials, Ltd.
• Christopher John Davis and Neurodetective International
• Hakan Gurocak and Ossur
• Naidu A. Rayapati and Washington Wine Advisory Committee
• Santanu Bose and Spring Bank Pharmaceuticals

Katrina Mealey was also recognized for her MDR1 gene mutation detection technology, which achieved over $1 million in revenue.