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Rutgers Innovation Awards

The Rutgers Innovation Awards recognize researchers who have translated world-class research into an invention/innovation that would benefit society.

Congratulations to the innovation awardees and patent awardees!

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Award

Name

Research Team

Rutgers CLU

School

Undergraduate Student Innovation Award

SageTech

Claudia Santacruz, Rut Mehta, Brianna Lischy, Oliver Kisza, Deshik Iyengar

Rutgers-New Brunswick

School of Arts and Sciences

Graduate Student Innovation Award

Haydee Pacheco

Haydee Pacheco

Rutgers-New Brunswick

School of Engineering

Postdoctoral Fellow Innovation Award

Cameron Love

Cameron Love

Rutgers-New Brunswick

School of Arts and Sciences

Early Career Innovator Award

Pingping Hou

Pingping Hou

Rutgers Health

Rutgers New Jersey Medical School

Rutgers Startup Award

Queens Carbon, Inc.

Daniel Kopp, Richard Riman

Rutgers-New Brunswick

School of Engineering

Social Innovation Award

Ruo-Qian Wang

Ruo-Qian Wang, WHIRL Lab

Rutgers-New Brunswick

School of Engineering

Artificial Intelligence / Digital Innovation Award

Eric Wengrowski

Eric Wengrowski, Kristin Dana, Matthew Purri

Rutgers-New Brunswick

School of Engineering, School of Graduate Studies

Physical Sciences & Engineering Innovation Award

Jing Li

Jing Li, Kun Zhu

Rutgers-New Brunswick

School of Arts and Sciences

Health Sciences / Biomedical Innovation Award

Daniela Staquicini

Daniela Staquicini

Rutgers Health, Rutgers-Newark

Rutgers New Jersey Medical School

Agriculture Innovation Award

James White

James White, Kathryn Kingsley, Kurt Kowalski, Xiaoquin Chang, Matthew Elmore, Ivelisse Irizarry

Rutgers-New Brunswick

School of Environmental and Biological Sciences

Aaron Mazzeo
Abraham Pinter
Adam Gormley
Alan Goldman
Alok Choudhary
Amit Singla
Angela Coe
Anna Voordeckers
Arash Hatefi
Ashutosh Goel
Arya Tewatia
Athina Petropulu
Bernard Kear
Bruce Haffty
Chaoyang Xue
Charles Gatt
Daniel Murnick
David Alland
David Salas De La Cruz
David Domingo
David Perlin
David Shreiber
Diana Vargas-Gold
Dimitris Metaxas
Edmond LaVoie
Ekaterina Semenova
Eva Andrei
Fred Kramer
Fuat Celik
Gary Aston-Jones
German Drazer
Glen Atlas
Guohong Li
Hao Lin
Huixin He
James Simon
Jeffrey Boyd
Jeffrey Laskin
Jeffrey Zahn
Jennifer Lynch-Branzoi
Jerry Shan
Jing Li
Joachim Kohn
Joel Freundlich
John Nosher
Joseph Goffreda
Konstantin Severinov
Kristin Dana
Kun Zhu
Lawrence Williams
Longqin Hu
Maria Gennaro
Mark DeGuzman
Mark Siracusa
Martin Yarmush
Maxine Strickland
Mehdi Javanmard
Michael Dunn
Olga Garbuzenko
Patrick Shafto
Randy Gaugler
Raphael Mannino
Richard Ebright
Richard Howard
Richard Martin
Salvatore Marras
Sanjay Tyagi
Scott Kachlany
Shengkan (Victor) Jin
Stephen Anderson
Stephen Tse
Sudarsun Kannan
Suzie Chen
Tamara Minko
Tewodros (Teddy) Asefa
Thomas Nosker
Tomasz Imielinski
Umer Hassan
Wade Trappe
Wei Lu
Yingying (Jennifer) Chen
Yon Ebright
Zoltan Szekely
Ilya Raskin
Peter Nitzsche
Thomas Orton
Stacy Bonos
William Meyer

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