Partnerships

Batten Disease – neuronal ceroid lipofuscinoses (NCLs) – is a group of rare and fatal neurogenerative genetic disorders in young children whose symptoms were untreatable until Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and the Rutgers Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine researchers Peter Lobel and David Sleat discovered the disease’s genetic cause in 1997. Their groundbreaking discovery and partnership with the Office for Research (OfR) Technology Transfer team and biopharmaceutical company BioMarin led to Brineura, the first life-extending treatment for young patients.

Steg.AI, a startup, was founded by double Rutgers graduate Eric Wengrowski and School of Engineering professor Kristin Dana, PhD. The company is based on information security software technology that was developed at Rutgers called light field messaging, which according to Wengrowski is “an advanced forensic water marking technique that adds information to files like images, video, PDFs, GIFs, etc., that is invisible to [people] but visible to [Steg.AI’s] algorithms or even a camera. This information is essentially embedded into these files as
forensic tracers."

The Rutgers Agrivoltaics Program (RAP), a project at Rutgers focused on “agrivoltaics” (also known as “dual-use” solar), is showing that a farm’s energy needs and expenses can be lowered through the use of solar panels in fields, while at the same time allowing the sun to nurture crops planted beneath those panels.

Born out of Rutgers research and nurtured through university–industry collaboration, Queens Carbon exemplifies how academic innovation can drive both climate solutions and economic growth.

As one of America’s longest serving and renowned land-grant institutions, Rutgers University empowers food producers worldwide with cutting-edge scientific expertise. The university’s acclaimed “Jersey Roots, Global Reach” initiative shines through in its exceptional partnership with the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), a vast island nation in the North Pacific.

In an effort to expand and enhance New Jersey’s research and innovation ecosystem, Rutgers Office for Research’s Innovation Ventures (now Technology Transfer) will participate in a technology transfer partnership with the New Jersey Association of State Colleges and Universities (NJASCU).