T
he National Academy of InventorsÂŽ is a 501(c)(3) non-profit member organization
comprising U.S. and international universities, and governmental and non-profit research institutes, with over 4,000 individual inventor members and Fellows spanning more than 250 institutions worldwide. 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.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
From the President.................................2 Points of Pride........................................3 NAI Federal Charter...............................4 NAI Publications....................................7 NAI Growth..........................................37
Interview: USPTO’s Andrew Faile..........5 History of the NAI..................................6 Annual Conference..............................20 Student Showcase...............................21 Academy Partners................................25
Fellows Program....................................8 Institutional Membership....................12
Arizona State University......................10 Auburn University................................11 New York University............................14 Texas Tech University...........................15 University of California, Irvine.............18 University of Central Florida................19 University of Florida.............................22 University of Nebraska-Lincoln............23 University of South Florida..................24
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University Members International Affiliates Government Agencies Research Institutes
Individual Membership........................13 Local NAI Chapters..............................16 List of Current NAI Fellows..................26 NAI Member Institutions.....................34
2017-2018
NAI Board of Directors and Officers Paul R. Sanberg, President University of South Florida Howard J. Federoff, Vice President University of California, Irvine Sudeep Sarkar, Treasurer University of South Florida Karen J.L. Burg University of Georgia Arthur Daemmrich Smithsonian Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation Elizabeth L. Dougherty, Ex Officio United States Patent and Trademark Office Robert V. Duncan Texas Tech University Eric R. Fossum Dartmouth College Sethuraman Panchanathan Arizona State University Stephen D. Russell, Ex Officio Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command
NAI Staff Keara Leach Director Spencer Montgomery Director of Development Lauren Maradei Assistant Program Director Kimberly Macuare Associate Editor Technology and Innovation Autumn Pandolfo Special Projects Coordinator Terrance Anderson Administrative Fiscal Specialist Lauren Moseley Marketing & Communications Specialist Sia Salimi Khatibi Database Coordinator
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FROM THE PRESIDENT Dear Friends: On behalf of the NAI Board of Directors, it is my distinct pleasure to present the 2017 Activities Report of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Inside this publication you will find a comprehensive review of the many important initiatives led by the NAI in support of academic innovation. We invite you to read more about how the Academy challenges the academic culture to celebrate innovation and embrace inventive faculty, particularly for the important role patents, licensing and commercialization plays in bolstering the nation. We are proud to report that the NAI has experienced another remarkable year of growth and development. The NAI is now represented by over 4,000 individual inventors. Moreover, following the induction of the 2016 class of Fellows at the 2017 Annual Conference, the NAI Fellows Program now includes 757 prolific academic inventors from more than 250 distinguished institutions across the world. With the reintroduction of H.R. 976—a bill to grant a Federal Charter to the NAI—the National Academy of Inventors is establishing a growing presence on Capitol Hill. As a chartered organization, the NAI would serve as a resource to the federal government on topics of innovation, intellectual property, and translational research and commercialization. Sharing more than 26,500 issued U.S. patents and over 9,400 licensed technologies and companies, NAI Fellows hold a wealth of knowledge and experience that will greatly benefit the American public. Thanks to our members, H.R. 976 is building momentum, but we need your help to further this legislation. If your local representatives have not yet signed on as cosponsors, we hope you will encourage them to do so and NAI staff are happy to assist with this. We look forward to this unique opportunity to take an active role in public policy as innovation experts. Looking back over the past year, I am inspired by how much our young Academy has accomplished. Thank you to our members, partners and friends for their continued support. It is an honor to lead this pioneering organization and we look forward to many years of continued collaboration. Sincerely,
Paul R. Sanberg, Ph.D., D.Sc., FNAI President
Revolutionizing the National Dialogue
POINTS of PRIDE The NAI was founded in 2010 to recognize
NAI members are optimizing cybersecurity, discovering new ecosystems and revolutionizing drug discovery
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
The inventions of NAI Fellows have collectively created over 1.3M jobs, 8,900 companies and $137B in revenue
of intellectual property, educate and mentor innovative students and translate the inventions of its members to benefit society.
The winning invention of the 2017 NAI Student Innovation Showcase is a wearable EEG device for epileptic children
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Revolutionizing the National Dialogue
H.R. 976, a bill to grant a Federal Charter to the National Academy of Inventors, was introduced in February 2017. This bipartisan legislation recognizes the importance of the NAI’s mission of advancing a culture where academic innovation is celebrated for its role in fueling our nation’s economy.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS 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, our nation’s 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. What is the cost of this bill? There is no cost associated with granting a Federal Charter to the National Academy of Inventors. 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.
“Let’s commit to further championing our nation’s researchers through the NAI and federal investments that will promote new discoveries, bolster our economy and create higher-paying jobs for our communities.” —U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor (D-FL-14)
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“We are greatly indebted to innovators such as [NAI Fellows] for contributions to society through their inventions. I commend these individuals, and the organizations and taxpayers that support them, for the work they do to revolutionize the world we live in.” —U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX-21)
Innovation Community
An Interview with the USPTO’s
ANDREW FAILE
Deputy Commissioner for Patent Operations INTRODUCTION
Andrew Faile is Deputy Commissioner for Patent
Operations at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). He received his B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland and began working at the USPTO as a patent examiner in 1989. His work as a patent examiner and later as a Supervisory Patent Examiner exposed him to cutting edge technology in the field of electronics during a period that spanned the evolution of analog to digital. As Deputy Commissioner, Mr. Faile is responsible for all aspects of the examining process and the over 8,000 men and women who examine U.S. patent applications.
INTERVIEW NAI: Andy, thank you for taking the time to speak today. Please tell us about personal relationship with the NAI. Faile: Over the past several years I have had the opportunity to speak at the NAI Annual Conference and participate in the Fellows Induction Ceremony. That experience and my personal interaction with individual members of the organization have given me a greater appreciation for the importance of what Dr. Paul Sanberg and other members of the academic inventor community have done in creating the Academy. NAI: The NAI was founded to recognize and encourage inventors with issued U.S. patents. In 2016, the NAI formalized its strong relationship with the USPTO by signing an official Memorandum of Agreement (MOA). How has this partnership opened new opportunities for the USPTO to collaborate with academic inventors? Faile: The USPTO has a long history of supporting inventor recognition programs like the NAI that promote the important role patented inventions play in our society. The MOA has provided a framework for the USPTO and NAI to partner in developing programs for young aspiring inventors and educating the public about the vital role that the intellectual property protection system plays in the advancement of technology. We want to grow and expand upon these efforts in the future.
One especially important area I would like to focus on is training for our patent examiners. We have an established program, the Patent Examiner Technical Training Program (PETTP), which brings inventors and other outside technology experts into the USPTO to help our examiners better understand new technologies to enhance their ability in conducting the examination of patent applications. The Academy is in a unique position to help us tap the expertise of the academic invention community to assist us to further that goal. At the same time this will enable all of us at the USPTO to better understand the special needs of academic inventors. NAI: As Arthur Molella describes in his “History of the National Academy of Inventors,” inventors and academics have had a long and fraught relationship in the United States. How has the inception of the NAI impacted this dynamic, and how does this complement the USPTO’s mission? Faile: During my professional career at the USPTO I have become aware of the fact that there is a difference between pure research and those who seek to invent and patent technology developed in the academic environment. The Academy has helped bridge that divide by recognizing and creating a better understanding of how the practical application of research can benefit academic institutions and society as a whole. NAI: There is currently a great deal of uncertainty within the scientific community. Moving forward, how do the USPTO and NAI work together to support and strengthen the academic innovation community? Faile: The National Academy of Inventors has accomplished a great deal in a brief period of time. At the same time the NAI has given us at the USPTO and our peers a better understanding of the work done in the academic community. The USPTO looks forward to working closely with the organization in the future to support and strengthen academic innovation. Interview conducted by Richard Maulsby.
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Innovation Community
History of the National Academy of Inventors Arthur Molella, Smithsonian Institution Technology and Innovation, Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 235-244, 2017 Early in 2009, Paul Sanberg, senior vice president for research, innovation, and knowledge enterprise at the University of South Florida, issued a campus-wide invitation to all colleagues who had interests in invention and held at least one U.S. patent. He discovered that colleagues who were inventing did so essentially as a sideline, receiving little if any support or recognition from the administration—least of all from tenure and promotion committees. Within a year, Sanberg and others, including Howard Federoff, then of Georgetown University, moved forward on his concept of the National Academy of Inventors. He and Howard met with Richard Maulsby of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and later with David Kappos, Under Secretary of Commerce and Patent Office Director, both of whom supported the idea of the NAI. Sanberg discovered there was a demand out there, not only within the University of South Florida but also around the nation. The National Academy of Inventors was formally launched in 2010 at an inaugural meeting at USF in Tampa with David Kappos. The National Academy of Inventors’ boldly ecumenical philosophy raises a pressing question: Is it time to finally tear down the cultural barriers between science and invention and between academia and the broader community of innovation? The benefits of breaking down the barriers between pure and applied research are obvious to the members of the NAI.
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(Pictured: David Kappos, Former Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO, with NAI President Paul Sanberg)
Revolutionizing the National Dialogue
NAI PUBLICATIONS I
n less than a decade, the NAI has directed a major paradigm shift within academe in support of faculty patents, licensing and commercialization activity.
• The national dialogue on academic innovation rose to prominence at the 2013 NAI Annual Conference Insight from a panel discussion on changing the academic cul ture was later published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences • Several organizations have since joined the conversation on university intellectual property management APLU Task Force on Tenure, Promotion, and Technology Transfer AAU Work Group on Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property n
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The NAI continues this conversation with several important publications, detailed below.
Technology and Innovation, Journal of the National Academy of Inventors Technology and Innovation (T&I) contains scientific research articles, policy commentaries, and a feature from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in every issue. T&I has taken the lead in many important policy conversations, including the role of technology transfer activities in tenure and promotion; the management of intellectual property; and the multi-faceted benefits of technology transfer for universities and society at large. Special topics for 2017 will include the gender gap in invention, innovation and entrepreneurship, curricula for technology and innovation and the annual conference issue.
Top 100 Worldwide Universities Granted U.S. Utility Patents The NAI and Intellectual Property Owners Association have published the Top 100 rankings annually since 2013 to highlight the important role patents play in university research and innovation. The 2016 edition was released in June 2017. The Academy is proud to have 68 of the Top 100 as NAI Member Institutions.
Concept to Commercialization: The Best Universities for Technology Transfer The Milken Institute released a new report in April 2017 that ranks the top 225 universities across the United States for their progress in developing basic research into new technologies, products and companies. The NAI is proud to have 23 of the top 25 U.S. universities for technology transfer & commercialization among our membership.
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FELLOWS PROGRAM E
lection to NAI Fellow status is the highest professional distinction accorded solely to academic inventors who have a prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development and the welfare of society. Nominees must be a named inventor on patent(s) issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office and must be affiliated with a university, non-profit research institute or other academic entity. Nominations are open each year from July 1–October 1.
National Academy of Inventors Fellows Program includes:
recipients of the U.S. National Medal of Technology and Innovation and U.S. National Medal of Science
of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
presidents and senior leaders of research universities and non-profit research institutes
inductees of the National Inventors Hall of Fame
AAAS Fellows
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
IEEE Fellows Statistics derived from self-reported data by 757 current NAI Fellows as of May 2017.
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NAI FELLOWS IMPACT: NAI Fellows have generated more than
NAI Fellows represent nearly
230
in revenue generated by the inventions of Fellows
UNIVERSITIES and non-profit research institutes worldwide
OVER 1.3 MILLION JOBS CREATED as a result of NAI Fellow Inventions
OPFOER N BUSINESS
8,900 COMPANIES FORMED
Involvement of more than
23,000 STUDENTS
Collectively the 757 Fellows hold more than
26,500 PATENTS
Statistics derived from self-reported data by 757 current NAI Fellows as of May 2017.
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Spotlight on Innovation
Arizona State University:
Engineering Electronics for Greater Security Michael Kozicki, Ph.D., FNAI, is professor of electrical engineering at Arizona State University (ASU) in the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering. With expertise in solid state electronics and nanoionics, he conducts research on integrated and solid-state nanoionics, low-energy non-volatile memories, and a new anti-counterfeiting technology based on dendritic identifiers. Currently, Kozicki is applying his expertise to improving electronics security. In one study, Kozicki is exploring the effects of radiation-caused mutations in computing systems. Just like our cells, electronic materials are susceptible to negative effects from radiation, which can cause unexpected behaviors and breakdown. The project team is working to understand radiation susceptibility and resilience in neuromorphic computing platforms, which are capable of processing speeds similar to the human brain. This type of brain-like computing platform holds enormous potential in space and defense applications where radiation exposure is all but guaranteed. By better understanding the effects of radiation on these systems, the team hopes to speed the development of radiation-hardened neuromorphic computing architectures. The project is a collaboration with Sandia National Laboratories, which is funded by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. Kozicki also leads a multi-university project leveraging his own patented technologies to prevent security breaches through counterfeit electronics parts. The project aims to find new ways to authenticate hardware for cybersecurity purposes using electronic “fingerprint” technology. Using Kozicki’s memory technology, the team has found two ways to derive uniquely identifying “fingerprints” on a chip—one 10 | 2017 NAI Activities Report
via the electronic elements and another via the physical components. Using these chip “fingerprints,” the team is developing new cybersecurity methods to prevent theft and corruption of information while keeping counterfeit parts out of critical applications such as aircraft, cars and medical devices. Kozicki has developed entrepreneurship-infused undergraduate and graduate courses in solid state electronics, is a frequent invited speaker at international meetings and has made several television appearances to promote public understanding of science. He has extensive international ties, including as a visiting professor at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, adjunct professor at Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology in Korea and also holds the professional designation of chartered engineer in the UK/EU. He has served as interim and founding director of entrepreneurial programs and director of the Center for Solid State Electronics Research in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at ASU. Kozicki received a B.S. and Ph.D., both in electronics and electrical engineering, from the University of Edinburgh. He holds more than 75 U.S. and foreign patents in solid state technology, and has produced over 200 academic papers and presentations which have been cited nearly 9,000 times. He is inventor of the Programmable Metallization Cell, a computer memory technology developed to replace the widely used flash memory due to its longer lifetimes, lower power and improved memory density. Kozicki is also a founder of Axon Technologies Corp. and Idendrix, Inc., and served as chief scientist of Silicon Valley start-up Adesto Technologies.
Spotlight on Innovation
Auburn University:
Using Beneficial Bacteria to Promote Plant Growth and Provide Biological Disease Control
Joseph Kloepper, Ph.D., is a professor in the department of entomology and plant pathology at Auburn University. Prior to coming to Auburn University in 1979, he was with Allelix Agriculture in Mississauga, Ontario, where he served as senior research scientist in an agricultural microbiology group. Before that, he was an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He was selected as Alumni Professor at Auburn University and was invited to be the keynote speaker at the Second International Congress on Biostimulants in Agriculture (Florence, Italy) in November 2015. He also was keynote speaker at the International Symposium: “Microbe-Assisted Crop Production—Opportunities, Challenges, and Needs,” in Vienna, Austria. In addition, he has received the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station Director’s Research Award, the Auburn University College of Agriculture Dean’s Grantsmanship Award, and the Excellence in Innovation Award from the Auburn University Chapter of the National Academy of Inventors. Kloepper conducts research on beneficial bacteria to promote plant growth and provide biological disease control of crop plants. More specifically, his research focuses on the use of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) for promoting plant growth, plant health, and nutrient uptake. The emphasis is on various species and strains of the spore-forming bacilli because spores of these PGPR remain viable as seed treatments for a long period of time, thereby increasing the opportunities of integrating the PGPR into current agricultural practices. Modes of action are studied, and effects on plant pathogens as well as plant-damaging insects are evaluated in collaborations with other faculty in the College of Agriculture at Auburn
University. Utility of the various bacterial strains includes increasing root growth, enhancing crop uptake of soil nutrients, increasing tolerance to drought, attracting beneficial insects, repelling destructive insects, and combating other pests or disease-causing agents such as nematodes, bacteria, and fungi. Various strains of rhizobacteria have been demonstrated to show improvements in crop yield. Research into rhizobacteria as inputs to agriculture is actively conducted worldwide. For years the work was mainly conducted in universities and other public sector laboratories. Beginning in the 1990s, a few companies developed products consisting of rhizobacteria, but commercialization was slow. In recent years, there has been a swelling of commercial interest in using rhizobacteria. This interest is fueled by the rapidly growing middle classes in China and India and by the uses of food commodities as energy crops. The call for greener, more organic crop treatments to replace harsh chemicals has also served to drive the market. Consequently, Kloepper’s work has had a breakthrough in potential commercial applications. One strain has been licensed for use as a biofertilizer and biopesticide in numerous seed and soil applications. Another license is under negotiation with a different company for additional applications. In fiscal year 2014 alone, his PGPR library was the subject of two license agreements and three option agreements—all with different companies. One of the agreements even branched out into a new area: improved production in aquaculture. Kloepper and his colleagues also have developed additional bacterial libraries of strains from long-term crop rotations and other sources. NAI Activities Report 2017 | 11
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Over 3,300 U.S. patents
Our Members
MEMBERSHIP
FACTS IN BRIEF
Over $ 555 Billion
economic impact by Member Institutions in 2016
granted to Member Institutions in 2016
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nstitutional members of the NAI encompass U.S. and international universities & non-profit and governmental research institutes of all sizes, both public and private. These members align with the mission of the NAI to increase the visibility of their individual innovative initiatives. The NAI Institutional Membership structure is divided into three categories, as illustrated below. For more information, visit www.AcademyofInventors. org/benefits.asp
A L N O M I T E U M T I B T E S R NI
International Affiliate: International membership level which promotes institutional research and innovation on a global scale and allows for worldwide recognition of campus inventors.
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P SHI
NAI
Member Institution:
Membership level which increases the visibility of institutional research and innovation and offers opportunities to recognize and honor inventors on campus. (Includes university members, international affiliates, governmental agencies, and research institutes)
Sustaining Member Institution: The highest level of membership available to a limited number of institutions to receive exclusive benefits with the Activities Report, Conference, Technology & Innovation, special committees and more.
Over 4,000 individual inventor members
Fellows and Members from
over 250
universities and research institutes
NAI Fellows have generated
NAI Fellows hold
over
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over 137 Billion
$
in revenue
26,500 issued U.S. patents
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he NAI is launching a new level of membership to further recognize academic innovation: NAI Senior Membership. Senior members are successful researchers who have made a significant contribution to the culture of innovation in their academic communities. This membership level best suits inventors towards the beginning of their career who aspire to become NAI Fellows.
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Inventor Member:
An inductee of a local NAI Chapter; typically, a community member with at least one issued U.S. patent. (See pages 16-17 for more information on local chapters)
COMING SOON Senior Member: An active researcher with success in patents, licensing and commercialization who has produced technologies that have brought, or aspire to bring, real impact on the welfare of society.
NAI Fellow: A committeeelected inventor who has demonstrated a prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions for the betterment of society. (See pages 8-9 for more information on the Fellows Program)
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Spotlight on Innovation
New York University:
Microplasmas: A Platform Technology for a Plethora of Plasma Applications Kurt H. Becker, Ph.D., FNAI, is vice dean for research, innovation, and entrepreneurship at the New York University (NYU) Tandon School of Engineering and a professor of applied physics and mechanical and aerospace engineering. Prior to joining NYU, he held faculty positions at Stevens Institute of Technology (1997 - 2007) and the City College of CUNY (1988 – 1997). He earned a M.S. and Ph.D. from the Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the National Academy of Inventors, a recipient of the Dr. Eduard-Martin Prize for Excellence in Research, the Thomas A. Edison Patent Award, and the SASP Erwin Schrödinger Medal. He also holds an honorary Professorship at the Leopold Franzens Universität Innsbruck, Austria. Becker’s research focuses on non-thermal (“cold”) atmospheric-pressure gas discharge plasmas. In contrast to thermal (“hot”) plasmas where the main plasma constituents of electron, ions, neutrals have approximately the same temperature. Ranging from a few thousand Kelvin for plasma arcs to millions of Kelvin in the interior of stars, cold plasmas are generated by channeling the energy mainly into the electrons, while ions and neutrals remain at or near room temperature. This allows for high-temperature chemistry at ambient temperatures. Non-thermal plasmas at atmospheric pressure tend to be unstable and quickly undergo an undesirable transition into a thermal arc.
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Becker was among the first to show that cold plasmas can be stabilized at atmospheric pressure by reducing at least one plasma dimension to the sub-millimeter range to create microplasmas. The non-thermal nature of microplasmas combined with the ability to operate them stably at atmospheric-pressure, without a vacuum enclosure, and the possibility to build large 2-D arrays without individual ballasting made microplasmas into a platform technology for a plethora of applications such as excimer lamps operating in the extreme UV, materials processing, surface modification, nanoparticle synthesis, ozone generation, environmental remediation, and biological decontamination. Plasma medicine is an emerging field, where major advances were made possible by the development of atmospheric pressure plasma sources that are biocompatible, thus satisfying strict conditions in terms of their electrical, chemical, and thermal properties, and can generate copious amounts of reactive radicals and deliver them to biological tissue via plasma jets.
Spotlight on Innovation
Texas Tech University:
Obesity: An Infectious Disease? Nikhil Dhurandhar, Ph.D., is professor and chair
treating diabetes. E4orf1 improves glycemic control and
of the department of nutritional sciences at Texas Tech University, and a past president of The Obesity Society, the premier organization of obesity clinicians and researchers representing USA, Canada and Mexico. Dhurandhar has received research funding from the National Institutes of Health, American Diabetes Association, Federal Emergency Management Agency, and other non-profit or commercial funding sources, has published over 130 scientific articles, and book chapters, and has served as a mentor or advisor for several students and postdoctoral fellows.
reduces liver fat accumulation in animals on high fat diets.
As a physician and nutritional biochemist, Dhurandhar has been involved with obesity treatment and research for about 35 years and has treated over 15,000 patients for obesity using lifestyle therapy as well as pharmacological approaches. His research focuses on molecular as well as clinical aspects of obesity and diabetes. His group was the first to identify adipogenic effects of an avian adenovirus and a human adenovirus (Ad36), and the first to report beneficial effects of Ad36, particularly on glucose metabolism. He believes that simple explanations for causes of obesity are inadequate and novel approaches are required for its effective management. This research is now being pursued globally and Dhurandhar originally coined the term “infectobesity” to describe obesity of infectious origin.
E4orf1 to improve glycemic control independent of insulin
Dhurandhar has received eight U.S. patents and six foreign patents related to the prevention of Ad36-induced obesity and the use of E4orf1, a protein derived from Ad36 for
Studies show that E4orf1 does not promote insulin production or secretion. In fact, E4orf1 promotes glucose disposal, which reduces the requirement for endogenous insulin, reducing its secretion. This “insulin sparing effect” is a significant advantage for treating diabetes, a condition that is already taxing the pancreas for insulin overproduction. Also, in diabetes, insulin signaling is often impaired. Hence, the ability of is particularly beneficial. Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) are highly prevalent chronic illnesses that take a huge toll on health and economy. An agent such as E4orf1, that would potentially treat all three conditions, would have a substantial beneficial impact on society. A long-term goal of this research and associated patents is to develop a vaccine to prevent Ad36-induced obesity. Dhurandhar and colleagues have also received a patent for developing small molecular analogs, which mimic the action of E4orf1 in vivo. Further testing of these analogs is currently underway that would lead to phase 1 clinical trials. Dhurandhar is also currently pursuing commercialization of a single agent that could be used to treat Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes as well as NAFLD.
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LOCAL NAI CHAPTERS The launch of a local NAI chapter is a useful vehicle
to recognize and honor investigators who translate their research findings into inventions that may benefit society. It also serves as a tool to celebrate leaders who foster and nurture innovation. All chapters are unique to their home institutions and members are encouraged to build chapters that best support their innovative initiatives.
Stevens Institute of Technology recently inducted their inaugural group of student members, all of whom are in the process of patenting their innovations.
This is a timeline of all NAI Chapter launches and events between October 2016 and June 2017 Marquette University LAUNCH
Benson Idahosa University LAUNCH
University of South Florida EVENT
University of Central Florida LAUNCH
Georgetown University EVENT
JANUARY
OCTOBER
DECEMBER
2017
California State University, Long Beach LAUNCH
Medical University of South Carolina EVENT
NOVEMBER
2016
Johns Hopkins University EVENT
Auburn University EVENT
SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific LAUNCH
“The launch of an NAI Chapter allows ASU to recognize our inventor community. Through our chapter, we look forward to strengthening our innovative collaborations across disciplines, while further showcasing our network of inventors and their outstanding contributions to society.” — Sethuraman Panchanathan, Executive Vice President and Chief Research and Innovation Officer of Knowledge Enterprise Development, Arizona State University
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Thomas Jefferson University gifts their
The University of Akron’s “Inventor Wall of Fame”
inductees emu eggs to encourage them to
recognizes all patents awarded to UA researchers.
“hatch new ideas.” Worcester Polytechnic Institute presents their faculty who have licensed a technology over the past year with a custom license plate in recognition of their tremendous translational efforts.
University of Missouri-Columbia EVENT
Arizona State University LAUNCH
University of Southern California LAUNCH
Texas Tech University System LAUNCH
Stevens Institute of Technology EVENT
JUNE
FEBRUARY
APRIL
MAY
Kansas State University EVENT
Stony Brook University EVENT
2017
MARCH East Carolina University EVENT
Worcester Polytechnic Institute EVENT
Institut Pasteur LAUNCH
“K-State has a long history of invention that we are pleased to honor through our Chapter of the NAI. The chapter highlights the contributions our inventive faculty, students, and staff have made to both basic and applied research, from fighting disease and improving electronics to perfecting crop varieties to help agricultural producers succeed. I look forward to our chapter event each year to celebrate K-State’s dynamic innovation ecosystem.” —Peter Dorhout, Vice President for Research, Kansas State University
members who collectively hold nearly 14,000 patents. NAI Activities Report 2017 | 17
Spotlight on Innovation
University of California, Irvine:
Shrinky-Dinks All Grown Up ®
Sun-Jun Park and Michelle Khine
Michelle Khine, Ph.D., FNAI, is professor of biomedical and chemical engineering and materials science at the University of California, Irvine. Khine is director of faculty innovation for the Henry Samueli School of Engineering. She is also director of bioengineering innovation & entrepreneurship at UCI Applied Innovation. As a researcher in the area of microfluidics, Khine has long been aware that the challenge of traditional ‘top-down’ micro- and nano-fabrication of microfluidic chips lies in the difficulties and costs associated with patterning at such high resolution. Indeed, the specialized equipment to make these chips can cost upwards of $100,000. As a new professor starting her first lab, this expensive equipment was not readily obtainable, so she decided to flip the problem upside down to see if she could obtain a more cost-effective solution by patterning at the large scale and subsequently shrinking down to achieve the desired final structures. Incredibly, the inspiration for this innovation was a toy—that perennial childhood favorite: Shrinky Dinks®. Essentially, just as Shrinky Dinks® start with a large plastic sheet that is shrunk in a hot oven, she has used thermoplastic sheets heated in an oven to create molds for making polymer chips and has even used the etched sheets themselves to create chips directly from the plastic sheets. This method enables her to beat the limit of resolution inherent to traditional ‘top-down’ manufacturing approaches. Her seminal paper in Lab on a Chip introduced ‘Shrinky-Dink® Microfluidics’ in 2008, and the paper quickly went viral, leading researchers around the world to adopt this approach for a vast range of applications. Importantly, this approach enables researchers to rapidly prototype complete devices within minutes.
to plasmonic ‘hot spots’, she also developed a concentrating plus optical strategy to achieve >100x increase in the fluorescence signal and significant signal to noise gains. Of particular interest: when the polymer retracts in each dimension by a factor x, it grows in the z direction by a factor x2, allowing the creation of high aspect ratio structures with simple processing approaches. Khine’s ultra-rapid fabrication approach therefore results in field-compatible plastic-based microfluidic systems with integrated nanostructures for robust signal amplification. This design-on-demand approach to create a suite of custom biomedical tools for low cost diagnostics includes sample prep with magnetic nanotraps, embedded on-chip electrodes, microlens arrays, surface enhanced sensing substrates and substrates for stem cell culture and differentiation. She has also developed a manufacturable approach to transfer our extremely rough multiscale patterns into any commodity plastic. Using this, she has demonstrated that she can create low cost, scalable superhydrophobic, antibacterial surfaces that resist not just wetting of water, but also resist bodily fluids including urine, saliva, and blood. Most recently, she has developed a process to lift off the unique nanostructured patterns from the shrink plastic to transfer them into other materials. This allows her to create truly conformal, high-resolution epidermal electronics that move with the skin. She uses these sensors for various types of physiological monitoring, including fetal movement, respiration, and blood pressure.
Specifically, Khine, using thermoplastic sheets that have been pre-heated and pre-stretched, draws a pattern onto the sheets with ink or etches a pattern on them with a tool and then heats the sheets in an oven. As the inked sheets shrink, the patterns drawn on them shrink and create ridges that can then be used as a mold to create chips with channels for fluid flow. With these tunable shape memory polymers, compatible with roll-to-roll as well as with standard lithographic processing, she can robustly integrate extremely high-resolution, high surface area, and high aspect ratio nanostructures directly into microsystems. When the underlying polymer substrate relaxes and ‘shrinks,’ a stiffer deposited thin film cannot and therefore buckles. She can control the buckling and therefore create nanostructures of deterministic sizes and patterns. Metallic nanostructures formed due to the stiffness mismatch between the thin metal film deposited on the retracting plastic sheet have demonstrated unprecedented electromagnetic field enhancements. In fact, she has demonstrated single-molecule detection resolution with this approach. To create far-field robust fluorescence enhancements that are not confined
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Figure 1. Overview schematic of our simple shrink platform technology and the various applications we have pursued with it.
Spotlight on Innovation
University of Central Florida:
Making Displays Crystal Clear Shin-Tson Wu, Ph.D., FNAI, is a Pegasus Professor in the College of Optics and Photonics at the University of Central Florida (UCF). Prior to joining UCF in 2001, he worked at Hughes Research Laboratories for 18 years. He received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Southern California and his B.S. in physics from National Taiwan University. Wu is among the first six inductees of the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame (2014) and a Charter Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (2012). Wu has co-authored eight books, more than 500 journal publications and holds 86 issued U.S. patents. Presently, he is serving as SID Honors and Awards Committee chairman. One of UCF’s most prolific inventors, Wu is an optics researcher and professor whose groundbreaking work in liquid crystals has had far-reaching impact on technology worldwide. Over the past three decades, Wu’s work has been instrumental in developing displays that are brighter, more energy efficient and both bigger and smaller than ever before. His most significant development so far is the mixed-mode twisted nematic LC cell, which is an integral part of high-resolution, high-contrast reflective and transflective LCDs. This technology has been applied to everything from projection and wearable displays used by gamers to smart phones, computer screens and televisions. His contributions allow users to see displays in almost any lighting conditions because of Wu’s innovation in transflective and sunlight-readable displays. Wu holds 86 U.S. patents for his work and most recently developed an antireflective film, inspired by the nanostructures found on moth eyes. The film, which was recently published in Optica, The Optical Society’s journal for high-impact research, exhibits a surface reflection of just .23 percent, much lower than the smart phone surface reflections of about 4 percent. Among Wu’s other innovations is making sure LCDs don’t malfunction at very hot or very cold temperatures because of new liquid crystal mixtures that don’t have the temperature limitations of those currently used – with applications that span the automotive industry and other LCD screen manufacturers.
“Dr. Wu is an extraordinary example of the influence one exceptional faculty member can have on an industry,” said Bahaa Saleh, dean of UCF’s College of Optics and Photonics. Michael Bass (FNAI), a professor emeritus at UCF’s College of Optics & Photonics, remembers when he first met Wu at the University of Southern California where Bass was a professor and Wu was pursuing his Ph.D. “He appeared in my office one day and announced that he was going to be my student and that he would finish in just four years,” Bass said. “It was very clear to me he was very unusual very early on.” Renowned Swiss physicist and LCD inventor Martin Schadt said Wu’s work will go on for generations thanks to his amazing ability to teach and inspire. “The best measure of the success of an educator is the success of his students,” Schadt said when he nominated Wu for the Slottow-Owaki Prize, which he won in 2011. “Shin-Tson’s outstanding students’ work is convincing proof for his amazing capabilities as an outstanding educator.”
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The 2017 Conference also launched the NAI’s inaugural Student Innovation Showcase, a unique platform for students to demonstrate their inventions before an esteemed panel of judges. Six student teams from NAI Member Institutions were invited to present their technologies for the opportunity to be mentored by an NAI Fellow.
Judges, from left to right: Ellen Ochoa (FNAI), NASA Johnson Space Center; Martin Matzuk (FNAI), Baylor College of Medicine; Lisa Seacat DeLuca, IBM Commerce; Michael Cima (FNAI), Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Vinit Nijhawan, Boston University. Not pictured: Andy Rathmann-Noonan, National Science and Technology Medals Foundation.
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Spotlight on Innovation
University of Florida:
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For much of American history, voting has revolved around who has the right to vote. After the 2000 presidential election and all its problems, the focus shifted to how America votes. Gilbert, a freshly minted Ph.D. and young professor, noticed. Figuring someone must be working to fix voting technology, he did a quick scan of computer science research literature. To his surprise, he found a huge gap.
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Juan E. Gilbert, Ph.D., FNAI, is the Andrew Banks Family Preeminence Endowed Professor and chair of the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering at the University of Florida (UF). He is the recipient of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring from President Barack Obama. Gilbert was named an AAASLemelson Invention Ambassador and a Speech Technology Luminary by Speech Technology. He has published more than 140 articles, given more than 200 talks and obtained more than $24 million dollars in research funding. A week before the 2012 presidential election, Gilbert walked into a South Carolina elementary school looking for the ideal test subjects for a technology he had been developing for almost a decade. He wanted to see if the voting technology he had created, called Prime III, would work on the ultimate disenfranchised voting population: those who cannot read. He placed his research in the hands of prekindergarten through second grade students and watched as they used pictures and touchscreens to cast ballots. At the end of the mock election he realized Prime III was, well, ready for prime time. “We wanted these children to be able to vote without any training,” Gilbert says. “And Prime III worked. The kids could all vote.”
So, Gilbert assembled a team of students and quickly discovered the challenges of creating a new system. “The people who could design it, couldn’t build it, the people who could build it didn’t understand how to design it, and the people who could secure it didn’t understand how to design it or build it,” Gilbert says. Ultimately, they created Prime III, which runs on a touchscreen tablet that is a fraction of the cost of a traditional mechanical voting machine. The voter chooses a mode of communication — speaking or touching, or both. For visual voting, the fonts are large, and districts can choose to provide photos of candidates. If a voter is blind or cannot read, a simple headset with a microphone is provided, and only the voter can hear the prompts. The voter can also use textured buttons to navigate the ballot in response to the prompts or respond by speaking. The machine confirms votes verbally or visually. When the voter is finished, a paper ballot is printed and turned in. The research behind Prime III has been funded by grants from the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Election Assistance Commission. Gilbert, who released the Prime III code as open source in 2015 to keep it free of politics, says his dream is for all 50 states to use Prime III and pay a fee to a research consortium that will keep it up to date.
Photos: LYON DUONG, UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
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Spotlight on Innovation
University of Nebraska-Lincoln:
Pioneering Virus Research Led to Biotechnology Tools The virus is also a good source of promoter elements, short sections of DNA that signal a cell to transcribe a gene and make a specific protein. Van Etten and his collaborators isolated several promoter elements that biotechnologists can use to introduce beneficial genes into crop plants.
James Van Etten, Ph.D., FNAI,
is the William Allington Distinguished Professor in plant pathology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). Van Etten holds four U.S. patents. He joined UNL in 1966 and has co-directed the Nebraska Center for Virology since 2000. He has served on many national committees and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2003. In 2016, he received the Award of Distinction from the American Phytopathological Society. Van Etten discovered a new family of viruses that infect algae in 1980. Phycodnaviridae are so prevalent worldwide that they constitute a previously unknown ecosystem. Van
In addition, Van Etten’s team found a viral gene that encodes for the smallest functional potassium ion channel protein. This characteristic makes the gene a useful model for studying more complex potassium ion channels, an essential component of all living organisms. Prior to discovering the viruses, Van Etten and a colleague discovered a unique bacterial-infecting virus. They found the first bacterial virus with a double-stranded RNA genome, which induces interferon, a component with antiviral properties. At the time, the virus provided a fast and inexpensive method for producing double-stranded RNA for medical applications.
“When you discover something that nobody else in the world has observed, that’s an ultimate high.” Etten and a colleague discovered the first Phycodnaviridae, a Chlorella virus, when they were unable to culture a symbiotic Chlorella-like green alga independent of its aquatic host, Hydra viridis. The team speculated that a virus might be involved. After isolating algae from hydras, the researchers examined them over time by electron microscopy. The algae filled with virus particles and lysed.
Van Etten has since led pioneering research into the viruses’ many unique characteristics. More recently, Van Etten and his collaborators are investigating the viruses’ ecology and evolutionary history. They have made important discoveries about how the virus—and potentially others—replicate in nature. Their research also explains why high increases in viral populations sometimes occur in natural waters.
To study individual particles of the newfound virus, Van Etten developed the first plaque assay for algal viruses. Focusing on viruses that infect Chlorella, Van Etten and his collaborators sequenced its genome and discovered its exceptionally large size. It was the first representative of what are often referred to as “giant viruses.”
His ongoing work also has implications for the energy sector’s growing interest in using algae as a biofuel. Protecting algae from pathogens, such as viruses, will be essential. “When you discover something that nobody else in the world has observed, that’s an ultimate high,” said Van Etten.
Van Etten’s team also learned that the virus encodes DNA restriction endonucleases, enzymes that cleave DNA at specific sites, the first found in a virus. Some of these enzymes are sold commercially to support biotechnology research. NAI Activities Report 2017 | 23
Spotlight on Innovation
University of South Florida:
Harnessing the Power of Nanotechnology to Improve Health Care
Shyam S. Mohapatra, Ph.D., MBA, FNAI, is a Distinguished USF Health Professor, director of the division of translational medicine, associate dean of graduate programs in the USF College of Pharmacy and a Research Career Scientist at the James A. Haley Veterans’ Hospital in Tampa. He has more than 30 years of experience in teaching, research and entrepreneurship in immunology and biotechnology and was one of the early pioneers in biomedical nanotechnology. Early in his career, he received two international awards for his scientific contributions in biotechnology and immunology: The Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship, Germany and the Pharmacia Allergy Research Foundation Award, Sweden. He has published over 200 papers involving research on regulation of inflammation and immunity, relating to allergy and asthma, traumatic brain injury and cancers. Mohapatra’s lab discovered the role of atrial natriuretic peptide signaling in controlling inflammation and immunity in asthma and in cancers. He is a prolific inventor and holds over 35 U.S. and foreign patents. He is recognized for his many inventions in the field of nanoscale biomedical diagnostics and therapeutics, for which he was awarded the Global Corporate Award in Nanotechnology in 2014 and was inducted to the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame. Since induction, Mohapatra has championed the cause of pharmaceutical nanotechnology education in the state of Florida and to this end he has established a highly innovative, cutting-edge Master of Science program in pharmaceutical nanotechnology offered by the College of Pharmacy and the USF Center for Research and Education in Nanobioengineering, both of which he directs.
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Mohapatra’s invention of antiviral technology relating to 2-5 oligo-adenylate synthatase, now dubbed as the “wellness gene,” has been licensed by USF and is being developed as a treatment against a number of RNA viral diseases including Hepatitis C, influenza, RSV, dengue and others, with billions of patients affected world-wide. Another of Mohapatra’s recent inventions involved intranasal anti-fusion peptide nanoparticle technology has the potential to revolutionize prophylaxis of RSV, which infects approximately 65 million people globally and is responsible for more than 200,000 deaths each year. This technology can also be applied to other viruses such as HIV, SARS, Ebola, and influenza which afflict billions of people worldwide. His other inventions in the field of therapeutics for allergy and asthma, traumatic brain injury and cancers have completed pre-clinical studies including a large-scale animal study in asthmatic dogs and non-human primate studies on ovarian cancer. Mohapatra, in collaboration with Dr. Subhra Mohapatra, recently developed a fiber-inspired smart scaffold technology (FiSS) that reproduces patients’ tumors on the scaffold. USF spin-out Transgenex Nanobiotech Inc. (TGN) is commercializing a line of cancer-related products that includes FiSS-Discs, microplates, growth media, tumoroids and cancer stem cells for drug discovery and drug development. TGN is also developing novel drug candidates against cancer stem cells that are considered ‘‘seeds” of tumors and responsible for tumor initiation, growth, metastasis and drug resistance.
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Building a Network
CURRENT NAI FELLOWS Patrick Aebischer, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Kurt H. Becker, New York University
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Building a Network A. Robert Calderbank, Duke University
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Building a Network Duane B. Dimos, The University of Texas at Arlington
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Building a Network Robert H. Grubbs, California Institute of Technology
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Bruce D. Hammock, University of California, Davis
S. Sitharama Iyengar, Florida International University
Greg Hampikian, Boise State University
Ernest B. Izevbigie, Benson Idahosa University
Justin Hanes, Johns Hopkins University
Stephen C. Jacobsen, The University of Utah*
Wayne W. Hanna, University of Georgia
Allan J. Jacobson, University of Houston
Theodor W. Hänsch, Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik
Chennupati Jagadish, The Australian National University
Barbara C. Hansen, University of South Florida
Anil K. Jain, Michigan State University
Sherry L. Harbin, Purdue University
Sungho Jin, University of California, San Diego
Patrick T. Harker, University of Delaware
Barry W. Johnson, University of Virginia
Frank N. Harris, The University of Akron
Kristina M. Johnson, State University of New York
Jeffrey H. Harwell, The University of Oklahoma
William L. Johnson, California Institute of Technology
Florence P. Haseltine, National Institutes of Health
Trevor O. Jones, Case Western Reserve University
Charlotte A.E. Hauser, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Richard Jove, Nova Southeastern University
Craig J. Hawker, University of California, Santa Barbara
Biing-Hwang Juang, Georgia Institute of Technology
M. Frederick Hawthorne, University of Missouri-Columbia
Michael E. Jung, University of California, Los Angeles
Barton F. Haynes, Duke University
John L. Junkins, Texas A&M University
Vikki Hazelwood, Stevens Institute of Technology
Eric W. Kaler, University of Minnesota
Richard F. Heck, University of Delaware*
Joseph S. Kalinowski, East Carolina University
Jason C. Heikenfeld, University of Cincinnati
Aaron V. Kaplan, Dartmouth College
Martin E. Hellman, Stanford University
Vistasp M. Karbhari, The University of Texas at Arlington
Maurice P. Herlihy, Brown University
Usha N. Kasid, Georgetown University
Amy E. Herr, University of California, Berkeley
Linda P. B. Katehi, University of California, Davis
John C. Herr, University of Virginia*
Kattesh V. Katti, University of Missouri-Columbia
David R. Hillyard, The University of Utah
Jay D. Keasling, University of California, Berkeley
Andrew B. Holmes, The University of Melbourne
Joseph P. Kennedy, The University of Akron
Nick Holonyak, Jr., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Michelle Khine, University of California, Irvine
Rush D. Holt, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Sakhrat Khizroev, Florida International University
Leroy E. Hood, Institute for Systems Biology
Behrokh Khoshnevis, University of Southern California
D. Craig Hooper, Thomas Jefferson University
Marcia J. Kieliszewski, Ohio University
Edward A. Hoover, Colorado State University
Sung Wan Kim, The University of Utah
H. Robert Horvitz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kenneth W. Kinzler, Johns Hopkins University
Richard A. Houghten, Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies
John Klier, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Benjamin S. Hsiao, Stony Brook University
Brian K. Kobilka, Stanford University
Stephen D. H. Hsu, Michigan State University
Thomas J. Kodadek, The Scripps Research Institute
Chenming C. Hu, University of California, Berkeley
Harold L. Kohn, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Oliver Yoa-Pu Hu, National Defense Medical Center
Joachim B. Kohn, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
David Huang, Oregon Health & Science University
George V. Kondraske, The University of Texas at Arlington
Jeffrey A. Hubbell, The University of Chicago
John J. Kopchick, Ohio University
Mark S. Humayun, University of Southern California
George P. Korfiatis, Stevens Institute of Technology
Joseph P. Iannotti, Cleveland Clinic
Roger D. Kornberg, Stanford University
Leon D. Iasemidis, Louisiana Tech University
Michael N. Kozicki, Arizona State University
Enrique Iglesia, University of California, Berkeley
Steven J. Kubisen, The George Washington University
Suzanne T. Ildstad, University of Louisville
Steven M. Kuznicki, University of Alberta *Indicates Deceased
NAI Activities Report 2017 | 29
Building a Network Michael R. Ladisch, Purdue University
Yuri M. Lvov, Louisiana Tech University
Max G. Lagally, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Asad M. Madni, University of California, Los Angeles
Donald W. Landry, Columbia University
Marc J. Madou, University of California, Irvine
Robert S. Langer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Robert Magnusson, The University of Texas at Arlington
David C. Larbalestier, Florida State University
Surya K. Mallapragada, Iowa State University
Brian A Larkins, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Richard J. Mammone, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Juan C. Lasheras, University of California, San Diego
Richard B. Marchase, The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Cato T. Laurencin, University of Connecticut
Seth R. Marder, Georgia Institute of Technology
Enrique J. Lavernia, University of California, Irvine
Rodney S. Markin, University of Nebraska Medical Center
Nicholas J. Lawrence, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute
Tobin J. Marks, Northwestern University
Victor B. Lawrence, Stevens Institute of Technology
Michael A. Marletta, University of California, Berkeley
Se-Jin Lee, Johns Hopkins University
Alan G. Marshall, Florida State University
Sunggyu Lee, Ohio University
Dean F. Martin, University of South Florida
Virginia M.-Y. Lee, University of Pennsylvania
Raghunath A. Mashelkar, National Innovation Foundation-India
Wen-Hwa Lee, China Medical University
Richard A. Mathies, University of California, Berkeley
Robert J. Lefkowitz, Duke University
Edith Mathiowitz, Brown University
Jean-Marie P. Lehn, University of Strasbourg
Kouki Matsuse, Meiji University
Leslie A. Leinwand, University of Colorado, Boulder
Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, Carnegie Mellon University
Kam W. Leong, Columbia University
Martin M. Matzuk, Baylor College of Medicine
G. Douglas Letson, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute
Constantinos Mavroidis, Northeastern University*
Frank L. Lewis, The University of Texas at Arlington
Helen S. Mayberg, Emory University
Jennifer A. Lewis, Harvard University
T. Dwayne McCay, Florida Institute of Technology
Chiang J. Li, Harvard University
Richard D. McCullough, Harvard University
Guifang Li, University of Central Florida
Edith G. McGeer, The University of British Columbia
Ping Liang, University of California, Riverside
Patrick L. McGeer, The University of British Columbia
James C. Liao, Academia Sinica
James W. McGinity, The University of Texas at Austin
Charles M. Lieber, Harvard University
Stephen W.S. McKeever, Oklahoma State University
Stephen B. Liggett, University of South Florida
Carver A. Mead, California Institute of Technology
Frances S. Ligler, North Carolina State University
Thomas J. Meade, Northwestern University
Shinn-Zong (John) Lin, Hualien Tzu Chi Hospital
Katrina L. Mealey, Washington State University
James Linder, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Craig C. Mello, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Stuart M. Lindsay, Arizona State University
Wen Jin Meng, Louisiana State University
Robert J. Linhardt, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Xiang-Jin Meng, Virginia Tech
Dennis C. Liotta, Emory University
Thomas O. Mensah, Florida State University
Thomas A. Lipo, Florida State University
Edward W. Merrill, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Barbara H. Liskov, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Robert M. Metcalfe, The University of Texas at Austin
Alan F. List, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute
Meyya Meyyappan, NASA Ames Research Center
Dmitri Litvinov, University of Houston
Gary K. Michelson, Michelson Medical Research Foundation
Yilu Liu, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Antonios G. Mikos, Rice University
Jennifer K. Lodge, Washington University in St. Louis
Duane D. Miller, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center
R. Bowen Loftin, University of Missouri-Columbia
Jan D. Miller, The University of Utah
John S. (Pete) Lollar III, Emory University
Richard K. Miller, Olin College of Engineering
Mandi J. Lopez, Louisiana State University
Robert H. Miller, The George Washington University
Gabriel P. Lรณpez, The University of New Mexico
Thomas E. Milner, The University of Texas at Austin
Michael R. Lovell, Marquette University
Chad A. Mirkin, Northwestern University
Philip S. Low, Purdue University
Sergey B. Mirov, The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Anthony M. Lowman, Rowan University
Umesh K. Mishra, University of California, Santa Barbara
Dan Luss, University of Houston
Somenath Mitra, New Jersey Institute of Technology *Indicates Deceased
30 | 2017 NAI Activities Report
Building a Network Samir Mitragotri, Harvard University
Prem S. Paul, University of Nebraska-Lincoln*
Shanta M. Modak, Columbia University
George N. Pavlakis, National Institutes of Health
Paul L. Modrich, Duke University
P. Hunter Peckham, Case Western Reserve University
Shyam S. Mohapatra, University of South Florida
Nicholas A. Peppas, The University of Texas at Austin
Andreas F. Molisch, University of Southern California
Heloise A. Pereira, The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
David J. Mooney, Harvard University
Kenneth H. Perlin, New York University
H. Keith Moo-Young, Washington State University Tri-Cities
David W. Pershing, The University of Utah
Israel J. Morejon, University of South Florida
Michael A. Peshkin, Northwestern University
Jeffrey R. Morgan, Brown University
G.P. (Bud) Peterson, Georgia Institute of Technology
Harold L. Moses, Vanderbilt University
Nasser Peyghambarian, The University of Arizona
Marsha A. Moses, Harvard University
Gholam A. Peyman, Tulane University
Joseph R. Moskal, Northwestern University
Gary A. Piazza, University of South Alabama
Brij M. Moudgil, University of Florida
William M. Pierce, Jr., University of Louisville
JosĂŠ M.F. Moura, Carnegie Mellon University
Christophe Pierre, Stevens Institute of Technology
Theodore D. Moustakas, Boston University
Michael C. Pirrung, University of California, Riverside
Ferid Murad, The George Washington University
Michael V. Pishko, University of Wyoming
Nazim Z. Muradov, University of Central Florida
John M. Poate, Colorado School of Mines
Nicholas Muzyczka, University of Florida
Victor L. Poirier, University of South Florida
Lakshmi S. Nair, University of Connecticut
Leonard Polizzotto, Draper Laboratory
Shuji Nakamura, University of California, Santa Barbara
H. Vincent Poor, Princeton University
Jagdish Narayan, North Carolina State University
Huntington Potter, University of Colorado Denver
Ramani Narayan, Michigan State University
Garth Powis, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
Shrikanth S. Narayanan, University of Southern California
Paras N. Prasad, University at Buffalo, SUNY
Hameed Naseem, University of Arkansas
Mark R. Prausnitz, Georgia Institute of Technology
Shree K. Nayar, Columbia University
Glenn D. Prestwich, The University of Utah
Alan C. Nelson, University of Washington
Darwin J. Prockop, Texas A&M University
George R. Newkome, The University of Akron
Ann Progulske-Fox, University of Florida
Kyriacos C. Nicolaou, Rice University
Suzie H. Pun, University of Washington
C. L. Max Nikias, University of Southern California
Stephen R. Quake, Stanford University
Laura E. Niklason, Yale University
Ronald T. Raines, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Douglas F. Nixon, The George Washington University
Kaushik Rajashekara, University of Houston
David P. Norton, University of Florida
Ragunathan (Raj) Rajkumar, Carnegie Mellon University
David R. Nygren, The University of Texas at Arlington
Alain T. Rappaport, Institute for Human and Machine Cognition
Ellen Ochoa, NASA Johnson Space Center
Michael P. Rastatter, East Carolina University
Babatunde A. Ogunnaike, University of Delaware
Jahangir S. Rastegar, Stony Brook University
Iwao Ojima, Stony Brook University
A. Hari Reddi, University of California, Davis
Santa J. Ono, The University of British Columbia
Dabbala R. Reddy, Carnegie Mellon University
Richard M. Osgood, Jr., Columbia University
E. Albert Reece, University of Maryland
Erin K. O’Shea, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Kenneth L. Reifsnider, The University of Texas at Arlington
Julio C. Palmaz, The University of Texas Health Science Center
Renee A. Reijo Pera, Montana State University
Zhifeng Ren, University of Houston
at San Antonio
Sethuraman Panchanathan, Arizona State University
Darrell H. Reneker, The University of Akron
Alyssa Panitch, University of California, Davis
Daniel E. Resasco, The University of Oklahoma
Francis A. Papay, Cleveland Clinic
Rebecca R. Richards-Kortum, Rice University
Kevin J. Parker, University of Rochester
Jacob (Kobi) Richter, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
Thomas N. Parks, The University of Utah
Yasuko Rikihisa, The Ohio State University
C. Kumar N. Patel, University of California, Los Angeles
Richard E. Riman, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Yvonne J. Paterson, University of Pennsylvania
Jasper D. Rine, University of California, Berkeley *Indicates Deceased
NAI Activities Report 2017 | 31
Building a Network Andrew G. Rinzler, University of Florida
Benjamin A. Shneiderman, University of Maryland
Bruce E. Rittmann, Arizona State University
Kevin M. Short, University of New Hampshire
Nabeel A. Riza, University College Cork
Michael S. Shur, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
John A. Rogers, Northwestern University
Dean L. Sicking, The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Ajeet Rohatgi, Georgia Institute of Technology
David Sidransky, Johns Hopkins University
Pradeep K. Rohatgi, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Richard B. Silverman, Northwestern University
Bärbel M. Rohrer, Medical University of South Carolina
Marwan A. Simaan, University of Central Florida
Bernard Roizman, The University of Chicago
Mrityunjay Singh, Ohio Aerospace Institute
Arye Rosen, Rowan University
Raj N. Singh, Oklahoma State University
Kenneth J. Rothschild, Boston University
Kamalesh K. Sirkar, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Stuart H. Rubin, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center
Thomas C. Skalak, The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation
Erkki Ruoslahti, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
Marvin J. Slepian, The University of Arizona
Stephen D. Russell, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command
David R. Smith, Duke University
B. Don Russell, Jr., Texas A&M University
Henry I. Smith, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Linda J. Saif, The Ohio State University
James E. Smith, West Virginia University
Michael J. Sailor, University of California, San Diego
Oliver Smithies, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill*
Joseph C. Salamone, University of Massachusetts Lowell
George F. Smoot III, University of California, Berkeley
W. Mark Saltzman, Yale University
Terrance P. Snutch, University of British Columbia
Bahgat G. Sammakia, Binghamton University
Solomon H. Snyder, Johns Hopkins University
Paul R. Sanberg, University of South Florida
Franky So, North Carolina State University
Timothy D. Sands, Virginia Tech
Kwok-Fai So, University of Hong Kong
Sudeep Sarkar, University of South Florida
M.J. Soileau, University of Central Florida
Ram Sasisekharan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mohamed Y. Soliman, University of Houston
Yoshiaki Sato, Kaatsu International University
Ponisseril Somasundaran, Columbia University
W. Gregory Sawyer, University of Florida
Gerald Sonnenfeld, University of Rhode Island
Martin Schadt, Nanjing University
Richard A. Soref, University of Massachusetts Boston
Andrew V. Schally, University of Miami
James S. Speck, University of California, Santa Barbara
Axel Scherer, California Institute of Technology
Sidlgata V. Sreenivasan, The University of Texas at Austin
John T. Schiller, National Institutes of Health
Pramod K. Srivastava, University of Connecticut
Paul R. Schimmel, The Scripps Research Institute
Andrew J. Steckl, University of Cincinnati
Joseph M. Schimmels, Marquette University
Valentino J. Stella, University of Kansas
Raymond F. Schinazi, Emory University
Bruce W. Stillman, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
C. Richard Schlegel, Georgetown University
Daniele C. Struppa, Chapman University
Diane G. Schmidt, University of Cincinnati
Galen D. Stucky, University of California, Santa Barbara
Vern L. Schramm, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Nan-Yao Su, University of Florida
Peter G. Schultz, The Scripps Research Institute
Bala Subramaniam, University of Kansas
Marlan O. Scully, Texas A&M University
Thomas C. Südhof, Stanford University
Sudipta Seal, University of Central Florida
Subra Suresh, Nanyang Technological University
Wayne S. Seames, The University of North Dakota
Kenneth S. Suslick, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Saïd M. Sebti, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute
Mark J. Suto, Southern Research
George E. Seidel, Jr., Colorado State University
Jack W. Szostak, Harvard University
Venkat Selvamanickam, University of Houston
Yu-Chong Tai, California Institute of Technology
Arup K. Sengupta, Lehigh University
Esther Sans Takeuchi, Stony Brook University
Jonathan L. Sessler, The University of Texas at Austin
R. Michael Tanner, Association of Public and Land-grant Universities
Mohsen Shahinpoor, The University of Maine
Nelson Tansu, Lehigh University
Wan Y. Shih, Drexel University
Theodore F. Taraschi, Thomas Jefferson University
Wei-Heng Shih, Drexel University
Bruce J. Tatarchuk, Auburn University
Mary Shire, University of Limerick, Ireland
Guillermo J. Tearney, Harvard University *Indicates Deceased
32 | 2017 NAI Activities Report
Building a Network Fleur T. Tehrani, California State University, Fullerton
Andrew M. Weiner, Purdue University
Marc T. Tessier-Lavigne, Stanford University
Herbert Weissbach, Florida Atlantic University
Madhukar (Mathew) L. Thakur, Thomas Jefferson University
Ralph Weissleder, Massachusetts General Hospital
Gordon A. Thomas, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Sherman M. Weissman, Yale University
Mark E. Thompson, University of Southern California
Thomas M. Weller, University of South Florida
H. Holden Thorp, Washington University in St. Louis
James A. Wells, University of California, San Francisco
Thomas G. Thundat, University of Alberta
James E. West, Johns Hopkins University
Richard B. Timmons, The University of Texas at Arlington
Jennifer L. West, Duke University
Arthur J. Tipton, Southern Research
Wayne C. Westerman, University of Delaware
Stephen Tomlinson, Medical University of South Carolina
Caroline C. Whitacre, The Ohio State University
Mehmet Toner, Massachusetts General Hospital
Jay F. Whitacre, Carnegie Mellon University
James M. Tour, Rice University
George M. Whitesides, Harvard University
Charles H. Townes, University of California, Berkeley*
Jonathan A. Wickert, Iowa State University
John Q. Trojanowski, University of Pennsylvania
H. Kumar Wickramasinghe, University of California, Irvine
Roger Y. Tsien, University of California, San Diego*
Alan E. Willner, University of Southern California
Mark L. Tykocinski, Thomas Jefferson University
Richard C. Willson III, University of Houston
Satish S. Udpa, Michigan State University
David J. Wineland, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Kamil Ugurbil, University of Minnesota
Helena S. Wisniewski, University of Alaska Anchorage
Kathryn E. Uhrich, University of California, Riverside
Carl T. Wittwer, The University of Utah
Kalliat T. Valsaraj, Louisiana State University
Edward D. Wolf, Cornell University
James L. Van Etten, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Chi-Huey Wong, Academia Sinica
Akos Vertes, The George Washington University
Jerry M. Woodall, University of California, Davis
Jan T. Vilcek, New York University
John A. Woollam, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Anil V. Virkar, The University of Utah
S. Davis Worley, Auburn University
Anthony J. Vizzini, Wichita State University
Paul K. Wright, University of California, Berkeley
Vitaly J. Vodyanoy, Auburn University
Mark S. Wrighton, Washington University in St. Louis
Horst Vogel, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Shin-Tson Wu, University of Central Florida
Bert Vogelstein, Johns Hopkins University
James C. Wyant, The University of Arizona
Nicholi Vorsa, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
James J. Wynne, University of South Florida
John N. Vournakis, Medical University of South Carolina
Chunhui (Chris) Xu, Cornell University
Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, Columbia University
Ping Xu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Kristiina Vuori, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
Zhi Xu, University of Missouri-St. Louis
John F. Wager, Oregon State University
Janet K. Yamamoto, University of Florida
James W. Wagner, Emory University
Pan-Chyr Yang, National Taiwan University
William R. Wagner, University of Pittsburgh
Ralph T. Yang, University of Michigan
Norman J. Wagner III, University of Delaware
Shu Yang, University of Pennsylvania
Jay S. Walker, Cornell University
Yu-Dong Yao, Stevens Institute of Technology
Kevin M. Walsh, University of Louisville
Amnon Yariv, California Institute of Technology
David R. Walt, Tufts University
Martin L. Yarmush, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Christine A. Wang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Michael J. Yaszemski, Mayo Clinic
Shaomeng Wang, University of Michigan
Yun Yen, Taipei Medical University
Yong Wang, Washington State University
Phillip D. Zamore, University of Massachusetts Medical School
John E. Ware, Jr., University of Massachusetts Medical School
Warren M. Zapol, Massachusetts General Hospital
Isiah M. Warner, Louisiana State University
Frederic Zenhausern, The University of Arizona
Donald P. Weeks, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Shuguang Zhang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
John D. Weete, Auburn University
Jianping (Jim) P. Zheng, Florida State University
Paul H. Weigel, The University of Oklahoma
Harald zur Hausen, German Cancer Research Center
*Indicates Deceased
NAI Activities Report 2017 | 33
Building a Network
NAI MEMBER INSTITUTIONS SUSTAINING MEMBER INSTITUTIONS
Florida Gulf Coast University
Arizona State University*
Florida Institute of Technology
Auburn University*
Florida International University*
New York University
Florida Polytechnic University*
Texas Tech University*
Florida State University
University of California, Irvine
The George Washington University
University of Central Florida*
Georgetown University*
University of Florida
Georgia Institute of Technology
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Georgia State University
University of South Florida*
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute Harvard University
MEMBER INSTITUTIONS
Idaho State University
Angelo State University*
Illinois Institute of Technology
Baylor College of Medicine
Indiana University
Binghamton University
Institute for Human & Machine Cognition
Boise State University
Iowa State University
Boston University*
Jackson State University*
Brandeis University
James Madison University
Brown University
Johns Hopkins University*
California Institute of Technology
Kansas State University*
California State University, Long Beach*
Lehigh University
Carnegie Mellon University
Louisiana State University
Case Western Reserve University
Louisiana Tech University
Chapman University
Marquette University*
Clemson University
Massachusetts General Hospital Research Institute
Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Mayo Clinic
Colorado State University
Medical University of South Carolina*
Columbia University
Michigan State University*
Cornell University
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Dartmouth College
Montana State University
Draper Laboratory
Morehouse School of Medicine
Drexel University
Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium
Duke University
New College of Florida
East Carolina University*
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University*
New Mexico State University*
Emory University
North Carolina State University
Florida A&M University
Northeastern University
Florida Advanced Manufacturing Research Center
Northern Arizona University
Florida Atlantic University
Northern Illinois University * Indicates Member Institution with a local NAI Chapter
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Building a Network Northwestern University
University of California, Davis
Nova Southeastern University
University of California, Los Angeles
Oak Ridge Associated Universities
University of California, Riverside
The Ohio State University
University of California, San Diego
Ohio University
University of California, Santa Barbara
Oklahoma State University*
University of California, Santa Cruz
Olin College of Engineering
University of Cincinnati*
Oregon Health and Science University
University of Colorado Boulder
Oregon State University
University of Colorado Denver
The Pennsylvania State University
University of Connecticut
Philadelphia University
University of Delaware
Princeton University
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Purdue University
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University of Hawai’i*
Rice University
University of Houston
Rochester Institute of Technology
University of Idaho
The Rockefeller University
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Rowan University
University of Iowa
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
University of Kansas
Saint Louis University Smithsonian Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation
University of Kentucky
Southern Illinois University*
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Southern Research Institute
University of Massachusetts Boston
SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific*
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
St. Thomas University
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Stevens Institute of Technology*
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Stony Brook University*
University of Miami
Temple University
University of Michigan
Texas A&M University
University of Minnesota
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center*
University of Missouri-Columbia*
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso*
University of Missouri-Kansas City*
Thomas Jefferson University*
University of Missouri-St. Louis*
Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Tufts University
University of Nevada, Reno
The University of Akron*
University of New Hampshire
The University of Alabama*
The University of New Mexico
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of Alaska Anchorage
The University of North Dakota
The University of Arizona
University of North Florida
University of Arkansas*
University of North Texas
University at Buffalo
The University of Oklahoma
University of California, Berkeley
University of Pennsylvania
University of Louisville University of Maryland
* Indicates Member Institution with a local NAI Chapter
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Building a Network University of Pittsburgh
Washington State University
University of Rhode Island
Washington State University Tri-Cities
University of Rochester
Washington University in St. Louis
University of South Alabama
Wayne State University
University of South Carolina
West Virginia University
University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee*
Wichita State University
University of South Florida St. Petersburg*
Worcester Polytechnic Institute*
University of Southern California*
Yale University
The University of Southern Mississippi The University of Tennessee, Chattanooga The University of Tennessee, Knoxville The University of Tennessee, Health Science Center The University of Tennessee, Martin The University of Texas at Arlington*
INTERNATIONAL AFFILIATE MEMBER INSTITUTIONS Academia Sinica, Taiwan Australian National University, Australia
The University of Texas at Austin
China Medical University, Taiwan*
The University of Texas at Dallas
City University of Hong Kong, China
The University of Texas at San Antonio
Hualien Tzu Chi Hospital, Taiwan
The University of Toledo
Institut Pasteur, France*
The University of Utah University of Virginia
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
University of Washington
National Taiwan University, Taiwan*
University of West Florida University of Wisconsin-Madison
PontifĂcia Universidade CatĂłlca do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Utah State University
Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea
Vanderbilt University
Taipei Medical University, Taiwan
Virginia Commonwealth University
University College Cork, Ireland
Virginia Tech
University of Alberta, Canada
Wake Forest University
University of Limerick, Ireland
* Indicates Member Institution with a local NAI Chapter
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Revolutionizing the National Dialogue
NAI GROWTH SINCE INCEPTION 4,000 MEMBERS
NAI Fellows Program Member Institutions NAI Chapters
757
International Affiliates
582
Sustaining Members
414
244
101
212
215
175 144 93
36
40
43 27 9 10
16
17
24
13
15
2
5
1
1
1
2
2
4
7
9
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
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never perfected an invention
that I did not think about
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