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	Past and Current KSEF R&D Excellence Award Recipients Round (#Awards) Date RDE-001 (32) 2-1-02 RDE-002 (11) 12-12-02 RDE-003 (32) 5-5-03 RDE-004 (9) 10-10-03 RDE-005 (31) 5-20-04 RDE-006 (11) 8-4-04 RDE-007 (20) 4-12-05 RDE-008 (31) 10-25-05 RDE-009 (16) 12-12-06 RDE-010 (31) 10-24-07
	Past and Current SBIR/STTR Phase Zero and Double Zero Award Recipients 88 awards totaling $289,781 have been awarded to date.
	Homeland Security Emerging Technologies (EKU & KSEF jointly funded Awards) Two awards totaling over $175,000 have been made for R&D on a UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) and an Emergency Response System

*Emerging Ideas - Biosciences*
Names of Principal Investigator (PI) and Co-PI(s)	PI’s Department	PI’s Affiliation	Research Project Title	Amount Awarded ($)
Lisa Vaillancourt , Pradeep Kachroo	Plant Pathology	University of Kentucky	Understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying interactions of plants with hemibiotrophic pathogens	$101,634

George Wagner	Agronomy	University of Kentucky	Development of a System for Producing Highly Purified Proteins on the Plant Surface	$50,000

*Emerging Ideas - Environmental and Energy Technologies*
Names of Principal Investigator (PI) and Co-PI(s)	PI’s Department	PI’s Affiliation	Research Project Title	Amount Awarded ($)
Michael Kalinski	Civil Engineering	University of Kentucky	Predicting Settlement in Mine Spoil Valley Fills in Eastern Kentucky	$57,249

Michael Jay , Michael Jay	Chemical and Materials Engineering	University of Kentucky	Materials Systems for Removal of Steroidal Estrogen from Surface Waters	$65,353

*Emerging Ideas - Human Health and Development*
Names of Principal Investigator (PI) and Co-PI(s)	PI’s Department	PI’s Affiliation	Research Project Title	Amount Awarded ($)
Eugene Bruce	Center for Biomedical Engineering	University of Kentucky	Novel Analyses of Human Electroencephalograms for Detection of Brain Injury	$63,973

*Emerging Ideas - Information Technology and Communications*
Names of Principal Investigator (PI) and Co-PI(s)	PI’s Department	PI’s Affiliation	Research Project Title	Amount Awarded ($)
Jun Zhang	Computer Science	University of Kentucky	Support Vector Machine Approach to Matrix Condition Number Prediction	$64,612

*Emerging Ideas - Materials Science and Advanced Manufacturing*
Names of Principal Investigator (PI) and Co-PI(s)	PI’s Department	PI’s Affiliation	Research Project Title	Amount Awarded ($)
J. Zach Hilt	Chemical and Materials Engineering	University of Kentucky	Novel Method for Synthesis and Integration of Intelligent Polymer Networks with X,Y, and Z Spatial Control at the Micro- and Nanoscale	$99,785

Michel Jabbour	Mathematics	University of Kentucky	The Role of Chemistry, Anisotropy, and Electromigration in the Epitaxial Growth of Multispecies Crystals	$63,944

*Emerging Technologies - Environmental and Energy Technologies*
Names of Principal Investigator (PI) and Co-PI(s)	PI’s Department	PI’s Affiliation	Research Project Title	Amount Awarded ($)
Mark Crocker	Center for Applied Energy Research	University of Kentucky	Development of Novel COS Adsorbents and Hydrolysis Catalysts for Clean Hydrogen Production	$49,997

*Emerging Technologies - Human Health and Development*
Names of Principal Investigator (PI) and Co-PI(s)	PI’s Department	PI’s Affiliation	Research Project Title	Amount Awarded ($)
Heinz Kohler , Sybille Muller		Immpheron Inc	Preclinical Evaluation of an Antibody Drug Against Atherosclerosis	$49,830

*Emerging Technologies - Information Technology and Communications*
Names of Principal Investigator (PI) and Co-PI(s)	PI’s Department	PI’s Affiliation	Research Project Title	Amount Awarded ($)
Zongming Fei	Department of Computer Science	University of Kentucky	Multimedia Streaming Using Overlay Networks	$68,062

*Emerging Technologies - Materials Science and Advanced Manufacturing*
Names of Principal Investigator (PI) and Co-PI(s)	PI’s Department	PI’s Affiliation	Research Project Title	Amount Awarded ($)
Dusan Sekulic	Center for Manufacturing	University of Kentucky	M4 aluminum joining technology	$90,969

Shi-Yu Wu , Chakram Jayanthi	Physics	University of Louisville	A Theoretical Study of Structural and Electronic Properties of SiC Nanowires	$88,609

Emerging Ideas - Biosciences

Emerging Ideas - Environmental and Energy Technologies

Emerging Ideas - Human Health and Development

Emerging Ideas - Information Technology and Communications

Emerging Ideas - Materials Science and Advanced Manufacturing

Emerging Technologies - Environmental and Energy Technologies

Emerging Technologies - Human Health and Development

Emerging Technologies - Information Technology and Communications

Emerging Technologies - Materials Science and Advanced Manufacturing