At the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) meeting in February, UTSA’s Office of Commercialization and Innovation (OCI) met with many potential industry partners who are actively looking to license technology. OCI made an effort to understand what kinds of technologies companies were looking to add to their portfolios, and bring that information back to UTSA. Below you will find a list of technologies and areas of research interest to potential technology licensing partners. If you feel you have recent innovations related to these areas please contact the Office of Commercialization and Innovation at (210) 458-6963 to file a technology disclosure form.
Areas of Interest
Cancer
- Prostate, thyroid and renal cancer cell lines
- Pancreatic and brain cancer –esp. pediatric
- Drug resistant cancers
- Cell lines with mutations in cancer driver genes
- Cell lines containing a p.G12R mutation in KRAS
Stem Cells
- ES and iPS Cell lines
- Technologies for culturing, differentiation, use in screening, etc…
Research Tools
- Methods for measuring cell signaling
- Methods for assessing cell health and functionality
Propagation, Preservation & Packaging
- Improved cell culture systems, media formulations, matrices, scaffolds, etc…
- Improved formulation and stabilization technologies for cells-frozen and RT
- New designs or devices for providing materials to researchers in improved user-friendly formats
Infectious Diseases
- New type strain isolates
- Antibiotic- resistant strains
- Isolates from emerging infectious agents
Food Safety
- Strains relevant to outbreaks of important food borne pathogens of Norovirus, Toxoplasma, Salmonella, Staphylococcus, Clostridium
- New or emerging agents
Research Tools
- Methods for measuring cell signaling
- Methods for assessing cell health and functionality
Propagation, Preservation & Packaging
- Improved cell culture systems, media formulations, matrices, scaffolds, etc…
- Improved formulation and stabilization technologies for cells-frozen and RT
- New designs or devices for providing materials to researchers in improved user-friendly formats
Research Reagents (mAbs, Recombinant Proteins) & Assays (RUO/IVD/ASR)
- Mouse/human/Non-human primate cell surface markers (CD markers)
- Mouse/human/Non-human primate intracellular proteins (transcription factors)
- Stem cell markers ( iPSC,ESC, pluripotency, partial differentiation, differentiation)
- Cell function (Mitochondria, autophagy, senescence, etc…)
- Novel (mix & read/homogeneous) assays for protein detection and/or measuring enzymatic activity
- Reagents to validate reprogramming state for iPSC
- Novel bead-based assays
- Biologically-active recombinant protins/growth factor for stem cell analysis
- Novel diagnostic assays and biomarkers ( particulary hematologic cancers, autoimmune, inflammation and infectious diseases)
Fluorescent Dyes
- Novel fluorescent dyes
- Novel fluorescent probes
- Novel/new applications for fluorescent dyes/probes
- Platforms to label live cells with fluorescent tag without using protein or plasmid
Small Molecules
- Caspase inhibitors
- Stem cell reprogramming/differentiation
Platform Technologies
- Platforms to measure RNA in live cells for subsequent sorting/analysis
- Novel conjugation chemistries/methods for linking labels to antibodies or proteins
- Novel, low cost instrumentation for cell sorting/cell analysis
- Novel applications/methods for applying flow cytometry in new fields (i.e. epigenetics, cell theraphy, autophagy)
- Novel light sources/ light capture technologies for imaging and/or flow cytometry
- Genomic Platform technologies for single cell analysis (DNA, RNA)
Miscellaneous
- Next generation sequencing –sample preparation
- Big data analytics
- Nucleic acid detection
- Animal health
