CTRI Awardees
CTRI has funded a wide range of projects to help advance UIC innovations towards commercialization.
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2024
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
2023
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
2022
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
2020
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
2019
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
2018
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