The University of California, Santa Barbara is now marketing a novel method to determine the proper formulation of chemical permeation enhancers to dramatically increase the transephithelial permeability of therapeutic compounds delivered through mucous membranes, as well as novel formulations based on those methods. By increasing permeability, smaller dosages of the therapeutic are required, decreasing toxicity.

A Non-Confidential Description of the technology is available at this link: http://www.industry.ucsb.edu/technologies/details/2008-365

For more information about the above technology, please contact Franco Caporale at 805-893-2073 or caporale@research.ucsb.edu

The Troland annual research awards of $50,000 given to each of two recipients to recognize unusual achievement and to further their research within the broad spectrum of experimental psychology – go to Miguel P. Eckstein, associate professor, Vision and Image Understanding Laboratory, department of psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara, and to Isabel Gauthier, associate professor of psychology, department of psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville. Eckstein was honored “for sophisticated theoretical analysis and modeling that address fundamental issues in perception and cognition and their application to the practical problems of medical imaging.” Gauthier was chosen “for seminal experiments on the role of visual expertise in the recognition of complex objects including faces and for exploration of brain areas activated by this recognition.” The Troland Research Awards were established by a bequest from Leonard T. Troland and have been presented since 1984.

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The University of California, Santa Barbara is now marketing a new method of using hollow gold nanospheres (HGN) located within or tethered to liposomes, together with pulsed near infrared (NIR) laser irradiation, to create the rapid release of a therapeutic agent from liposomes to the targeted area. In situ tests have demonstrated that this method ruptures over 90% of the liposomes in approximately 10 seconds, without use of toxic reagents or the need to heat large scale areas.

A Non-Confidential Description of the technology is available at this link: http://www.industry.ucsb.edu/technologies/details/2008-435

For more information about the above technology, please contact Franco Caporale at 805-893-2073 or caporale@research.ucsb.edu

The University of California, Santa Barbara is actively seeking a company interested in commercializing a series of novel red phosphors that are based on vanadate garnets. The unique color characteristics as well as the high chemical stability make them interesting candidates for red phosphors in the next generation of UV LED-based white lamps. This new technology is patent pending and currently available for licensing.

A Non-Confidential Description of the technology is available at this link: UC Case 2008-080 Non-Confidential Description

For more information about the above technology, please contact Franco Caporale at 805-893-2073 or caporale@research.ucsb.edu

The University of California, Santa Barbara is now marketing a new device that will allow the use of commercial LED light sources in existing halogen lamp housing. With this device, a microscope company could offer a light source for fluorescence imaging at a fraction of the cost and without investing in new optomechanics.

A Non-Confidential Description of the technology is available at this link: UC Case 2008-079 Non-Confidential Description

For more information about the above technology, please contact Franco Caporale at 805-893-2073 or caporale@research.ucsb.edu

The University of California, Santa Barbara is actively seeking a company interested in commercializing a new system called Envisor, for automatic construction of environmental maps. The Envisor system allows users with standard hardware to quickly acquire useful information about their environment, enabling experimentation with more advanced augmented reality technique. The two main contributions of Envisor are a modular orientation tracking algorithm that provides configurable, long-term and drift-free tracking, and a technique for using this tracked video feed to automatically create environment maps online.

A Non-Confidential Description of the technology is available at this link: UC Case 2008-061 - Non-Confidential Description

For more information about the above technology, please contact Franco Caporale at 805-893-2073 or caporale@research.ucsb.edu