UVDF Awards
2010
- Promotion Fund grant to create marketing materials for the new documentary Guilty Except for Insanity. This documentary has had regional showings to great acclaim, and IIP has worked with an agent to pitch the documentary to broadcast and other networks. The funds allowed for the creation of a professionally produced “trailer” for the movie, which now helps demonstrate the movie’s important analysis of the medical treatment received by convicted criminals who plead “insanity”.
- Promotion Fund grant to support travel to limited companies to demonstrate a patented technology in computer security, which has garnered interest from e-mail providers and other companies.
- Promotion Fund grant to identify and evaluate avenues of distribution and additional partners for Learner Web, a PSU based online system to help adult learners navigate complex systems and learn. While this system is successfully used by thousands of users here and abroad and currently generates licensing income, the grant will aid in identifying other potential markets and users.
- Development Fund grant to help construct a bench-top prototype to showcase a new kind of microscope to industry partners and collaborators. The new device and methodology is geared towards imaging material and fault detection. The project has received feedback from microscope manufacturers and has an allowed patent with more forthcoming soon.
2009
- Development Fund grant to perform initial proof of concept and animal studies for compounds with the potential to be drug candidates for treating heart arrhythmias. The data will support additional grant filings and the formation of a start-up company focused on the further development of the compounds.
- Development Fund grant to support the development of a field ready prototype of a low cost, fast, and accurate sensor for measuring nitrogen dioxide and other gases. The prototype may in turn support the formation of a start-up company focused on the further development of these sensors.
