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The University of Texas System
The Texas Ignition Fund (TIF)
1st Round Grant Awardees --  April 1, 2008

 

Institution

 

Title

 

Primary Investigator

 

UT Arlington/
UT Southwetern Medical Center Dallas

 

BEST™ GERD Batteryless Endoluminal Sensing Telemeter for Gastro Refluxed Detection  

Chiao, J.C. Ph.D.
Tang, Shou-Jiang M.D. (UTSMC)
Spechler, Stuart M.D. (UTSMC)
Tibbals, H. Fred  (UTSMC)

UT Arlington

Universal & Cost-Effective Surface Texture on Solar Cells

Tao, Meng
Zhou, Weidong

UT Arlington

Liquefaction of TX Lignite to Low-Cost Heavy Crude Oil

Billo, R.E.
Dennis, B.H.
Priest, J.

UT Austin

Algae Bio-Fuel Extraction Process Hebner, Robert

UT Austin

Next Generation Photovoltaics Holliday, B.J.
Jones, R.A.
Cowley, A.H.

UT Austin
UT Health Science Center - San Antonio

 Power Gen for AICD Pacemakers Chen, Shaochen

UT Austin

Chem Production by Targetron Manipulation Ellington, Andrew Lambowitz, Alan

UT Medical Branch Galveston

Smart IV Pump for Fluid Resuscitation Kramer, George C.

UT Medical Branch Galveston

Dry Powder Pulmonary Drug Delivery Kraft, ER
Enkhbaatar, P. MD, Ph.D.

UT El Paso

Rapid Manufacturing of Integrated Sys w/Embedded Elec Devices Wicker, Ryan PhD

UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

in situ protein production using high-throughput micro-electroporation device Cooper, Laurence J.N., MD, PhD

UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Final Pre-IND studies of ALIIS Dickey, Burton MD

UT Southwestern Medical Center Dallas

Integrated Patient Bed System DiMaio, Michael MD

UT Southwestern Medical Center Dallas

Xanapath Garner, Harold PhD

 

 

 

 

The University of Texas System
The Texas Ignition Fund (TIF)
2nd Round Grant Awardees --  June 2 , 2008

 

Institution

 

Title

 

Primary Investigator

 

UT Arlington

 

Prosthetic Skin  

Butler, Zeynep Celik (UTARL)
Butler, Donald P. (UTARL)

UT Austin


Fibrillar Hyaluronic Acid Hydrogels as Engineered Skin Substitute


Schmidt Ph.D., Christine (UTAUS)


UT El Paso


NC1153 is a novel tyrosine kinase inhibitor for the prevention of organ transplant rejection
Kirken Ph.D., Robert


UT Health Science Center - Tyler
Single Chair Urokinase (scuPA) for Prevention of Pleural Loculation


Idell M.D., Ph.D., Steven

UT Southwestern Medical Center Dallas


Synthesis & in vitro/in vivo evaluation of the Vacuolar ATPase inhibitor Palmerolide as novel anticancer agent 		De Brabander, Jef