Technology Maturation Awards
The Technology Maturation Award (TMA) offers the opportunity to increase the marketability of technologies already marketed by the George Washington University (GW) Technology Commercialization Office (TCO) for their promising commercial potential and societal impact. TMA supports commercial potential demonstration projects for academic research outputs in any science and engineering discipline. This demonstration is achieved through proof-of-concept, prototyping, technology development and/or scale-up work. Successful TMA projects generate technology validation necessary to attract experienced licensees.
Type of Award: Grant or Continuing Grant
Estimated Number of Awards: up to 5 per year
TMA projects will be funded up to $50,000 for 6-12 months per award
Who May Submit Proposals? GW faculty inventors with a GW-owned invention available for licensing. If you have a new idea, disclose it to TCO before applying for this award.
Limit on Number of Proposals per PI or Co-PI: 2
Deadline: Future application deadline to be announced.
Winners of Technology Maturation Awards
2022 Winners
System to Test Treatments Against Drug Resistant Canine Hookworms
John Hawdon, Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine, School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Vaccine for Stroke Prevention
Zurab Nadareishvili, Associate Professor, Department of Neurology and Rehabilitation Medicine, School of Medicine and Health Sciences; Rohan Fernandes, Director of Biomaterials and Nanotechnology Facility
Air-Q: Indoor Air Quality Sensing and Mitigation
Mark Reeves, Professor, Department of Physics, Columbian College of Arts and Sciences; Rahul Simha, Professor, School of Engineering & Applied Science; Chen Zeng, Professor, Department of Physics, Columbian College of Arts & Sciences
Laser Additive Manufacturing of a Thermoelectric Energy Conversion System
Saniya LeBlanc, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, School of Engineering & Applied Sciences
2021 Winners
Professor Mona Zaghloul and Professor Jeanne A. Jordan
Mona Zaghloul, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, School of Engineering & Applied Sciences
Jeanne A. Jordan, Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Milken Institute School of Public Health
Inhee Chung, Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, and the George Washington University (GW) Cancer Center
Assistant Professor Alejandro Villagra and Postdoctoral Researcher Satish Noonepalle
Alejandro Villagra, Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Satish Noonepalle, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Wenge Zhu, Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, and the George Washington University (GW) Cancer Center