CTRI Awardees

CTRI has funded a wide range of projects to help advance UIC innovations towards commercialization.

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Didem Ozevin
Department of Civil, Materials, and Environment
College of Engineering

Paul Carlier
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
College of Pharmacy

Alexandra Naba
Department of Physiology and Biophysics
College of Medicine

Pavel Petukhov
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
College of Pharmacy

Ian Papautsky
Department of Biomedical Engineering
College of Engineering

Pete Setabutr
Department of Ophthalmology
College of Medicine

Zongmin Zhao
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
College of Pharmacy

Viktoriya Zvoda
Department of Physics
College of Liberal Arts and Science

Russell Pesavento
Oral Biology
College of Dentistry

Xue-Jun Li
Department of Biomedical Sciences
College of Medicine Rockford

Meenesh R. Singh
Department of Chemical Engineering
College of Engineering

Inigo Sanz-Pena
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
College of Engineering

Yu Gao
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
College of Pharmacy

Azadeh Haghighi
Department Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
College of Engineering

Subramanian Sankaranaranyan
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
College of Engineering

Mathew Mathew Thoppil
Colleges of Engineering and Medicine

Richard Novak
College of Medicine, Infectious Diseases

Alexander Adibekian
Department of Chemistry
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Thomas Park
Department of Biological Sciences
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Snehal Sonawane
College of Medicine, Pathology

Steven Ackerman
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
College of Medicine

Leslie Aldrich
Department of Chemistry
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Michael Caffrey
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
College of Medicine

Ali Djalilian
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science
College of Medicine

Michael Johnson
Center for Biomolecular Sciences
College of Pharmacy

Andre Kajdacsy-Balla
Department of Pathology
College of Medicine

Jan Kitajewski
Department of Physiology and Biophysics
College of Medicine

Mathew Mathew
Department of Biomedical Science
College of Medicine – Rockford

John Monaghan
Department of Anthropology
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Sojin Shikano
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
College of Medicine

Mladen Vidovich
Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine
College of Medicine

2021

Kamran Avanaki
Department of Bioengineering; Department of Dermatology
Colleges of Engineering and Medicine

Deepak Shukla
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science
College of Medicine

Vinay Aakalu
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science
College of Medicine

Peter Gyarmati
Department of Cancer Biology and Pharmacology
College of Medicine

Luisa DiPietro
Department of Periodontics
College of Dentistry

Meenesh Singh
Department of Chemical Engineering
College of Engineering

X. Joe Zhou
Center for Magnetic Resonance Research; Department of Neurological Surgery
College of Medicine

Sangil Kim
Department of Chemical Engineering
College of Engineering

Peggi White
Regional Nursing Program – Urbana
College of Nursing

Xin Huang
Department of Pharmacology
College of Medicine

Yannek Leiderman
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences; Department of Bioengineering
Colleges of Engineering and Medicine

Ying Liu
Department of Chemical Engineering
College of Engineering

Ankit Mehta
Department of Neurosurgery
College of Medicine

Jenny Parvani
Department of Physiology and Biophysics
College of Medicine

Shiva Shahrara
Department of Medicine, Rheumatology Division
College of Medicine

Deepak Shukla
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
College of Medicine

Susan Talamini
Department of Urology
College of Medicine

Amit Trivedi
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
College of Engineering

Alexander Yarin and Youngkwan Song
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering; Department of Biobehavioral Nursing Science
Colleges of Engineering and Nursing

Amelia Bartholomew
Department of Surgery
College of Medicine

Liaohai Chen
Department of Surgery
College of Medicine

Jayhyung Cho
Department of Pharmacology
College of Medicine

Xiaping Du
Department of Pharmacology
College of Medicine

Ramaswamy Kalyanasundaram
Department of Biomedical Sciences
College of Medicine

Xue-Jun Li
Department of Biomedical Sciences
College of Medicine

Richard Minshall
Department of Anesthesiology and Pharmacology
College of Medicine

Hyung-Geun Moon
Department of Medicine, Pulmanory Division
College of Medicine

Reza Shahbazian-Yassar
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
College of Engineering

Tolou Shokuhfar
Department of Bioengineering
Colleges of Engineering and Medicine

Vinay Aakaly
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
College of Medicine

Farhad Ansari
Department of Civil Engineering
College of Engineering

Leslie Fung
Department of Chemistry
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Bin He
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
College of Medicine

Hyung-Geun Moon
Department of Medicine, Pulmanory Division
College of Medicine

Russell Pesavento
Center for Biomolecular Science
College of Pharmacy

Mark Rosenblatt and Charles Yu
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
College of Medicine