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Technology & Business Developmentat UNLV

Administrative Development Seminar (ADS)

September 12, 2012

Technology & Business Developmentat UNLV

Administrative Development Seminar (ADS)

September 12, 2012

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UNLV Office of Economic Development

Established May 2012

Mission: To promote private- and public-sector partnerships to support economic and workforce development, to attract industry-sponsored research, and to protect and develop intellectual property. The staff offers guidance on partnership opportunities, commercialization, and other services for both faculty and prospective external partners.

•Dr. Jim Thomson, Special Advisor to the President for Regional Development

•Rob Nielsen, Business Development Officer

•Mark Litman JD, Intellectual Property Officer

•Jill Zimbelman, Program Coordinator

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Activities and Objectives

• Strong connection to statewide economic development (e.g., GOED, RDA) and collaboration with NSHE institutions, including NSC

• Service to Businesses75+ company contacts & 300+ individual contacts made in 6 different regional business sectors since March

“UNLV Means Business” conference • Service to Faculty

4 provisional applications filed since MayIP Committee

• Promote Faculty Research Capabilities • Expand Industry-sponsored Research• Publicize Core Facilities• Integrate Technology Development Across Campus

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Technology Development: Step-by-Step

Commercialization

Communication

IP Committee Evaluation6 Weeks

Initial Evaluation3 Weeks

Application Filed3 Months

First Contact

Response/Input fromPrimary Investigators

Draft Application

*Filing of an application will be expediting if a publication is pending and/or if the Primary Investigators actively work with the Office of Economic Development to move the draft application forward.

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Dr. Schiller and Dr. Strong’s inventive technology offers a way of surgically excising a defective or disease genome from the human genome, reducing the potential for latent release of an active virus or activation of the defective genome.

This extraordinary complex technology was moved from a very preliminary disclosure to filing of a US patent application within 2 months.

Martin Schiller Christy StrongProfessor Postdoctoral Scholar

Faculty Research to Patent ApplicationGenome Surgery for HIV Treatment

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Faculty Research to Patent ApplicationPlasma Treatment to Strengthen Diamonds

Zhiyong Wang William WangProfessor

The physical properties of a diamond are altered by: applying a cationic elemental plasma to a diamond at a plasma temperature of less than 300C; allowing the cationic plasma to chemically bond with atoms in defects within the diamond; and removing the plasma from the diamond.

Grade quality and strength of diamonds are increased, raising the commercial value, especially for industrial diamonds.

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Faculty Research to Patent ApplicationIED DETECTOR

Robert Schill, Jr. Professor

A system and method of reducing the performance characteristics of a detonator of an explosive device having steps of: directing electromagnetic energy at the detonator; continuing direction of the electromagnetic energy at the detonator at a fluence, frequency and duration sufficient to cause Joule heating of a wire within the detonator; and the Joule heating causing a diminution of the electrical transmission capability of the wire sufficient to reduce the performance characteristics of the detonator.

Specially Designed Coil

Nevada Shocker

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More Information

http://www.unlv.edu/research/economic-development

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