Inventor of the Year Award Winners

Winner of 2018 Inventor of the Year Award Heading link
The Inventor of the Year Award honors an outstanding inventor or team of inventors at University of Illinois at Chicago who have made a contribution to the development of intellectual property that significantly impacts their field and society. The award is given based on the criteria of creativity, novelty, and the commercial benefit to society.
The winner of 2018 Inventor of the Year Award will be announced in December 2018 and celebrated at the Researcher and Scholar of the Year Awards to be held February 6, 2019.
Inventor of the Year Application & Instructions
Past Winners of The Inventor of the Year Award Heading link
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Past Winners of The Inventor of the Year Award
2017
- Sandeep Jain, Inventor of the Year, College of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
2016
- Brian Kay, Inventor of the Year, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- Gregory Thatcher, Innovator of the Year, College of Pharmacy
2014
- Constantine Megaridis, Inventor of the Year, College of Engineering, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
- Mark Rasenick, Innovator of the Year, College of Medicine, Department of Physiology and Biophysics
2013
- Sudip Mazumder, Inventor of the Year, College of Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Alan Feinerman, Innovator of the Year, College of Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
2012
- Mahnaz Shahidi, Inventor of the year, College of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
- Craig Niederberger, Innovator of the Year, College of Medicine, Department of Urology
2011
- Alan Feinerman, Inventor of the Year, College of Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
2010
- David Carley, Inventor of the Year, College of Nursing, Department of Biobehavioral Health Sciences, College of Medicine, Department of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep and Allergy, Department of Pharmacology
- Miodrag Radulovacki, Inventor of the Year, College of Medicine, Department of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep and Allergy, Department of Pharmacology
2009
- Hayat Onyuksel, Inventor of the Year, College of Pharmacy, Department of Biopharmaceutical Sciences
2002
- Fady Charbel, Inventor of the Year, College of Medicine, Department of Neurosurgery
2001
- Faydor Litvin, Inventor of the Year, College of Engineering, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
2000
- Igor Roninson, Inventor of the Year, College of Medicine, Department of Molecular Genetics
- Charles Rhodes, Inventor of the Year, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Department of Physics
- John Pezzuto, Inventor of the Year, College of Pharmacy, Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy
- Norman Farnsworth, Inventor of the Year, College of Pharmacy, Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy
- Thomas DeFanti, Inventor of the Year, College of Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Daniel Sandin, Inventor of the Year, College of Architecture & the Arts, School of Arts and Design
- Ananda Chakrabarty, Inventor of the Year, College of Medicine, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
- David Boyce, Inventor of the Year, College of Engineering, Department of Civil and Materials Engineering
1991
- Donald Chambers, Inventor of the Year, College of Medicine, Department of Physiology and Biophysics
1986
- Abe Widra, Inventor of the Year, College of Medicine, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
1985
- John Tsibris, Inventor of the Year, College of Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
- William Spellacy, Inventor of the Year, College of Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology