The Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2022-23 SPARK Technology Commercialization Fund Program.<\/p>\n
Five recipients were selected for internal funding through the program. They include researchers from UConn and UConn Health.<\/p>\n
SPARK supports innovative proof-of-concept studies seeking to translate research discoveries into products, processes, and other commercial applications. The program\u2019s primary goal is advancing primary faculty inventions toward the market, where they can have a positive impact for UConn, society, and Connecticut\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n
The 2022-23 awardees competed for funding in a highly selective process. Congratulations to the following:<\/p>\n
Laijun<\/strong>\u00a0Lai<\/strong>, UConn,\u00a0<\/em>Department of Allied Health Sciences Raman<\/strong>\u00a0Bahal<\/strong>, UConn,\u00a0<\/em>Department of Pharmaceutical Science Eugene<\/strong>\u00a0Pinkhassik<\/strong>, UConn,\u00a0<\/em>Department of Chemistry Ali<\/strong>\u00a0Tamayol<\/strong>, UConn Health,\u00a0<\/em>Department of Biomedical Engineering Luyi<\/strong>\u00a0Sun<\/strong>, UConn,\u00a0<\/em>Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering For more information about SPARK, visit the\u00a0program website<\/a>. Five researchers were awarded internal funding through the competitive program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":166,"featured_media":153019,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2296,1866,2226,2076,1864,179],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2381],"class_list":["post-187151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allied-health-sciences","category-engr","category-clas","category-research","category-pharm","category-uconn-health"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-08 00:57:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187152,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187151\/revisions\/187152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/153019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187151"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=187151"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=187151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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