UTA Awards Researchers to Bring Ideas to Market

(from left to right) Georgios Alexandrakis, PhD, MS, Wei Chen, PhD, MS and Muthu Wijesundara, PhD

The Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation at The University of Texas at Arlington has granted three Commercialization Gap Fund (CGF) awards totaling more than $200,000 to help faculty members further develop new technology.

“Our faculty have so many great ideas, many of which have been patented,” Kate C. Miller, vice president for research and innovation said. “The idea behind these grant funds is to help our researchers further develop their innovative technology to prove up those concepts so that they can ultimately be licensed and produce income for the inventory and the University.”