University of Utah Health professors Thomas (韦德) 爱上什么 and 贝拉姆康达·基肖尔，M.D., Ph.D., have been named 高级成员 by the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). They are part of the 2023 class of 高级成员 made up of 95 of the foremost emerging academic inventors identified by NAI’s Member Institutions.
爱上什么 and 基肖尔 join Ashutosh Tiwari, Ph.D., an engineering professor at the U, as the university’s three NAI 高级成员. 蒂瓦里于2021年当选. NAI 高级成员 are active faculty, 科学家们, and administrators from NAI Member Institutions who have demonstrated remarkable innovation producing technologies that have brought, 或者渴望带来, real impact on the welfare of society. They also have growing success in 专利, 许可, 和商业化, while educating and mentoring the next generation of inventors.
韦德 爱上什么
爱上什么, an orthopaedics research professor and Louis S. Peery, M.D. Orthopaedic Innovation Center (LSP OIC) executive director, has started and sold five companies in the medical device industry with a focus on the orthopaedics and spine markets and holds over 250 issued U.S. 专利.
“My entire career focus has been on innovating new medical device technologies that reduce pain and suffering resulting from injury or disease,爱上什么说. “In addition to being a ‘serial entrepreneur,’ I have been fortunate to have the opportunity to be a ‘serial innovator,’ which has led to over a dozen commercial orthopaedic surgical systems that are in clinical use around the world today.”
LSP OIC和爱上什么, with his history as an entrepreneur combined with his experience at the U starting in 2019, are excellent resources to U faculty members and students looking to “understand the process of translating from early-stage ideas to something that's clinically and commercially successful for medical devices,爱上什么说.
“The National Academy of Inventors fosters innovation in academic settings,爱上什么说. “Their membership works to increase the level of innovation at universities, so being part of that is really appealing to me.”
贝拉姆康达·基肖尔，M.D., Ph.D.
基肖尔, an adjunct professor of internal medicine (nephrology), 研究过生理学, 病理生理学, and experimental therapeutics of the kidney, 肥胖, 和相关系统40年. His career has spanned the globe from India and Japan to Belgium and the United States, including four years at the intramural research program of the National Heart, 肺, 血液研究所, and two decades as faculty in the Department of Internal Medicine at University of Utah Health and principal investigator in the 退伍军人事务部 Salt Lake City Health Care System.
Recently, 基肖尔’s career branched off to a new path—entrepreneurship. In addition to his adjunct position at the U, 他是首席执行官, 总统, 联合创始人, 和ePurines的CSO, a startup located in the U’s 研究 Park. 基肖尔’s patented technologies—commercialized through ePurines—offer innovative purinergic signaling-based therapies for 肥胖, 代谢综合征, 还有各种肾, 肝, 心, and lung diseases with a target patient population of 500 million to 1 billion globally.
When 基肖尔 graduated from medical school in 1976, he spent barely six months practicing medicine before deciding to return to medical school to research the kidney. “That was a very tough decision because you’re leaving a bright and secure future,” he said. “But my 心 was in the science from the beginning, and somehow I could not be happy sitting in the clinic and looking at patients.”
Being named an NAI Senior Member is “a rewarding recognition” that his choice to continue his research was correct. “It is a culmination of 40 years of my research life,基肖尔说, 谁相信激情, purpose-oriented life is far superior to an ambitious, 拥有不断进取的生活.
This latest class of NAI 高级成员, 迄今为止规模最大的, demonstrates a shared commitment to celebrating the diversity of the academic ecosystem, with 48 outstanding female and/or minority academic inventors included. Hailing from 50 NAI member institutions and research universities across the nation, this impressive class are named inventors on more than 1,200发行U.S. 专利, with many of those being licensed and commercialized.
“I’m delighted to see how this program has expanded in just a couple years’ time,” said Paul R. Sanberg， FNAI总裁. “It really reflects the shift we are seeing at universities where invention is not only being recognized but prioritized as well.”
The 2023 class of 高级成员 will be celebrated at NAI年度会议, Diversifying Innovation for a Strong Economy and a Sustainable Future, taking place June 25-27, 2023, in Washington, D.C.