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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