Detweiler is the co-founder and co-director of the NIMBUS lab and the co-founder of Drone Amplified.Â
To be elected as a senior member of NAI, candidates must possess at least one United States patent that has been licensed or commercialized or have been issued at least five patents, according to the NAI.Â
There have been multiple patents issued for the projects worked on by Detweiler at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Detweiler said. Those patented works include technology that collects water samples from the air via drone, Detweiler said.Â
Drone Amplified, for which Detweiler has served as CEO since its founding in 2015, has helped develop and commercialize a technology named IGNIS that allows firefighters to more safely prevent and fight wildfires, according to Detweiler.Â
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An artificial platelet technology designed to help the body heal from traumatic injury is just one of the innovations that has earned Fowler School of Engineering Dean Andrew Lyon membership in the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).
Lyon, an internationally recognized chemist, is among 63 of the world’s best emerging academic inventors in the 2021 class of NAI Senior Members.
Known for his research on the fundamental physics of colloidal hydrogels, Lyon and his Chapman University research lab colleagues and students explore the possibilities of polymer nanoparticles. His research and commercialization efforts have yielded five biomaterials patents for clinical medicine.
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Arizona State University has announced the appointment of Jeffrey Kordower as the founding director of the ASU-Banner Neurodegenerative Disease Research Center and endowed chair as The Charlene and J. Orin Edson Distinguished Director at the Biodesign Institute.
For more than 30 years, Kordower has been a faculty member at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, where he was the Alla V. and Solomon Jesmer Professor of Neurological Sciences. His pathbreaking investigations into the underpinnings of neurodegenerative disease have made him a leader in the field and his ambitious plans for the NDRC promise to make the facility an internationally recognized center of excellence in this highly diverse research space.
Three UH Engineers Named to National Academy of Inventors
Hien Nguyen, Jeffrey Rimer and Gangbing Song Elected to Senior Member Class of 2021
Hien Nguyen is an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering.
Jeffrey Rimer is Abraham E. Dukler Endowed Chair, William A. Brookshire Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.
Gangbing Song is Moores Professor of Mechanical Engineering.
Three University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering researchers have been named Senior Members of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) for 2021.
Hien Nguyen, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering; Jeffrey Rimer, Abraham E. Dukler Endowed Chair, William A. Brookshire Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; and Gangbing Song, Moores Professor of Mechanical Engineering, are among 61 academic inventors from around the country chosen for the prestigious honor for their remarkable innovation-producing technologies and growing success in patent