University of Alberta: 2021 Innovation Awards Recipients
May 17-20 is Canadian Innovation Week, an event recognizing Canadian innovation from coast to coast. The university is proud to participate in this initiative with its innovation generator celebration—spotlighting some examples of how our research and innovation is helping drive change and shape the future. We are also launching our Innovation Awards celebration.
These awards were created by TEC Edmonton in 2013 to celebrate the university’s annual commercialization achievements—specifically US patents granted, and spinoff companies created. Now that technology transfer services have moved back to the university, it seemed fitting to continue these awards, while beginning to expand to highlight other U of A entrepreneurial achievements. This year, for the first time, we include our eHUB student entrepreneur awards.
The Innovation Awards are one way of publicly recognizing how our faculty and students are helping to create and drive economic and social advancements through entrepreneurial and commercial activities. The virtual awards event, taking place May 20, 3:00-4:00 pm, will celebrate the university’s innovation culture and recognize U of A innovators and entrepreneurs who were granted a US patent with a commercial partner and/or created a spin-off company during 2019-2021, as well as celebrating student entrepreneurs with eHUB awards.
On behalf of the Vice-President Research and Innovation and the university, I would like to congratulate all the recipients listed below.
Deborah James
Associate Vice President (Innovation and Commercialization)
Awards for US Patents
Muhammad Arshad
David Broadhurst
Robert Campbell
Jie Chen
Lingyun Chen
Ratmir Derda
Wen Fu
Jed Harrison
Darren Hockman
Michael Houghton
Jack Jhamandas
Cedric Laborde-Boutet
Raymond Lai
Abdolamir Landi
John Law
Michael Logan
Ana Lopez-Campistrous
William McCaffrey
Scott McKay
Todd McMullen
Harald Nothaft
Gavin Oudit
Rania Soudy
Christine Szymanski
Richard Thompson
Lorne Tyrrell
Aman Ullah
John Vederas
Daniel Ferrer Vinals
Haili Wang
David Williams
David Wishart
Gane Wong